I guess I'm lucky in that most of my ageing relatives have had some end-user experience with a hospital or medical clinic (tho not so lucky for them). It was much harder explaining to my young niece what made my job so interesting for me, I don't think I convinced her really.
As for discharge summary reports, this requires extracting event information, medications, lab tests etc etc from numerous different patient management databases, LIS data etc, and presenting it all together as a single report. When you try explaining that to the people outside the organisation, you realize that in most people's minds, a hospital's patient record is all just one big computer "thing" to start with, like a folder full of papers. They don't expect every department would have it's own separate resources and near-incompatible data sources. So when they ask, my explanation of the great achievement of the month must sound like a small and simple piece of work.
True, I was a little flippant with that statement. I work on both front-end and back-end layers, but when it comes to meetings with project managers etc. we try to stick to the business use case descriptions. This can hide the extent of work required and doesn't explain the complexities to the upper levels of managers, but at least that keeps the meetings shorter : )
Precisely that. If you can't explain the convenience or purpose provided for the end-user of your software in layman's terms, maybe you shouldn't be writing the software. My relatives are happy to hear something like "I reduced the amount of copying and re-typing that nurses have to do when producing a discharge summary to be sent to the patient's doctor". Nobody needs to know the complexities of database retrievals and layout crap that goes on in the code. Why would they want to know the details? They only ask what you have been doing to be polite, be polite in response.
It was officially going to be the PornHub/Hour unit, but the average person only lasted 12 minutes at a time so it became the PornHub/Minute unit of energy.
Apparently 360 degree porn vids are gaining popularity, so probably more bandwidth, plus the power consumption of all the VR headgear. Does VR consume more or less energy than a LCD screen?
Bollocks, there are plenty of UFO recordings made on mobile phones. YT is full of fake vids. The first rule tho, is that you have to wave your hands up and down and never hold the damned phone still, so most of them are too annoying to look at.
My grandmother saw a craft of some kind, I believe this was in the late sixties. She was an intelligent and very rational person, and was accompanied by my uncle at the time, they both saw and recalled the same thing, so I don't think they were mistaken. Back in the last century living in a rural community, there was not much desire to talk about such things, so they stayed quiet for many years.
When we were talking about the moon landing and rockets etc once, she mentioned that she had seen one of the Russian ships, but sometime later she told me she now didn't think it was Russian at all, and finally gave me more details. Driving on a country road they saw a craft land in the field beside them. They can't recall if the car stopped running or if my uncle parked it. There was a classic saucer shaped craft, with port holes in it, and they believed there were people visible looking out. They both recalled that it was exceptionally silent at the time. The craft flew off in the direction of a remote harbor area which has been the subject of many sightings over the years, a favorite area of author Bruce Cathie. We also discovered later that the farmer who owned that piece of land had called investigators in to look at a burned circular patch in his field.
I have never seen anything I consider unexplained or unidentifiable myself, but I don't know what to make of my grandmother's recollection of an encounter with a vehicle she was pretty damned sure nobody was supposed to have at the time. I'm also not inclined to blame 'aliens' for anything odd which may be seen flying about in our skies, that is an awfully big jump to make from 'not a technology I believe humans have right now'.
If the 'parent' AI kept telling the 'child' AI when it was right or wrong, wouldn't it just need to compile it's own database of the identified pictures? "Currently we have an average of over five hundred images per node."
I tried the 30 day free trial, in New Zealand. I could only find 1 tv show that it would allow me to watch. Nothing else was viewable in my location. The "thousands of tv shows and movies" is all false advertising as far as I can see. They could at least add a search filter to show only content available in my country, I could not find that option anywhere.
Movie rental prices weren't too impressive, from the few I looked up, but then I didn't try renting one because I couldn't tell if I would be allowed to view it in my location either.
I'm usually quite happy to wait. Most of my Ali purchases are hobby related and I can plan ahead without urgency. When the local retailers here in NZ are charging up to 15 times the cost of a simple computer part, I feel it is becoming immoral to support them.
There is a retailer association that goes stomping and shouting to the government about being threatened by online purchasing because we are not paying the goods and services tax (GST) which local retailers have to add to their prices, but the fact is that even accounting for that additional tax, the local prices are still usually 5 to 10 times what an online seller can offer, and often much more. I have not researched how much more or less a local retailer would have to pay for shipping goods here in bulk, as opposed to the single packages I have delivered, or the cost of storage and showroom space, or how much the greed-markup has to be to make them feel safe, but I still feel disinclined to support them when there is an alternative.
