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by leonth 2y ago
The same mentality everywhere, really, not just software. Doctors ask "have you ever treated a patient?" Pilots ask "how many flights have you flown?"
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by leonth 2y ago
Because it may be cheap, available, and gasp aligning with China might not be so bad overall compared to alternatives.
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by leonth 4y ago
Opex is "better" than capex, because cash is king. Capex in general means you pay upfront and reap benefits later. Opex in general means you reap benefits now and pay later (via invoice or credit card bill).
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by leonth 4y ago
A business can be EBITDA positive but cashflow negative, or vice versa. However healthly your margin is, it is game over if you are unable to service your debts (including employee salary) before you receive cash from customers/investo
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by leonth 4y ago
I don't understand. Artists can also use these models to generate art, and looking at other industries, there are significant differences between professional output and "machine generated" output. Sort of the difference betw
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by leonth 4y ago
I thought the whole reason for encrypted connections is to deny information as much as possible from intermediaries (ISPs), so those who control servers can hoard all the information to their own benefit?
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by leonth 5y ago
In virtually every country, there exists the definition of legal tender, which basically is the currency that taxes are paid and the currency that courts recognize as viable payment for debts. So really, in FreedomLand, you can work and get
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by leonth 5y ago
I would say it is not about writing style but more about the personality of the author. According to MBTI for example, people are either Thinking (T) or Feeling (F), and I would imagine that strongly Feeling people focus much more on emotio
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by leonth 7y ago
I would imagine that a "real programming language" here means not only any Turing-complete language but also a language that has been consistently at the top 10 most popular programming languages in the world for a while (which ja
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by leonth 10y ago
I have no idea who Jeff Sessions is, but I am sure that the rule tries to make sure that these kind of situations are the exception.
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by leonth 10y ago
First of all, determine what value you bring with the certificates to various parties. In certified fields such as law, accounting, medicine, service providers benefit from high barrier of entry to market and high quality of the profession,
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by leonth 10y ago
> Do the best tools able to solve this in a satisfactory manner(the tool issue, the organizational issue) ? How ? The best solution is I believe relentless continuous manual curation, which is discussed below. Automated tools are rather
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by leonth 10y ago
If only everyone has your mindset. Patients do complain - a lot. They never think that waiting another 1 hour is okay because it makes things safer - what they think is that they (or the insurer / government) have paid us handsomely, t
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by leonth 10y ago
I completely agree, although the attitude at facilities where this has been done extensively is always "how can we reduce the alert/popup/notification burden" because it always invariably slows things down and annoys peo
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by leonth 10y ago
I am not a doctor, but I do have several practical defenses (I don't want to go through political ones). There are many business processes in the healthcare field, and the impact and ease of imposing checklists will be naturally very d
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by leonth 10y ago
This is already being done in a small number of hospitals in the USA and other parts of the world. The problem is mainly the resources (money and time) needed to repackage all the drugs to their own unit doses fast enough. Most of the time
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by leonth 10y ago
It's a question of resources as well. Adding checklists means more time and audit needed. Let's say something initially took 30 secs (due to the muscle memory prowess of the health workers) but by using a checklist it gets down to
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by leonth 11y ago
But among those 65000+ animals, only one has successfully increased its average lifespan significantly in the past 1000+ years. Chief reasons being advancements in sanitation, medicine, and overall diet quality. So "going back to natur
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by leonth 12y ago
I would actually think otherwise. The message format standard commonly used to pass HL7 messages right now are quite easy to parse, it is basically a CSV file using pipes and carets as field separators. Any technology worth integrating righ
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by leonth 12y ago
Besides the counter-examples already mentioned, healthcare is already relatively unsafe - there are more people who die from medical errors compared to plane crashes, despite whole industry focus towards safety. Nobody wants IT experiments
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by leonth 12y ago
I want to add that a lot of value of the EMR system comes from integration - i.e. smooth data flow between touch points / care areas / visits / institutions. So it is rather hard to disrupt the industry using the typical &quo
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by leonth 12y ago
One of the reason why this has been so difficult is the mind-bogglingly high dimensionality of the data. For example, a general medicine physician is interested in the body weight of the patient currently (to dose medications), but a cardio
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by leonth 12y ago
I recently compared various ways to automate Excel with python: http://leontius.net/2014/excel-data-analysis-python/ Xlwings is something I did not know before writing the post, but it does look great and I would
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Excel data analysis with Python(leontius.net)
10 points by leonth 12y ago|1 comments
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by leonth 12y ago
I see, it is indeed quite different. I'm not sure what the Orphan Drug Act specifically says though. Actually if the market is potentially quite large, big pharmas should already be researching it. The problematic ones are those that a
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by leonth 12y ago
I may not be as well-informed as you, but I don't see a problem on those on-label uses you mentioned. If you want to evaluate the safety of a prescription, I hope you have the right degree for that. Things can look safe on one paper an
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by leonth 12y ago
Singapore is not really as litigious a society as US, I don't think there is ever a case where the patient sues the doctor because s/he uses an exemption (non-registered) drug. In some cases the patient probably doesn't even
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by leonth 12y ago
I'm not sure about US law, but there should be a provision like importing a non-licensed drug for a named patient, with declaration from the doctor and pharmacist saying that they bear full responsibility in case anything goes bad. Usi
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by leonth 12y ago
Over-prescription is the problem of the prescribers' and their incentives, not FDA. FDA opens the tap, prescribers put the water in the cup and give to patients. Patients do not access the water directly. Your concern is better directe
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by leonth 12y ago
> One obvious solution would be a government program whose mission is to identify promising treatments for which private incentives don't line up, and shepherd them through the approval process by funding clinical trials and so on Y

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