So a little bit of context... this is actually a fairly active area of research and has been for decades. I know people who have been using AI techniques to try to predict readmissions probabilities since the 90s, and some of them have gone on to develop these into commercial products that hospitals use today... so the story here really is not the use case but instead the incremental improvement of this particular corner of AI. I am actually just getting off a project that was trying to apply another area within AI to the same basic problem, though since we were using agent based modeling we probably will not get much attention.
And this stuff is honestly pretty useful. It helps earmark which patients might need a bit of extra monitoring or guidance, or which ones might benefit from having a nurse check in on them at home. It means figuring out where to proactively spend limited human resources in order to decrease the chances someone is going to end up right back in your ER. Good stuff.
As someone who's entire job is taking scientist's algorithms and explaining them to computers, number of lines of code contributes has nothing to do with how much of the 'brains' one is behind something.
Even worse, there are some cases where it doesn't even give you the 'Proceed to x (unsafe)' link anymore. It makes dealing with outdate (gasp only a few years old!) embedded devices REALLY frustrating.
It is always kinda scary to see individual companies acting as peers or even superiors to entire nations like this. The idea of a single private entity getting an entire gTLD for its own private use instead of it going to a general usage or geographic region should have been laughed out of the suggestion box. While I am not surprised that ICANN seriously entertained the idea, I am annoyed.
Yeah, and after we hit this kind of market people will start predicting the end of the virtual desktop. We've been here before, and we'll be here again, with markets shifting around based off how people are currently using technology and where data centres are in their lifecycle.
Meh, conservatives and nationalists are just pissed off that the world is no longer their exclusive 'safe space' and that they are no longer free to indoctrinate however they see fit with no competition. Isn't it funny how they tend to accuse 'marxists' of doing exactly what they want to do and are upset at resistance?
Well no, they make money by selling ad space to other companies. Thus the have an interest in showing or not showing what makes their customers happy. Censorship is a core part of their business model.
Ahm... you do realize dogfights still happen? They are how you stop someone from stopping your bombers and still comes up in current wars. Just not among 'great powers' since we have not been fighting each other. Tanks are also still in heavy use in modern conflicts.
TBH, it is hard to predict what warfare would be like today between wealthy nations that have attackable logistics. For that matter, drones have not really proven themselves in actual war, only in the 'rich country shooting at poor country that can't afford countermeasures'.
Eh, I would not really call that a modern infection, but an old slowly dieing one. The sex negative branch of feminism has bit by bit fading and has been for decades. It just keeps getting more and more focus by anti-feminists. But within feminism it is next to extinct.
yet when you got into MGTOW spaces, pretty much all they talk about is women and how much they want sex. MGTOW only ever seem to complain about women daring to exist in their world for anything other than sex.
Years ago I worked for a company that built embedded systems that ran for a few thousand dollars apiece, and there were arguments about changes in washers or screen padding that changed the price by maybe a dozen cents. Hardware designers and the people who approve the designs for manufacturing can be surprisingly pennywise and pound foolish.
Though to be fair, there were other things that seemed tiny (like placement of a support or a cable length) but could produce multi-hundred dollar differences in manufacturing cost due to how it would change things like logistics or tooling, so sometimes stuff that seems like it should be cheap can make huge differences.
The person is referring to the scoping rules in python not being like the scoping rules in C/Java/etc. It is only really a 'gotchya' if you have learned one set of rules and transition over to Python without learning it uses another one. But basically, in Python such a mistake can affect data that someone from a C/Java/etc background would consider out of scope but isn't.
This is the general problem with these 'unexpected behavior' type discussions, they make sense or not depending on what other languages the person is referring from and what hidden assumptions about behavior they have.
I think something streaming services are slowly figuring out is that piracy was never really about the cost, but the convenience. It wasn't just a cheaper product, but a superior one.
I wonder how they convince Amazon, Netflix, and HBO to allow them to stream their content rather than having customers go to their individual apps/sites/boxes/whatever.
Still, I could see services like this having a place. One of the things that can be frustrating and limiting about these various streaming services is the content customers want is often spread out among multiple services and we have really gotten used to the idea of going to one source for each type of product.
Daft? You are the one who brought up breakers, for that matter you were the one who brought specifics into a general thread. I commented on a general case of designers potentially failing to include a way to disable a system as opposed to temporary overrides since the comment I was responding to was talking about a case of multiple temporary overrides and the system not automatically switching off.
While I can not comment on the specifics here (since it was both software AND a sensor) the thing about software problems is they are not easily fixed by pulling a breaker. In this case there was indeed a way to shut it down, but if it was not such an easily isolated module and was instead more integrated into the plane's control software it might not have been so simple.
Oh yeah. If I was given a budget to spec out a new rig for our sims, I would not go with something like this. On the other hand if such a machine fell in my lap I could make very good use of it.
Though sadly, our sims will probably never support multithreading and scales.. ahm.. odly.... we tend to want a smaller number of higher clocked cores and as much memory/disk write bandwidth as we can get.
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So does that mean that anti-vaxxers should be liable for any adverse effects from not vaccinating?