I'm not likely to start ordering masses of junk just because somebody someplace has named a special day, but I will certainly be checking out the discounts.
omg how can you watch that crap? when my niece turns on children shows on netflix I can hardly bare to stay in the house. that is some mindless annoying shit on there.
The article clearly shows they not talking about adhesive processes. There are a variety of techniques with many different names being used in industry, medical, dental etc. You could try searching on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) or Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). There are also some very cool looking machines doing Hybrid Metal Laser Sintering & Milling, combining both additive and subtractive processes. The results are often not as solid as a cast metal, maybe, but that depends on the metals and processes used.
I would electrify the controls which are not enabled, then if somebody tried to use the wrong one there would be instance feedback without relying on visual indicators.
Yes but if you had more than one control, and one stopped working, wouldn't your first thought be to try the other one? I can't accept everybody just ran about waving their hands in the air shouting "we've lost steering control".
I agree it is reasonable to expect an indicator of which device is active, and preferably each inactive device should have an indicator to show which one was in use, couldn't take more than a few Arduino's and some LEDs. heh.
The company said it plans to produce 10% fewer units of its Model S and Model X models in the fourth quarter
Is it just me or does that sound like a small reduction, not really qualifying as "slashes production" at all? Shouldn't there be a journalistic rule for when something qualifies as slashing, say maybe over 50%?
I found it quite enjoyable on the PSVR using the ds4 controller. The options for flight sticks are multitudes higher than I'm currently prepared to pay. But I think the most fun was getting familiar with the the game, doing the tutorials, then trying out some real online games. After the first few hours of that tho, the gameplay lost it's initial buzz, there was no voice feed from team members and very little clue as to what the team was up to. This led to boredom eventually and strangely I find that, while I am waiting for a really good single player VR game to come out for PSVR, I have not been all that interested in going back to flatscreen gaming either, so my gaming habit has been cut down drastically.
Still, the Valkyrie environment is impressive and immersive, the movement is fantastic and amazed me with how little it bothered me, there was no nausea in comparison with getting used to Driveclub VR. It just needed something to make you feel immersed in a team as well as a spaceship.
The biggest problem I have now is the headgear needs a fast flip-back, you need to be able to enjoy a drink while gaming and I'm not going to suck my beer or whiskey thru a straw.
Good on ya. Still using my first purchased i3-clone with 200x200x200 builds.
I really enjoy taking an idea or rough sketch into CAD and producing a solid lump of plastic from it. Some things have been useful bits around the house, some time and prototyping for my first experiments in Arduino based robotics, plus a lot of decorations, un-needed keyring decorations and failed prints.
I don't know why people above complained about the wasted expenses on filament, it's pretty damned cheap these days if you order from the right sources. As a hobby it has been cheap, while it kept me happy and busy, to the extent that my lifelong gaming habit has been almost ended. Tho not quite : ) But when I sit down after work for some relaxation time, the choice between gaming or playing with CAD usually leads to more CAD tutorials and experimentation.
I must have been exceptionally lucky to work for an employer who also understood the importance of having a solid team of testers working closely with the developers. For a start we had to make sure that nothing a user could type into a text entry could break the web page or the database, either on the way in or when coming back out to be displayed, be it the most basic issues like apostrophes in user names or HTML tags and such. Then the testers had to learn all sorts of clever tricks to get around our best efforts to stop them breaking our code. This included SQL injection and other web-page breaking techniques. If a company has mission-critical systems being developed and deployed via HTML, then they need to take responsibility for testing and penetration-testing the solutions, not just smacking out the fastest cheapest solution. If you get the chance to work alongside good testers, make them your friends and make sure you challenge each other, taking into consideration both the crazy things your regular users can do and the malicious things others may attempt.
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I guess I'm lucky in that most of my ageing relatives have had some end-user experience with a hospital or medical clinic (tho not so lucky for them). It was much harder explaining to my young niece what made my job so interesting for me, I don't think I convinced her really.
