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Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. dmd@3e.org

Director of IT, McLean Hospital Neuroimaging @ Harvard Medical School / Mass General Brigham.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dmd; my proof: https://keybase.io/dmd/sigs/n7TmOEMKwPrPIcURqZYLYVX1387bzeEZxx42rrP8b2M ]

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dmd··on Fractal Imaginary Cubes
I have a 3D-printed Sierpinski Tetrahedron. It's lovely.

https://imgur.com/a/oZwCFLu

dmd··on Space Elevator
I'm not understanding this sentiment at all. You'd rather input your CC details into a site whose main business isn't dealing safely with credit cards - rather than inputting it into Stripe (which is what his site uses), whose entire raison d'etre is doing so?
dmd··on With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed
Great! You’ve just put the final piece in place for the civil war.
dmd··on With deadline looming 4 of 9 universities reject Trumps pact to remake higher ed
> as long as people can move freely

But they won’t be able to. We’ve already seen this attempted (e.g. https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/pressroom/first-in-t... ) and if we went in that direction that’s the kind of thing that would happen.

dmd··on Replacement.ai
If intimacy doesn’t keep you warm you might be doing something wrong.
dmd··on The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)
My tp-link ax6000 does that just fine.
dmd··on Resizeable Bar Support on the Raspberry Pi
A label maker is about $20. I’m not sure that speaks to intense dedication all by itself.
dmd··on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
Love your blog. What do you think of what was said in the sibling comments about it?
dmd··on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
I have been playing with it recently and, yeah, it's much better than Gemini. It's still seems to be single-shot though - as in, it reads your text, thinks about it for a bit, kicks off searches, reads those searches, thinks, and answers. It never, as far as I can tell, kicks off new searches based on the thinking it did after the initial searches - whereas chatgpt will often do half a dozen or more iterations of that.
dmd··on Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
I find Claude and Gemini to be wildly inferior to ChatGPT when it comes to doing searches to establish grounding. Gemini seems to do a handful of searches and then make shit up, where ChatGPT will do dozens or even hundreds of searches - and do searches based on what it finds in earlier ones.
dmd··on Uv overtakes pip in CI
It really is just that good. That is why it's had such massive uptake. No matter how many times you've been burned before, no matter how skeptical you are, it's so good that, seriously, just try it, and you'll be instantly converted.
dmd··on Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients
If only there were some sort of link here with that sort of information!
dmd··on GNU Health
I work in healthcare IT and all of these have very specific meanings, and it’s very clear to the intended audience what these all are.
dmd··on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
galaxy spine thinking
dmd··on Deloitte to refund the Australian government after using AI in $440k report
Chiropractor is NOT the same as astrology. Astrology isn’t noted for causing permanent spinal cord damage and quadriplegia.
dmd··on Old Stockholm Telephone Tower
Wouldn’t the number of wires be…. zero? The clacks are optical. They’re semaphore.
dmd··on NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system
The judge: five .... MEEEIIILLIONNNN ... euros!

Meta: lol

dmd··on Jane Goodall has died
It's mentioned here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasakela_chimpanzee_community
dmd··on EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies
Oooh I love this idea. We could have some sort of process where everyone gets a say in deciding how the money is spent. Except maybe rather than everyone doing that you could have instead people whose job it is to do it, and everyone gets a say in deciding who those people are.

I wonder if this sort of thing has ever been tried.

dmd··on Austria's military just ditched Microsoft for open-source LibreOffice
Why just hope, when you could read the article and know?
dmd··on Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
You seem to have a naming conflict with https://dayflow.ai/
dmd··on Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps
OKCupid, back in the day, was stunningly good. Back in 2011 I spent a huge amount of time filling out my profile, and OKC found me 5 matches with >98%.

I married one of them and 2 of them are still close friends.

dmd··on Kitty – GPU based terminal emulator
Odd. I’ve never had a new window or tab take more than maybe 20ms.
dmd··on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
It really is. I don't have my phone number on there, obviously, but when I went from being a random code monkey to having a 'Director' title at a very large institution, my sales spam went from 0 to probably 50 pieces a day.
dmd··on AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock...
dmd··on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks?
I love how spammers do that- it works out great for me. I no longer live in my phones area code. I block the entire area code, which catches a huge amount of spam calls.
dmd··on Altoids by the Fistful
It actually doesn't go where you'd expect after the first page. The discussion confirms it because nearly everyone only read the first page, and mostly people are commenting on the article they think it is, rather than what it actually is.
dmd··on A Beautiful Maths Game
It doesn't seem to work, though, no matter how many times i click on 'click here' or in what browser.
dmd··on How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
oh come on please it's easy just /etc/init.apt-get/frob-set-conf --arc=0 - +/lib/syn.${SETDCONPATH}.so.4.2 even my grandma can do that
dmd··on Tell HN: Apple Broke Fitts' Law in Tahoe
Fortunately, humans don't follow linguistic "laws" like you seem to do, and literally everyone understood what I meant.
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