So a little bit of context... this is actually a fairly active area of research and has been for decades. I know people who have been using AI techniques to try to predict readmissions probabilities since the 90s, and some of them have gone on to develop these into commercial products that hospitals use today... so the story here really is not the use case but instead the incremental improvement of this particular corner of AI. I am actually just getting off a project that was trying to apply another area within AI to the same basic problem, though since we were using agent based modeling we probably will not get much attention.
And this stuff is honestly pretty useful. It helps earmark which patients might need a bit of extra monitoring or guidance, or which ones might benefit from having a nurse check in on them at home. It means figuring out where to proactively spend limited human resources in order to decrease the chances someone is going to end up right back in your ER. Good stuff.
As someone who's entire job is taking scientist's algorithms and explaining them to computers, number of lines of code contributes has nothing to do with how much of the 'brains' one is behind something.
Even worse, there are some cases where it doesn't even give you the 'Proceed to x (unsafe)' link anymore. It makes dealing with outdate (gasp only a few years old!) embedded devices REALLY frustrating.
That still leaves the question though of what good does better hardware do?
It is always kinda scary to see individual companies acting as peers or even superiors to entire nations like this. The idea of a single private entity getting an entire gTLD for its own private use instead of it going to a general usage or geographic region should have been laughed out of the suggestion box. While I am not surprised that ICANN seriously entertained the idea, I am annoyed.
Yeah, and after we hit this kind of market people will start predicting the end of the virtual desktop. We've been here before, and we'll be here again, with markets shifting around based off how people are currently using technology and where data centres are in their lifecycle.
You do realize that if you were not charging those fees to your lab that money could be spent on other resources, right?
Meh, conservatives and nationalists are just pissed off that the world is no longer their exclusive 'safe space' and that they are no longer free to indoctrinate however they see fit with no competition. Isn't it funny how they tend to accuse 'marxists' of doing exactly what they want to do and are upset at resistance?
Well no, they make money by selling ad space to other companies. Thus the have an interest in showing or not showing what makes their customers happy. Censorship is a core part of their business model.
Ahm... you do realize dogfights still happen? They are how you stop someone from stopping your bombers and still comes up in current wars. Just not among 'great powers' since we have not been fighting each other. Tanks are also still in heavy use in modern conflicts.
TBH, it is hard to predict what warfare would be like today between wealthy nations that have attackable logistics. For that matter, drones have not really proven themselves in actual war, only in the 'rich country shooting at poor country that can't afford countermeasures'.
Eh, I would not really call that a modern infection, but an old slowly dieing one. The sex negative branch of feminism has bit by bit fading and has been for decades. It just keeps getting more and more focus by anti-feminists. But within feminism it is next to extinct.
yet when you got into MGTOW spaces, pretty much all they talk about is women and how much they want sex. MGTOW only ever seem to complain about women daring to exist in their world for anything other than sex.
The case is easier to make for industrial tools than consumer entertainment devices.
Ahm.. this is Apple, losing lawsuits is kinda their thing.
Years ago I worked for a company that built embedded systems that ran for a few thousand dollars apiece, and there were arguments about changes in washers or screen padding that changed the price by maybe a dozen cents. Hardware designers and the people who approve the designs for manufacturing can be surprisingly pennywise and pound foolish.
Though to be fair, there were other things that seemed tiny (like placement of a support or a cable length) but could produce multi-hundred dollar differences in manufacturing cost due to how it would change things like logistics or tooling, so sometimes stuff that seems like it should be cheap can make huge differences.
Yeah... with C, today you really only get the illusion of seeing what the assembly would look like on a toy processor from 30 years ago.
The person is referring to the scoping rules in python not being like the scoping rules in C/Java/etc. It is only really a 'gotchya' if you have learned one set of rules and transition over to Python without learning it uses another one. But basically, in Python such a mistake can affect data that someone from a C/Java/etc background would consider out of scope but isn't.
This is the general problem with these 'unexpected behavior' type discussions, they make sense or not depending on what other languages the person is referring from and what hidden assumptions about behavior they have.
Nothing, but people have heard it so many times in the right wing echo chamber that it is taken as a given.
I think something streaming services are slowly figuring out is that piracy was never really about the cost, but the convenience. It wasn't just a cheaper product, but a superior one.
I wonder how they convince Amazon, Netflix, and HBO to allow them to stream their content rather than having customers go to their individual apps/sites/boxes/whatever.
Still, I could see services like this having a place. One of the things that can be frustrating and limiting about these various streaming services is the content customers want is often spread out among multiple services and we have really gotten used to the idea of going to one source for each type of product.
No, it would really be just luck and social networking.
Daft? You are the one who brought up breakers, for that matter you were the one who brought specifics into a general thread. I commented on a general case of designers potentially failing to include a way to disable a system as opposed to temporary overrides since the comment I was responding to was talking about a case of multiple temporary overrides and the system not automatically switching off.
While I can not comment on the specifics here (since it was both software AND a sensor) the thing about software problems is they are not easily fixed by pulling a breaker. In this case there was indeed a way to shut it down, but if it was not such an easily isolated module and was instead more integrated into the plane's control software it might not have been so simple.
Oh yeah. If I was given a budget to spec out a new rig for our sims, I would not go with something like this. On the other hand if such a machine fell in my lap I could make very good use of it.
Though sadly, our sims will probably never support multithreading and scales.. ahm.. odly.... we tend to want a smaller number of higher clocked cores and as much memory/disk write bandwidth as we can get.