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Comment · 12 days ago
What about putting Steam on your Switch 2?
Comment · 15 days ago
Walter has been working on adding ARM64 support to DMD. I think he recently got Hello World running.
Comment · 1 month ago
The people who are adopting LLMs later are also slower to adopt new technology in general. The samples of people who adopt early and adopt late have different characteristics.
Comment · 1 month ago
"Are you sure you can find that many more doctors? That they'll be any good? Speaking from Romania: ..."

The prior post was specifically talking about the US. (I assure you, arrogant dismissive doctors are also a thing in the US)

In the US, there are a number of things that artificially increase the barriers to becoming a doctor.

1) You typically need a four year college degree to apply to medical school

2) Medical schools are accredited by the AMA, which is controlled by doctors. The AMA makes it very difficult to start a new MD-granting medical school.

3) Medical school in the US is very competitive to get in. They are likely turning away a lot of people who could complete the degree.

4) Since 1997, the federal government has a fixed number of Medicare (Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people over 65) supported residency positions. That number was basically flat for 25 years. We lost about 20% per capita of doctors being trained with support from this program. The caveat to this is that the total number of residents per capita has increased over time, particularly the past 15 years or so. My understanding is that they are less likely to be fully funded, so they spend more money getting trained, and then have higher students loans (on average graduating with debt above 200k going back to the late 2000s) that they need to pay off, so they charge more.

And you can add to this that it can be very difficult to be a doctor in another country and come to the US to practice here.

Comment · 6 months ago
How much time do the doctors spend to diagnose versus o1?
Comment · 6 months ago
And at the same time the car companies want to move away from Apple CarPlay, which for any of its fault is a substantially better UI than we can expect the legacy carmakers to produce.
Comment · 6 months ago
The deterioration in the Windows and Office experience is astounding.
Comment · 6 months ago
I took calculus in high school and college, and I don't think any of my instructors explained the intuition as well. So sleep-deprived or not, it's a great one!
Comment · 6 months ago
A write-up on the D language blog on the recently accepted DIP that enhances tuple unpacking.
Comment · 7 months ago
You can deposit checks via the app pretty easily.
Comment · 8 months ago
I attach a copy of the file and then provide a network location for where it is located. Makes it easy for people to just open up a simple copy to look at it and they know where to go to access the original.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's packaging an existing product differently than a fully new product. Would still require either new machines or adapting existing machines for it.
Comment · 8 months ago
My thinking is that the company creating the game would train the AI in advance (like a generative adversarial network), not that any kind of training would happen on the users' computer. They could periodically send updates or improvements (maybe by having it play in multiplayer or something).
Comment · 8 months ago
I would love to see someone use modern machine learning techniques to make a kick ass Civ AI.

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