bakedoatmeal | 3 months ago | on: Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
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bakedoatmeal | 10 months ago | on: Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise
Recently heard a physician who essentially manages every case of this disease in Alberta give a really fascinating talk. The hepatic cysts these worms produce are very difficult to distinguish from cancer on imaging and the infection itself is staged using a PNM system not too dissimilar from cancer's TNM staging.
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
Diabetes mellitus is an insulin problem- either a lack of insulin (Type 1) or insufficient response to insulin (Type 2). Insulin is responsible for lowering blood glucose. The hormones responsible for raising blood glucose (cortisol, IGF-1, glucagon, epinephrine) still function normally.
My understanding was hypoglycemia only occurs in diabetes in the presence of medications used to lower blood glucose (insulin formulations, sulfonylureas, etc.) and not because of diabetes itself, which when untreated invariably leads to hyperglycemia.
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: FDA clears first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor
What is the connection between being at risk of diabetes and hypoglycemia? Wouldn’t a pre-diabetic be very protected from hypoglycemia?
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: First AI medical device that detects major skin cancers received FDA approval
I don’t have the data for a cost-benefit-analysis but frequent inaccurate checks cause harm as well. The false positive rate is 3%; if all 330+ million Americans tested themselves each year, that’s millions of benign cases that will need to be followed up on which inflate costs and create backlogs.
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: Scientists discover new antibiotics using AI
Antibiotics harm the host as well. Giving grandma 4 antibiotics to treat a typical case of pneumonia goes against “do no harm”. Not to mention the added cost of prescribing more antibiotics.
When we can safely give multiple therapies without harming the patient, we do it. Standard HIV treatment uses 4 different drugs to raise the evolutionary hurdle for the virus.
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals
The ED is the primary source of hospital admissions so I don’t think the two are that separable.
bakedoatmeal | 2 years ago | on: Psychedelic scientist sends brains back to childhood
How do you keep a lifetime supply of LSD? Isn't it an unstable molecule with a limited shelf life?
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If users just look at the AI overview at the top of the search page, Google is hobbling two sources of revenue (AdSense, sponsored search results), and also disincentivizing people from sharing information on the web that makes their AI overview useful. In the process of all this they are significantly increasing the compute costs for each Google search.
This may be a necessary step to stay competitive with AI startups' search products, but I don't think this is a great selling point for AI commercialization.