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Re:GPT-4 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @04:26AM (#35165376)
There is none. But if the multimodal model is exposed to enough medical knowledge, it may be able to interpret images without specific training
Re:GPT-4 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:36AM (#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 radiology resident in Australia
Re:Twitter Non-Functioning in Australia on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @04:14AM (#34243599)
Yep still gone in Aus. Now I’m not even getting the static
Re:Twitter is having issues in NZ on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @06:59PM (#34239906)
Still down in Australia.
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 you think I could help with your efforts feel free to DM

I think the suggestion was more along the lines of “screening programmes have their place, but their variables should be optimised”
Re:My take on Elon's offer for Twitter on Saturday April 16, 2022 @05:25AM (#31050953)
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 medium that has long term growth potential.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:39PM (#29181929)
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 suggested to you, so will still determine whether you end up watching the video?

Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:17AM (#28467821)
> 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 time with palliative care physicians and the phrase "if I had a crystal ball" is burned into your memory

Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:27PM (#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.
Re:YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:24PM (#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 mask.
Re:Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @09:58AM (#27208692)
Seeing the exchange price graphs coalesce in red like that... it's a sight to behold. I feel for the vulnerable recent converts.
Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:40PM (#26743493)
I love your landing page. Accessible, well-balanced... you clearly have garnered a degree of frontend experience to complement the work on the backend
Re:Show HN: PDFs from HTML on Monday April 05, 2021 @12:37AM (#26695400)
I love this.

Typo FWIW on page 8:

"You want to select the print background option and delect the print headers & footers option."

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 ultimate complexity, in mere weeks or months; so the individual scientist in the course of their life repeats the history of science and loses themselves, by progressive stages, in the orchard [of science]."

"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 like, and want to follow... but it might not be programming.

Re:DALL·E: Creating Images from Text on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @09:22PM (#25654046)
"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! Seriously! DALL-E did an incredible job

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/05/1015754/avocado-...

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 this year with bosses whose management I disagree with. But I haven’t come up with a useful, constructive means to voice this disagreement. Medicine is often a chaotic space to work, which doesn’t help, and your work...

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Re:Why books don't work (2019) on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @06:55AM (#24553026)
Agree. I found Thinking, Fast and Slow painfully biased
Re:GPT-3 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:39AM (#23627169)
> -- 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 perhaps to identify this as 'efficiency' in a computational sense - we're talking trillions of extra parameters derived in the brain from the tiny fraction of training data

Re:I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC on Thursday June 11, 2020 @01:29AM (#23485473)
I can only speak for the docs, but this has something to do with compassion fatigue. The job is hard, and extending your frame of thought to public health concerns like this can be beyond the mental energy we're capable of in a day.

Bad analogy, but its like using a car to get to work instead of riding your bike. Most do it, knowing its worse for the environment.

Re:Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model on Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:41PM (#22630872)
I’d be interested in helping out with the front end. Having some issues with display on my iPhone SE. Thanks for the awesome tool!
Re:FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:24PM (#22339773)
If I understand it correctly, the machine uses permanent magnets rather than a giant solenoid.

The magnetic field is way less strong (0.064 Tesla compared to at least 1 in most machines), but the machine doesn't have to generate heat while producing a magnetic field

I'm curious about the title of the module 'Dejavu.js'. Is it from another project?
Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:25PM (#21943147)
I'm interested to know why you think climate change won't really be talked about in 2030. I take it you're optimistic the problem will be solved?

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