As for discharge summary reports, this requires extracting event information, medications, lab tests etc etc from numerous different patient management databases, LIS data etc, and presenting it all together as a single report. When you try explaining that to the people outside the organisation, you realize that in most people's minds, a hospital's patient record is all just one big computer "thing" to start with, like a folder full of papers. They don't expect every department would have it's own separate resources and near-incompatible data sources. So when they ask, my explanation of the great achievement of the month must sound like a small and simple piece of work.
True, I was a little flippant with that statement. I work on both front-end and back-end layers, but when it comes to meetings with project managers etc. we try to stick to the business use case descriptions. This can hide the extent of work required and doesn't explain the complexities to the upper levels of managers, but at least that keeps the meetings shorter : )
Precisely that. If you can't explain the convenience or purpose provided for the end-user of your software in layman's terms, maybe you shouldn't be writing the software.
My relatives are happy to hear something like "I reduced the amount of copying and re-typing that nurses have to do when producing a discharge summary to be sent to the patient's doctor".
Nobody needs to know the complexities of database retrievals and layout crap that goes on in the code. Why would they want to know the details? They only ask what you have been doing to be polite, be polite in response.
It was officially going to be the PornHub/Hour unit, but the average person only lasted 12 minutes at a time so it became the PornHub/Minute unit of energy.
Yes but is it a coincidence that a short time after the local video rental store dropped the porn section, it went out of business?
Apparently 360 degree porn vids are gaining popularity, so probably more bandwidth, plus the power consumption of all the VR headgear.
Does VR consume more or less energy than a LCD screen?
Bollocks, there are plenty of UFO recordings made on mobile phones. YT is full of fake vids. The first rule tho, is that you have to wave your hands up and down and never hold the damned phone still, so most of them are too annoying to look at.
My grandmother saw a craft of some kind, I believe this was in the late sixties. She was an intelligent and very rational person, and was accompanied by my uncle at the time, they both saw and recalled the same thing, so I don't think they were mistaken. Back in the last century living in a rural community, there was not much desire to talk about such things, so they stayed quiet for many years.
When we were talking about the moon landing and rockets etc once, she mentioned that she had seen one of the Russian ships, but sometime later she told me she now didn't think it was Russian at all, and finally gave me more details. Driving on a country road they saw a craft land in the field beside them. They can't recall if the car stopped running or if my uncle parked it. There was a classic saucer shaped craft, with port holes in it, and they believed there were people visible looking out. They both recalled that it was exceptionally silent at the time. The craft flew off in the direction of a remote harbor area which has been the subject of many sightings over the years, a favorite area of author Bruce Cathie. We also discovered later that the farmer who owned that piece of land had called investigators in to look at a burned circular patch in his field.
I have never seen anything I consider unexplained or unidentifiable myself, but I don't know what to make of my grandmother's recollection of an encounter with a vehicle she was pretty damned sure nobody was supposed to have at the time. I'm also not inclined to blame 'aliens' for anything odd which may be seen flying about in our skies, that is an awfully big jump to make from 'not a technology I believe humans have right now'.
If the 'parent' AI kept telling the 'child' AI when it was right or wrong, wouldn't it just need to compile it's own database of the identified pictures?
"Currently we have an average of over five hundred images per node."
It refers to a biological study of long-necked African wildlife.
But what a cool trick to make the next release feel faster.
That really is the only significance of the story. We have known this for decades. Everybody has that relative that you shouldn't let drink gin.
Yeah, forget about combat robot competitions, this is a whole new challenge.
I tried the 30 day free trial, in New Zealand. I could only find 1 tv show that it would allow me to watch. Nothing else was viewable in my location. The "thousands of tv shows and movies" is all false advertising as far as I can see. They could at least add a search filter to show only content available in my country, I could not find that option anywhere.
Movie rental prices weren't too impressive, from the few I looked up, but then I didn't try renting one because I couldn't tell if I would be allowed to view it in my location either.
I'm usually quite happy to wait. Most of my Ali purchases are hobby related and I can plan ahead without urgency.
When the local retailers here in NZ are charging up to 15 times the cost of a simple computer part, I feel it is becoming immoral to support them.
