I remember as an undergrad we would hold our yearly casino night at our dorm. The math and physics professors would sit down and clear us out. Good thing max bets were $2.
If I knew about card counting then...
Buzz (Aldrin) says that the hypergolic fuel remaining on the shuttle looks like brown cloud. He says stay away because it will coat the inside of your lungs and asphyxiate you within 48 hrs.
Just like any other lazy pc do-it-yourselfer I failed to place the covers on the eisa card slots on an old 486 that I had in my basement
One morning it wouldn't boot up and I decided to open it up to see what was going on. It could only be described as a nest with the owner nowhere to be seen. Dryer lint had been formed into a cozy area over the cpu and memory. The power supply cables where turned into makeshift chewsticks.
Needless to say, I inspected the components, replaced the power supply, and replaced the modem which seemed to have shorted out due to mouse urine. Power on -> Post -> login:
Moral of the story: those card slot covers make good mouse deterrents.
I caught another critter last month but, that's another story
Using computers for diagnosis is not new. Work on it began in the late 1960's and the commercial results of the research can be found in PKC as well as QMR, Iliad, and DxPlain.
There have been many evaluations of these systems. Most point out that the computers do as well or slightly better than the docs. So why don't we see them in your neighborhood doctor's office? Personally, I think it will happen. It's all part of the evolution of medicine and techology.
A illustrative timeline: - First docs were the keepers of the knowledge, "Do what I say." - Medical Knowledge get's too big for the human brain. Knowledge bases and expert systems are developed to help out docs. Docs like the knowledge bases - MEDLINE, etc. Docs don't use expert systems because it's not integrated into their workflow. They were relegated as teaching tools and for difficult cases. - Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are developed for doctors. - Patients get access to the knowledge. (I've seen more and more patient's walk in with more printouts from the internet over the years) - Patients start getting access to EMR (Yes, this is happening) - Patients get access to the expert systems
Most doctor's don't see these systems as being well integrated enough into medical practice to use them. After all, it's been relatively recent (but not pervasive) that your doctor was entering your info into an EMR. EMRs already integrate some aspects of medical decision support (particularily patient management) and yes the HMOs see this as good to reduce costs.
The negative reaction of doctors to these systems is by no means universal. I know docs who use these systems whenever they just "can't figure it out" and medical students have been using them for awhile. I think that there is less arrogance now that patients actually have decent information.
Again, giving the expert system to the patient was bound to happen. The evolution of the doctor as an integrator of information, from any source, is bound to happen as well.
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I remember as an undergrad we would hold our yearly casino night at our dorm. The math and physics professors would sit down and clear us out. Good thing max bets were $2. If I knew about card counting then...
This is a really great idea. Plus, it would prevent shoplifting of space shuttles!
I just wonder where you would actually put the RFID in the tile. I'm not sure if when a tile "fails" it comes off or gets it's top grazed off, etc.
Buzz (Aldrin) says that the hypergolic fuel remaining on the shuttle looks like brown cloud. He says stay away because it will coat the inside of your lungs and asphyxiate you within 48 hrs.
Just like any other lazy pc do-it-yourselfer I failed to place the covers on the eisa card slots on an old 486 that I had in my basement
One morning it wouldn't boot up and I decided to open it up to see what was going on. It could only be described as a nest with the owner nowhere to be seen. Dryer lint had been formed into a cozy area over the cpu and memory. The power supply cables where turned into makeshift chewsticks.
Needless to say, I inspected the components, replaced the power supply, and replaced the modem which seemed to have shorted out due to mouse urine. Power on -> Post -> login:
Moral of the story: those card slot covers make good mouse deterrents.
I caught another critter last month but, that's another story
Using computers for diagnosis is not new. Work on it began in the late 1960's and the commercial results of the research can be found in PKC as well as QMR, Iliad, and DxPlain. There have been many evaluations of these systems. Most point out that the computers do as well or slightly better than the docs. So why don't we see them in your neighborhood doctor's office? Personally, I think it will happen. It's all part of the evolution of medicine and techology.
A illustrative timeline:
- First docs were the keepers of the knowledge, "Do what I say."
- Medical Knowledge get's too big for the human brain. Knowledge bases and expert systems are developed to help out docs. Docs like the knowledge bases - MEDLINE, etc. Docs don't use expert systems because it's not integrated into their workflow. They were relegated as teaching tools and for difficult cases.
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are developed for doctors.
- Patients get access to the knowledge. (I've seen more and more patient's walk in with more printouts from the internet over the years)
- Patients start getting access to EMR (Yes, this is happening)
- Patients get access to the expert systems
Most doctor's don't see these systems as being well integrated enough into medical practice to use them. After all, it's been relatively recent (but not pervasive) that your doctor was entering your info into an EMR. EMRs already integrate some aspects of medical decision support (particularily patient management) and yes the HMOs see this as good to reduce costs.
The negative reaction of doctors to these systems is by no means universal. I know docs who use these systems whenever they just "can't figure it out" and medical students have been using them for awhile. I think that there is less arrogance now that patients actually have decent information.
Again, giving the expert system to the patient was bound to happen. The evolution of the doctor as an integrator of information, from any source, is bound to happen as well.