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reubens

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About reubens

https://www.aboutmedicine.com.au/

reuben.schmidt (at) icloud.com

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    There is none. But if the multimodal model is exposed to enough medical knowledge, it may be able to interpret images without specific training

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    Comment #35164677

    It’s hard to imagine this not happening in the next five years. Just depends on who is prepared to take on the radiologists to reduce their fee codes. Speaking as 2nd year radiolog…

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    Comment #34243599

    Yep still gone in Aus. Now I’m not even getting the static

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    Comment #34239906

    Still down in Australia.

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    Really enjoyed your contributions to this thread, thanks. I’m a first year radiology registrar (PGY3) in Australia looking to find others doing interesting work in this domain, if …

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    Comment #31455533

    I think the suggestion was more along the lines of “screening programmes have their place, but their variables should be optimised”

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    Strongly agree. I would be surprised if Elon himself doesn’t realise this, and is just using the phrase as a promotional tool. At the end of the day, he’s just hoping to buy a medi…

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    A lot of comments about the inconvenience to the viewer given this was how we decided whether to watch a video. But I think the dislike ratio will still decide whether a video is s…

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    > I don't think exactly that her doctors were wrong in believing that her death was imminent This is the crux of it. It's hard to predict exactly when people will die. Spend enough…

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    Comment #28149471

    Misinformation, because it encourages a practice that is counter to the recommendations. Because it allows for a conclusion to be drawn that is counter to the recommendations.

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    Comment #28149429

    The quote mentioned that store-bought masks don't prevent infection. He didn't say that they work poorly. The recommendations suggest that having any mask is better than having no …

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    Comment #27208692

    Seeing the exchange price graphs coalesce in red like that... it's a sight to behold. I feel for the vulnerable recent converts.

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    I love your landing page. Accessible, well-balanced... you clearly have garnered a degree of frontend experience to complement the work on the backend

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    Ask HN: What is your experience of collaborating with doctors on IT projects?

    I’m a doctor in Victoria, Australia, beginning collaborations with the IT department in our hospital. I want to know more about the experience of software engineers / sysadmins / s…

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    I love this. Typo FWIW on page 8: "You want to select the print background option and delect the print headers & footers option."

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    From 'View From a Height', by Isaac Asimov: "And just as an organism in the embryonic stages seems to race through the aeons of evolutionary development, from single cell to ultima…

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    "You have to do give them just enough info to get started and hope it catches." That's an important mantra, I think. If you cast the net wide enough, you'll find something they lik…

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    "For other captions, such as “a snail made of harp,” the results are less good, with images that combine snails and harps in odd ways." [0] You try drawing a snail made of harp! Se…

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    Ask HN: How do you approach disagreement with your superior?

    I’m a first year doctor from Victoria, Australia. This is my first year working in a team-based context, making decisions for patient management. I’ve had a number of experiences t…

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    Agree. I found Thinking, Fast and Slow painfully biased

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    > -- The human brain has a very different architecture that lets us learn vastly more efficiently from small amounts of training data. I think this is right, but its misleading per…