There is a retailer association that goes stomping and shouting to the government about being threatened by online purchasing because we are not paying the goods and services tax (GST) which local retailers have to add to their prices, but the fact is that even accounting for that additional tax, the local prices are still usually 5 to 10 times what an online seller can offer, and often much more. I have not researched how much more or less a local retailer would have to pay for shipping goods here in bulk, as opposed to the single packages I have delivered, or the cost of storage and showroom space, or how much the greed-markup has to be to make them feel safe, but I still feel disinclined to support them when there is an alternative.
I'm not likely to start ordering masses of junk just because somebody someplace has named a special day, but I will certainly be checking out the discounts.
omg how can you watch that crap? when my niece turns on children shows on netflix I can hardly bare to stay in the house. that is some mindless annoying shit on there.
The article clearly shows they not talking about adhesive processes. There are a variety of techniques with many different names being used in industry, medical, dental etc.
You could try searching on Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) or Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS).
There are also some very cool looking machines doing Hybrid Metal Laser Sintering & Milling, combining both additive and subtractive processes.
The results are often not as solid as a cast metal, maybe, but that depends on the metals and processes used.
There are food printers, you can print with chocolate!! What could be more important than that?
I would electrify the controls which are not enabled, then if somebody tried to use the wrong one there would be instance feedback without relying on visual indicators.
Yes but if you had more than one control, and one stopped working, wouldn't your first thought be to try the other one?
I can't accept everybody just ran about waving their hands in the air shouting "we've lost steering control".
I agree it is reasonable to expect an indicator of which device is active, and preferably each inactive device should have an indicator to show which one was in use, couldn't take more than a few Arduino's and some LEDs. heh.
The company said it plans to produce 10% fewer units of its Model S and Model X models in the fourth quarter
Is it just me or does that sound like a small reduction, not really qualifying as "slashes production" at all?
Shouldn't there be a journalistic rule for when something qualifies as slashing, say maybe over 50%?
Lets not get too melodramatic with the headlines.
I found it quite enjoyable on the PSVR using the ds4 controller. The options for flight sticks are multitudes higher than I'm currently prepared to pay.
But I think the most fun was getting familiar with the the game, doing the tutorials, then trying out some real online games.
After the first few hours of that tho, the gameplay lost it's initial buzz, there was no voice feed from team members and very little clue as to what the team was up to. This led to boredom eventually and strangely I find that, while I am waiting for a really good single player VR game to come out for PSVR, I have not been all that interested in going back to flatscreen gaming either, so my gaming habit has been cut down drastically.
Still, the Valkyrie environment is impressive and immersive, the movement is fantastic and amazed me with how little it bothered me, there was no nausea in comparison with getting used to Driveclub VR. It just needed something to make you feel immersed in a team as well as a spaceship.
The biggest problem I have now is the headgear needs a fast flip-back, you need to be able to enjoy a drink while gaming and I'm not going to suck my beer or whiskey thru a straw.
Good on ya. Still using my first purchased i3-clone with 200x200x200 builds.
I really enjoy taking an idea or rough sketch into CAD and producing a solid lump of plastic from it. Some things have been useful bits around the house, some time and prototyping for my first experiments in Arduino based robotics, plus a lot of decorations, un-needed keyring decorations and failed prints.
I don't know why people above complained about the wasted expenses on filament, it's pretty damned cheap these days if you order from the right sources. As a hobby it has been cheap, while it kept me happy and busy, to the extent that my lifelong gaming habit has been almost ended. Tho not quite : ) But when I sit down after work for some relaxation time, the choice between gaming or playing with CAD usually leads to more CAD tutorials and experimentation.
I must have been exceptionally lucky to work for an employer who also understood the importance of having a solid team of testers working closely with the developers.
For a start we had to make sure that nothing a user could type into a text entry could break the web page or the database, either on the way in or when coming back out to be displayed, be it the most basic issues like apostrophes in user names or HTML tags and such.
Then the testers had to learn all sorts of clever tricks to get around our best efforts to stop them breaking our code. This included SQL injection and other web-page breaking techniques.
If a company has mission-critical systems being developed and deployed via HTML, then they need to take responsibility for testing and penetration-testing the solutions, not just smacking out the fastest cheapest solution.
If you get the chance to work alongside good testers, make them your friends and make sure you challenge each other, taking into consideration both the crazy things your regular users can do and the malicious things others may attempt.
No, but they have just put a big curse on the project, thats some big oops to come.