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reubens

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https://www.aboutmedicine.com.au/

reuben.schmidt (at) icloud.com

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reubens··on GPT-4
There is none. But if the multimodal model is exposed to enough medical knowledge, it may be able to interpret images without specific training
reubens··on GPT-4
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
reubens··on Twitter Non-Functioning in Australia
Yep still gone in Aus. Now I’m not even getting the static
reubens··on Twitter is having issues in NZ
Still down in Australia.
reubens··on “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
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

reubens··on “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
I think the suggestion was more along the lines of “screening programmes have their place, but their variables should be optimised”
reubens··on My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
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.
reubens··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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?

reubens··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
> 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

reubens··on YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
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.
reubens··on YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days
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.
reubens··on Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip
Seeing the exchange price graphs coalesce in red like that... it's a sight to behold. I feel for the vulnerable recent converts.
reubens··on The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
I love your landing page. Accessible, well-balanced... you clearly have garnered a degree of frontend experience to complement the work on the backend
reubens··on Show HN: PDFs from HTML
I love this.

Typo FWIW on page 8:

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

reubens··on Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
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]."

reubens··on Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
"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.

reubens··on DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
"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-...

reubens··on Why books don't work (2019)
Agree. I found Thinking, Fast and Slow painfully biased
reubens··on GPT-3
> -- 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

reubens··on I'm Married to an ER Doc in NYC
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.

reubens··on Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model
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!
reubens··on FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI
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

reubens··on Show HN: Self-taught neural network learns to shoot a target
I'm curious about the title of the module 'Dejavu.js'. Is it from another project?
reubens··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
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?
reubens··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
Regarding 1., what do you think will be the selling point of this transition? There is very little that hospital monitoring devices can offer to the average person (do you need a daily ECG / EKG?)
reubens··on Calculus Explained with GIFs and Pics (2014)
Is there a word for this effect in education? Where the teacher forgets the context of the learner?
reubens··on Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser
As far as I could tell playing around with it, the answer is no. You can load models, transform, animate, etc. but no vertex editing
reubens··on Webglstudio.js – Open-source 3D graphics editor in the browser
This is a great start. I particularly like the View JSON capability (in the Scene tab for those interested)
reubens··on Please Buy Less
Same with smoking cessation:

"Increasing the retail price of tobacco products through higher taxes is the single most effective way to decrease consumption and encourage tobacco users to quit." [0]

https://www.who.int/tobacco/mpower/publications/en_tfi_mpowe...

reubens··on Please Buy Less
Wow, getting some negative responses here. Personally, I'm rapt to see a message like this (especially on front page of HN)
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