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Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by mdaniel »

delfinom wrote: post #14
rscho wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, doctors are safe. Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does.

Nope. Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days. These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give…

Sounds good; if all these pro-AI folks could get it to complete the insurance paperwork that'd be swell. Actually, come to think of it, do that for the paperwork from both sides, doctor and patient, and eliminate and entire class of leaches upon humanity

I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by BobbyJo »

lvl155 wrote: post #17

Looking forward to next few years when we can finally abstract away all the back-end techs.

We ain't even solved garbage collection yet, and you think "back end systems" are going to abstracted away in the next few years?

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by rscho »

delfinom wrote: post #14
rscho wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, doctors are safe. Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does.

Nope. Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days. These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give…

Except the tech to do that is not there, and we're quite far from it. It's one thing to have a robot write text, it's a whole other thing to have a robot perform at human level in medical procedures. Not happening tomorrow.

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by rscho »

mdaniel wrote: post #21
delfinom wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days. These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give…

Sounds good; if all these pro-AI folks could get it to complete the insurance paperwork that'd be swell. Actually, come to think of it, do that for the paperwork from both sides, doctor and patient, and eliminate and entire class of leaches upon humanity I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful

Don't laugh too quickly, because what you describe is already happening: models are used to design processes allowing insurance corps to deny claims optimally, while on the other side models write your claims. If I were you, I wouldn't be laughing. If you are laughing, then you don't see where this is going to take us.

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by tyre »

mdaniel wrote: post #21
delfinom wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. Healthcare megacorps are buying up independent practices like crazy. All because doctors can't keep up with the bullshit IT required for insurance, state mandates, etc and that's in addition to the insanity of even renting commercial real estate for an office these days. These megacorps set quotas and push doctors to nickel and dime like crazy. They sure as shit will spend the money to find robots that can give…

Sounds good; if all these pro-AI folks could get it to complete the insurance paperwork that'd be swell. Actually, come to think of it, do that for the paperwork from both sides, doctor and patient, and eliminate and entire class of leaches upon humanity I'm going to laugh if DOGE eliminates the IRS, but also might be thankful

Join us at https://www.camber.health/ if you want to help fix this.

We build software that automates insurance billing for clinics.

And yes, the sentiment is correct that the burden of insurance encourages consolidation in healthcare. Wrapping that away (i.e. Stripe for healthcare financial infra) lowers the barrier to entrepreneurship.

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by downrightmike »

aragonite wrote: post #16
rscho wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, doctors are safe. Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does.

> Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does That's only true of surgeons :) What if your specialty is nonsurgical (internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, etc)?

Not even true of all surgeons, the ones that make the most money use machines to work on things their hands couldn't do

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by rscho »

downrightmike wrote: post #26
aragonite wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does That's only true of surgeons :) What if your specialty is nonsurgical (internal medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, etc)?

Not even true of all surgeons, the ones that make the most money use machines to work on things their hands couldn't do

Haha. Have you actually ever seen a surgical robot yourself? Your claim is laughable. There is no automation whatsoever in any robot on the market currently.

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by downrightmike »

rscho wrote: post #27
downrightmike wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even true of all surgeons, the ones that make the most money use machines to work on things their hands couldn't do

Haha. Have you actually ever seen a surgical robot yourself? Your claim is laughable. There is no automation whatsoever in any robot on the market currently.

not automation, yet

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by tarruda »

BobbyJo wrote: post #22
lvl155 wrote: post #17

Looking forward to next few years when we can finally abstract away all the back-end techs.

We ain't even solved garbage collection yet, and you think "back end systems" are going to abstracted away in the next few years?

> We ain't even solved garbage collection yet

Can you elaborate on that?

Re: Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS

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Post by sramam »

mdaniel wrote: post #18
rscho wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, doctors are safe. Because they do things. With their hands. That no one else does.

Also, a hallucination for 'SELECT mising_field FROM borgus_tuble' is one thing, hallucinating that taking a dose of Cl Na O along with CH3 CO2 H will cure covid is another thing entirely

This is so funny!

However it can't even be called hallucinating. Imagine the incident "postmortem":

    But the AI was trained on White House press briefings
Made my day...
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