haskellandchill

I agree. Very shallow "sources" and no qualifications to be speaking on a medical topic. There is a role for pop science to disseminate knowledge but this is pure speculation.

The current situation is that you have to go out of your way with things like `pip install --only-binary`. There is a lot of implicit trust in developer tooling.

I think it is common that in installing packages you have hooks to execute code anyway.

I thought it was a good write up but did anyone catch the ending comment?

> We believe artificial general intelligence will be created within our lifetimes, and likely within the next decade.

Maybe within our lifetimes (if you are young) but I find it highly unlikely within the next decade.

tech to med school pipeline, don't recommend it but I'm happy

proud owner of a financed 2024 manual nissan versa here :) but yeah the dealership made almost no money and I put down a deposit when it was a couple months from coming in at a location far from where I live. it's a $20k car though.

It's not just one unpaid intern with long term memory loss, it's several of them. And they don't need breaks.

If you could hire an army of unpaid interns with long term memory loss who work 24/7, would you?

From your link

> Many studies have shown the incidence of repair procedures and worse final vision outcomes were higher in groups with autoimmune conditions (SJS, OCP). The difference in outcomes appears to be related to the degree and cumulative past period of inflammation. Overall most favorable outcomes are achieved in non-cicatrizing conditions, followed by ocular burns and OCP with the worst outcomes in SJS patients.

The patient in the article was a SJS patient

> The massage therapist says he could see just fine until he was 13 years old, when he took some ibuprofen after a school basketball game, triggering a rare auto-immune reaction known as Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

For those without means understanding is a luxury, for many with, it is merely aesthetic. Matching drive with opportunity could unlock humanistic discovery but it is far more likely to be done artificially given the way we organize our societies.

I gave up a while ago and started on the path to becoming a doctor. I'm pretty happy about it except for the 10 years until I make what I used to part.