owenpalmer

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I love programming, science, robotics, automation, teaching.

I'm a bioengineering undergraduate student at the University of Washington, working in tissue engineering research to build functional human organs.

Website: owenpalmer.com

Email: [email protected]

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Comment · 10 days ago
We've already moved away from sites storing credit card information, because the risk of storing it yourself is simply too high. We need to make the stakes higher for other personal information.
Comment · 23 days ago
> I've concluded that I think I and you are the problem

Oh please. If someone shits in your sandwich, you're not the problem for disliking the flavor of salami for the next 2 years.

Comment · 1 month ago
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Comment · 4 months ago
Why would you jump from an ultrasound to chemotherapy? It's not meant to be a definitive diagnosis, it's just an early screening process...
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm not so worried about the data being useful, I'm worried about the machine actually working.

I mean, with that much data, you may be able to understand under what timeframe a tumor is actually of concern. What's so bad about having some false positives?

Comment · 4 months ago
I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestly just... a bit weird. They're talking about wanting to do a billion scans a month, but they haven't even mentioned what the ultrasound data can tell you about your health, nor have they showed a physical demo of the product. I think the latter is the most important part, does it actually work?
Comment · 4 months ago
Importantly, the researchers told it to do that specific task.
Comment · 4 months ago
A law that is not enforced is ultimately a suggestion
Comment · 4 months ago
> This is not just another incremental release. OpenCV 5 is a major step forward.

Am I the only one that finds this sentence very cheesey?

Comment · 4 months ago
Why did you write it as "1969ties"?
Comment · 5 months ago
Smoking has entered the chat
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I tried to become a contributor to Canvas (it's open source), but I couldn't even get a development environment setup because of their storage space requirements.

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start

> It is recommended that you have at least 150GB of available hard drive space, 8GB of RAM, and a quad-core CPU to use this script.

As far as I can tell, this is not for running a production environment with assets. This is just the development environment.

Comment · 5 months ago
A truly wonderful read
Comment · 6 months ago
70 months, or 5.83 years

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