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jazoom··on Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases
Ok. Here in Australia it's not like that. It's mostly years of arse-kissing, doing research projects and volunteering your time. It's not meant to find the smartest, but the most dedicated to that speciality, and to take advantage of the candidate for as many years as possible. I like the US's method better and wish we would adopt it.

Also, you're basing "most knowledgeable" on how they did in 1 test a decade ago in medical school? I'd say a general physician (and also many specialist physicians) is usually more knowledgeable since they learn about all body systems and deal with them all daily. This is what I notice anecdotally, but I don't have evidence to back it up. I also think it doesn't really matter.

jazoom··on Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases
I'm a doctor and I don't know what "step" is, so I guess it's region-specific. I do a lot of skin work. The difficulty with dermatology is that lesions can look very different in different people. It's kinda lucky that many rashes do okay with steroids, but many don't.
jazoom··on When a Human Liver Is Supercooled to -4 C
Ah right. Thanks for pointing that out.
jazoom··on When a Human Liver Is Supercooled to -4 C
Supercooled = 14 degrees warmer than a household freezer?
jazoom··on The Cult of Kubernetes
Wow this is accurate in my experience (actual cult, not dev culture). Where did you find this list?
jazoom··on Top Programming Languages 2019
While I can certainly see why you could call such communities an "echo system", I think you might mean "ecosystem".
jazoom··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell
Ah. Sounds like the cache wouldn't be much use for .au since nothing is in it currently. Gotcha.
jazoom··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – Show and tell
Interesting. Any reason why you don't have amazon.com.au?
jazoom··on Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account
I'm trying to understand what this is. So it's not storing any data? It is a web app that is capable of displaying data/files on other servers via the many listed protocols?
jazoom··on Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
Which is why they're not called Perl 7 and Perl 8 respectively
jazoom··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
I'm pretty sure you can bind a key to do exactly that in i3.
jazoom··on Ask HN: When did HN start using recaptcha?
I was wondering why I couldn't upvote anything through the app and then also wondering why the app kept thinking I wasn't signed in. This is poor indeed. I like using Materialistic. I guess I just won't vote, submit or comment until this madness is over.
jazoom··on Google's software mistreats or harms the user
We = kd3 + jazoom + whoever else kd3 was referring to.

"We" doesn't have to include all 7 billion human inhabitants of Earth. You were not included.

jazoom··on Should You Get a Scary UV Photo of Your Skin Damage?
The problem here is you're completely ignoring morbidity. Skin cancers are a whole lot easier and safer to cut out when they're small.

Of course, I do work in Australia, so pretty much everyone gets skin cancer.

Source: I cut out skin cancers.

jazoom··on Anxiety Looks Different in Men
Reading your comment now I also don't see where we are disagreeing. Though, I didn't say we are disagreeing, and I don't see why we need to.

Edit: Did you by any chance edit your comment? I swear the word "miss" was in there.

jazoom··on Anxiety Looks Different in Men
I'm a doctor. I can tell you that even if I think a middle aged man with chest pain has anxiety he's still getting a full cardiac workup. Even a 20yo woman with anxiety will get a cardiac workup. It doesn't sound like these doctors missed anything based on this story. It sounds like they were ruling out the stuff that'll kill you quickly.
jazoom··on Xfce 4.14
This was what I was wondering to. I'm still learning about the ins and outs of Linux.
jazoom··on Canva Security Incident
I never got an email from them. Blaming users for having incorrect email addresses is a cop out. It sounds like there are very many people they didn't notify. Did they actually notify anyone before HIBP?
jazoom··on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
I think the trick to using the NodeJS/webdev ecosystem is to ignore most of what goes on and to keep one ear barely listening in case something truly useful comes along.

...and update packages with caution. SemVer doesn't always save you and neither will static analysis (because there really isn't any).

jazoom··on Is Ebola Evolving into a Deadlier Virus?
I don't know where your definition of parasite has come from but I've never heard it. Also, it's not universally agreed upon whether viruses are living or non-living (dead is the incorrect term).

Parasite: an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

Sounds like a virus to me.

jazoom··on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
I've been using NodeJS for about 5 years and have never seen the init usage you're talking about. `npm init` initialises your new project. At least I think that's the case, because I've never run that command. I just create a package.json file myself. Also, I use yarn instead of npm. But of course, because change, there is now a new way to use init that you just alerted me to. It sure seems like an unnecessary complication. I recommend using yarn, by the way.
jazoom··on Flutter looks good, but is painful
So you are arguing that no one "would say re-writing the same app 5 times and maintaining 5 codebases is a bad idea."?

That was my statement. You are saying it's not true. All the upvotes suggest some would say that. Therefore my statement is true.

I'm not sure why you're so confused here. This isn't at all applicable to what you are saying. You are talking about writing an app once and having one code base, which is exactly the opposite of what I was talking about. You have constructed a straw man and called it not true.

jazoom··on Flutter looks good, but is painful
> Not true

What's not true? You just agreed with my statement. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

jazoom··on Flutter looks good, but is painful
>Adding Flutter or any other UI library that draws everything from scratch is a bad idea.

Some would say re-writing the same app 5 times (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) and maintaining 5 codebases is a bad idea.

jazoom··on High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
In that case I leave it to the psychiatrists. In practice, very few adults are diagnosed with autism where I'm from.
jazoom··on High levels of oestrogens in the womb linked to autism
I'm a medical practitioner and that sounds a little silly to me too. I don't diagnose autism, though. I leave that to the paediatricians. The main reason that diagnosis is a big deal here is it's related to funding packages. I suspect that's also why ability comes into it.

The other thing is that autism is somewhat nebulous and it's in part a condition of not being able to cope socially in this world. So because of this, it makes sense what GP was saying.

I'm glad I don't need to diagnose autism. Severe is easy to see from 100m away. Borderline would be a coin toss.

jazoom··on Google and Mozilla are failing to support browser extension developers
It's essentially the same as a Chrome extension now. Tutorials and documentation for either should work fine.
jazoom··on Has esketamine been overhyped?
You do realise we can prescribe whatever dose we like, right? Some drugs I prescribe in grams, some in milligrams and some in micrograms. The strength of a drug is somewhat irrelevant. I'm not going to prescribe a new and expensive drug just because the dose is 150mg when it's well-established, cheap cousin is available that happens to need a dose of 300mg.

It certainly is the context, and I believe it's what OP asked. If it wasn't, it should be, because it's the only question that really matters to me as the prescriber.

If what you're saying about the different pharmacodynamics is true (and this is actually what I'm talking about. I only mentioned milder effect because that seemed to be the difference in pharmacodynamics you were getting at), then this is an important difference. It would still have to somehow be quite different to the effect of the racemic version at any arbitrary dose to be preferentially prescribed.

jazoom··on Has esketamine been overhyped?
So a double strength dose of the racemic mixture has a much milder effect than a single strength dose of the strong enantiomer?
jazoom··on “We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”
What has that got to do with my stated reasons for leaving Chrome?
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