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I would be curious to hear your opinion on this when you are closer to the end of your residency program. The way medical education programs are structured is inhumane, no amount of money would convince me to go through it in its current form (assuming a north american perspective). Source: most of my family are in medicine.
Congrats, great to hear a success story. I wish I had the time to do this too. How did you pitch to the publisher so they would find you during development? How did you find a publisher?
How is this different from using Gemini to summarize a video given a YouTube URL?
Re:Perplexity Deep Research on Saturday February 15, 2025 @10:08PM (#43064943)
Perplexity markets itself as a search tool. So even if LLMs are not search engines, Perplexity definitely is trying to be one.
This is a very cool idea!
Re:Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:51PM (#42807399)
I hope you have a fulfilling future ahead of you, instead of being in the Hawaiian jungle and climbing Mt Everest without training like some NPCs out there.
Re:Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:00PM (#42720546)
Still no word on where and how to buy these?
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Friday January 03, 2025 @01:36PM (#42588262)
You can have both (and a cat while you're at it).
Re:I am rich and have no idea what to do on Thursday January 02, 2025 @08:16PM (#42581081)
Have you tried doing things for others instead of yourself?
That's not what I'm insinuating.

https://youtu.be/eDiU2p2uzVI?feature=shared

Hey look, it's Ryan from The Office
Re:Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll on Sunday December 01, 2024 @11:17PM (#42293051)
Glad to see there are more developments in the Vesuvius challenge - it has been one of the most interesting things I've discovered on HN.
What framework/language did you use?
Re:AI-Implanted False Memories on Monday September 02, 2024 @04:45PM (#41428665)
So... AI chat bots are more like humans in conversation than a survey or a list of pre-written questions?

Notably there is no "human control" category.

What's missing here is the risk of the medical device not performing as expected on real patients. These risks are usually mitigated reasonably by medical device manufacturers and designers such that it doesn't matter that "AI medical devices" are not trained on real patient data.

The FDA keeps a database of all adverse events reported by manufacturers or healthcare systems [1], so we can check in a few years if these AI medical devices are causing an uptick of complaints.

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/s...

Re:Let's Write a Reverb on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:08AM (#41300769)
Do you know what the tricks are?
Re:Let's Write a Reverb on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:55AM (#41297193)
NAM uses pytorch for its NN implementation?
Re:Let's Write a Reverb on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:37PM (#41296036)
I have tried NAM but with limited success in modeling some time-based effects (e.g. octave shifting). However, I have not tried to model reverb effects.
Re:Let's Write a Reverb on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:34PM (#41295707)
Is it possible to model reverb using a neural network (e.g. wavenet or LSTMs) for real-time use? Is this what something like Neural DSP is doing under the hood?
It's called tea-tasting but doesn't include Fisher's exact test :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_exact_test?useskin=...

Recently I have found that claude sonnet 3.5 is extremely good at coming up with bash one liners that do what you ask for fantastically.
Re:Ask HN: How do you find new games to play? on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:31PM (#40950060)
You might like Hades!
This is just a regular PhD experience, but the author has made it sound like some special sort of skill only they and a few others know how to master.

Everyone has to turn failed experiments into a successful PhD because they have to finish and graduate by the time funding runs out.

Maybe he programmed in Octave/MATLAB
Re:Why Are Sloths So Slow? on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:37PM (#40448291)
This is a question about survival, not productivity.
Re:PySheets โ€“ Spreadsheet UI for Python on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:15PM (#40190086)
What's the tech stack?
Re:How I Search in 2024 on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:08AM (#40169627)
I have wanted to write a very similar article to this, but regarding the accuracy of various search engines and LLMs in returning factual information quickly. I've done my own quick tests to evaluate all the different engines, and have found that just for factual information retrieval Google is actually better than most other options out there.
This is not unique to the US where MBAs / business-minded people are the driving factor for healthcare workers being overworked.

In Canada most fully-trained doctors are paid per patient (AKA fee-for-service)[1] and so there is a huge incentive to rush through as many patients in a day, which results in overwork for the residents (who are salaried) and nurses (also salaried), and no time for adequate education of medical students and residents.

[1] https://www.dr-bill.ca/blog/billing-tips/physician-payment-m...

fyi you can download windows power toys and assign a keyboard shortcut to "paste as plain text" universally in Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/paste-as...

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