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Comment · 7 days ago
Yeah agreed, I hope the b2b marketplace will automatically make these products redundant if they are mainly targeted at engineers. Unless they offer value somehow else.

I don’t think a license change would have a net positive effect, they will just add their tiny wrapper around another permissive model

Comment · 7 days ago
Better than is not part of the issue. If open weights models are released with a copy-left license as GPL, companies won’t include them in their products and favour commercially permissive models
Comment · 1 month ago
I’m curious, what’s the criticism for PyTorch?
Comment · 1 month ago
The benefits of SL described are pretty handwaivy to me. Having used a fork of scientific Linux, this was a huge pain because of outdated openSSL packages. Now you could argue this deserves being maintained separately, but I think it makes total sense to use the security- benefits of long term distros and only modify the parts required for reproducible scientific work.

I was really glad when the vendor started unofficially supporting OpenSuse so I could finally use git on these distros.

Comment · 1 month ago
Don’t newly produced meds require new FDA clearance/approval, with clinical testing and all the like? I mean how else can you prove that your new drug production is effective and causes no new harms
Comment · 2 months ago
I do avoid uv run for this reason but it’s useful for managing python projects. The speed claims actually have a lot to do with efficient caching, and I run several projects on the same Python (patch) version with similar packages on the same system
Comment · 2 months ago
The part I find challenging in the senior-staff twilight is that having deep technical knowledge means I can solve short term problems, just as requests, fast and effectively. The author mentions that you should spend time understanding the frustrations from other teams, but that takes up loads of time and I don’t like being the person who talks and talks but doesn’t push code and ship features. I’d love to hear how others have experienced that
Comment · 3 months ago
Wow this is badly vibe coded. Check your submission on a couple of devices (desktop, mobile) and browsers.

How did you implement the tracking feature? Do you plan to narrow down in one legal sector where this could be especially useful?

Comment · 4 months ago
Radiologists very often have to weigh up different theories, guidelines based on the symptoms. The certainty of their diagnosis is their added value, or if they don’t know they will tell you why.

An AI telling you it could be X or Y because theory ABC… is the academic answer and a luxury clinicians don’t have. AI doesn’t give you what you want. I don’t see any added value in using generic AI models for this

Comment · 4 months ago
Exactly, try can get a very limited FOV which is probably why they showcased it on arms/legs first
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
MRI physicist here as well. I have a basic understanding of ultrasound, and this looks like an array of transducers organized to perform tomography, just as CT did for Xray.

However Ultrasound quality depends highly on transducer-skin contact.

Any physicists here to comment on the effects of sonar through liquid and the effects on image resolution and field of view?

Comment · 4 months ago
This has factored out product development, which is more than compute resources. Just like any industry, some organisation needs to take ownership and responsibility to convert technology to a usable product.
Comment · 4 months ago
That only tells what base architecture they used, but fine tuning does not increase the number of weights, it just adapts the weights to improve better on a fine tuning dataset- something they claimed they had done

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