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This particular one is mostly about dosing, the available medicines were weight based, with lowest dosages in the 5-15kg range. This brings dosages lower allowing more precise dosing for the lighter babies.

Edit: it's a very welcome addition. Limits side effects.

I am working on an app to detect tooth problems. I envision it as something you can use for a quick check for the large majority who don't have regular dental care. It will be late detection but a good alternative to doing nothing.

I am experimenting with the current SOTA multimodal LLMs, but performance is still not yet there, they still hallucinate non-existent teeth. (As an aside, I have found a simple but very telling test, I have an image with only 4 teeth visible up and 10 down, so I prompt the modal to count, non have been able to, but Gemini 2.5 pro is the closest of the lot, performance is worse in the description when the counting test fails).

I am going to try segmenting the image to see if I will have better results by prompting to describe segment by segment.

I now put documentation of my DSLs and macros in a folder in the repo. I give the agent an instruction about consulting the documentation and it is working so far, but not that well. I am considering switching to all generics.

The binary interface makes interop easier with other langauges. A note of incompatibility in versions after OTP-24 with those before.

There have been multiple attempts in various languages to implement Erlang-like processes and claims of parity, Erlang processes remain unbeaten at what they do.

Erlang is built for reliability. They're chasing nine nines. Everything about the BEAM is built to emphasize that, the design choices, the documentation, the recommended practices.

Erlang is not very fast, but that's not what it was built for.

Came here to say this. In Lisp, you can just compile a function, or load a file and it just works. It's not even sold as a hot feature, not the way Erlang sells it. It's just a feature.

I manage a few websites written in Lisp, and updating them is as simple as push code, recompile and it works.

I have found journalling to be pretty effective about anything. Most times when I meet a block, I write about it. Doesn't require tons of experience to journal about stuff.

Having a reflex and breastfeeding are two different things. The baby can have the reflex, but the mother has no milk or the latching technique is poor (as mentioned elsewhere in these comments). So the child not breastfeeding doesn't mean there is no reflex. And yes, the process can be painful and stressful to many mothers most especially first timers (experience also counts).

Newborns don't have to learn how to suckle. It's a reflex, called a suckling reflex. Lacking a suckling reflex is an indicator of disease. Basically a newborn suckles everything that goes into the mouth, nipple or not.