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GPT-4 3 years ago

There is none. But if the multimodal model is exposed to enough medical knowledge, it may be able to interpret images without specific training

GPT-4 3 years ago

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

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.

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?

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

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.

I love this.

Typo FWIW on page 8:

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

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]."

GPT-3 6 years ago

-- 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

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.

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

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?)

Please Buy Less 7 years ago

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