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Medical twitter is fairly positive and a great way to learn about new papers and interact with educators and researchers. Check out the #foamed (Free Open Access Medicine) hashtag. I usually try to avoid following political people and keep my feed science-focused.

I don't get the hate; I played around with the Hololens for a bit and while the FOV issues are hard to ignore, both devices are steps forward into an interesting and likely THE interface for future computing.

One can hope that if MagicLeap fails at least someone will pick up the IP and continue to develop it.

I think the sack of Constantinople by the Latins in their 4th crusade did more to secure Byzantium's decline than any single action by the Arabs. The Turks merely delivered a coup de grace centuries later.

It might have been true in the past. You are absolutely going to hate the restrooms in the 737MAX.

I think better diagnostic testing is one way to solve this. Oncology in some ways is easy since the data input is usually a set of biomarkers particular to that tumour (i.e. estrogen receptor, her2/neu, etc). It's probably the most rapidly advancing field in medicine. Same with radiology and dermatology where the input can be images which can be standardized. Dealing with analog humans is another challenge entirely!

Better biomarkers for acute illnesses with fewer false positives would help you better test 'accuracy' versus an ML model.

Emergency doctor here, I have to say that diagnosing a sick child is one of the hardest things you can do in medicine (aside from figuring out why someone is feeling 'dizzy'). The limiting step here is that we can't do blood tests and x-ray/CT on everyone that walks in the door (which itself can lead to harm: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/overinvestigation-emergen...)

I work in one of the busiest ER's in Canada, and maybe one child out of hundreds will have something hidden... Many illnesses, particularly meningitis, are so rapid in killing the patient that you may miss the early symptoms (which are often mild).

What many posters have eluded to about 'gut feeling' is well described in medical education literature, where 'system 1' is well thought out, algorithmic reasoning, and 'system 2' is pattern recognition and based on experience. Many cognitive biases can affect both meeting (described will in this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/12915363/).

Your gut feeling can be affected from anything from unusual vital signs, to the way a patient talks, to beads of sweat on their forehead, and a million other things that take years and years of training to catch.

Anyone who can build an ML model to catch these clues is going to make billions.

A great way to save the situation. And the resulting community created by 15k startups might lead to interesting directions and developments. I'm looking forward to participating and meeting our peers out there.

The only problem with this strategy is that competing vendors will start leaving 1 star reviews on reviews of rival products. That said, I haven't bought much either and switched to vendors that somewhat vouch for their products like Best Buy, Walmart, Monoprice, etc

RMS is gonna be RMS. I just wish he was a more realistic advocate of open content. Creative Commons has taken off while GPL v3 is rarely used.

I guess they don't want to get the Papyrus treatment by Ryan Gosling: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/1/16392890/avatar-papyrus-f...

> The question is not whether China will eventually devolve more political power to the populace——that is almost a given

This idea was popular in 2013 when this article was written, but Xi's regime has indeed shown that greater prosperity can be had with increased repression. Turmoil in America only underlines this.

I fought this battle with a 64GB SSD, and gave up and cloned the drive onto a hybrid SSD/7200RPM drive (using EaseUS). I can't imagine what you went through to get it to fit on 30GB!

It seems to have a larger field of view. Hololens (I have one) is about the size of a credit card held out with your arm half extended. This one is the size of a VHS tape. Also, the unit appears to be lighter as processing is done by a pocket computer that comes with it. Hololens is completely self-contained and thus heavier and less comfortable. I wonder if they'll use the same Unity/C# dev tools.

I was able to download on my iPad. Great app with a decent number of users posting in Toronto!

Is this similar to Apify? https://www.apify.com/

Very similar, but one crucial difference: the provinces control funding to cities and equalize spending across county lines. So you don't end up with bankrupt cities, or super wealthy ones, and everyone tends to get the same services. Instead, at least in Toronto, you have "priority neighbourhoods".. poor communities that get extra funding and resources.

It would be trivial for FB and Google to allow tailoring of feeds. Even keyword exclusions or subject filters would be a huge step-up from the gamified engagement-getting monster that we have now.