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569 karma · joined January 10, 2022

An MD who's interested in tech mostly as a hobbyist
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_qua··on In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
_qua··on Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Love it
_qua··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
I can imagine truly horrifying images coming out of this. Many people who have spent a lot of time online have come across unfortunate gore images that they may have seen for only a fraction of a second that they wish they could unsee. One can imagine the brain is able to see much worse.
_qua··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
The diagrams definitely look like LLM output as well
_qua··on I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph
I absolutely love the graphs that were used in old medical physiology papers. Something about the hand-drawn nature makes you appreciate both the underlying concept the graph is trying to convey as well as the work that went into it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge techie. I love computers and computer graphics, but sometimes a hand-drawn graph just takes the cake.
_qua··on Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer
I'm not dyslexic, but this is what I imagine dyslexic hell is.
_qua··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Damn, that case took a long time to resolve. You know what they say about justice delayed...
_qua··on How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
For roughly equivalent memory sizes, how does one choose between the bit depth and the model size?
_qua··on The Contagious Taste of Cancer
Some infections cause cancer-like growths or masses though they're not actually cancer. Though off the top of my head none that I would suspect would survive a trip through stomach acid.
_qua··on Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI
Would there be liability lawsuits for this happening on public land? Might it be more a matter of them not wanting to do body clean up once a week?
_qua··on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
Interesting how the concept of a clean room implementation changes when the agent has been trained on the entire internet already
_qua··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
"...the requested warrants would permit law enforcement personnel to (1) press or swipe the fingers (including thumbs) of the subject to the fingerprint scanner of the devices..."
_qua··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
What do you think warrants are? You think they get a warrant and they say, "Can you put your finger on the device?" You say, "No," and that's it? If all they wanted to do was ask you, they would just ask you without the warrant.
_qua··on Usenet personality
B1FF sounds like he would have been right at home on weird Twitter
_qua··on Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines
Presumably they'd be doing inspections for the power company, who probably don't care if some minuscule amounts of power are consumed directly during operations.
_qua··on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
Well, I've really love being protected from cookies. Has done wonders for my experience on the web.
_qua··on ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
If you lived in the US and you didn't like this product, you can just choose to not use it. What benefit do you as a citizen of Europe derive from having this withheld from you?
_qua··on ChatGPT Health
You came in, you told a doctor that she ate a specific food and immediately got a rash and GI upset and the ED doctor did not diagnose anaphylaxis?
_qua··on ChatGPT Health
> Most doctor advice boil down to drink some water and take a painkiller

Forgive my brusqueness here, but this could only be written by someone who has not yet been seriously ill.

_qua··on Eat Real Food
The most important dietary intervention most people need is just eating less. The content of what they eat is secondary. It's not unimportant, it just matters less when you are still wildly overweight.
_qua··on A spider web unlike any seen before
This is the first anti-fly paper take I've ever seen on the basis of morality.
_qua··on A spider web unlike any seen before
I've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.
_qua··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)
I personally think it's more of a https://c25k.com/ time of year.
_qua··on Generative Optogenetics
This is cool but why is DARPA funding it?
_qua··on Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others
They have hundreds of new voices in their library
_qua··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Not a good place to be a klutz!
_qua··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Interesting page overall. Didn't realize reactors get scrammed that often.
_qua··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
Realistically, there is little to do besides decontamination which I'm sure they're equipped to do on site.
_qua··on Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel laureate, dies at 103
I'd love to one day learn enough math and physics to really understand gauge theory beyond just the many pop-sci videos I've watched about it.
_qua··on [dead]
Certainly feels that way
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