pythko

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by pythko 2y ago
I think you and the parent comment are talking about different scales. A large SaaS company deal could be $300k per month per customer , and the sales process for a company like that can involve changing the software to meet the needs of t
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by pythko 3y ago
I really like this idea, and would love to subscribe when you’re ready! I think many commenters have pointed out reasons why this model is not suited to widespread user adoption, but I just want to say that may not be a bad thing. Meme cont
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by pythko 3y ago
I agree; I’ve had multiple instances recently of booking through a third party where getting changes or refunds is very slow and clunky, if they will even do it at all. Contrast that to my experience with booking a hotel directly through th
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by pythko 3y ago
It’s free to end consumer, but these schemes make money by charging a percentage to merchants. And those merchants will compensate by bumping up their prices a little to cover the transaction costs. In the best case, these are pointless ser
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by pythko 3y ago
I found this video to be a good explainer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JaMRpcDrQ&pp=ygUbQnV5IG5vIHB... It seems like many of them act like credit cards and charge the merchant a percentage, since they “drive consump
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by pythko 3y ago
You seem to be the lucky lightning rod comment on this! I guess it's fitting that the tech world gets particularly up in arms about this; we're certainly a group who enjoys demanding standardization while refusing to change our ow
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by pythko 3y ago
I've settled on the explanation that this is just a cultural difference, and anyone arguing from a place of "logic" or "correctness" is refusing to accept that it's all convention, and different people do thing
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by pythko 4y ago
And the 1975! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0E_uK01odHg Based on the context of the title, I had just assumed petrichor was the name of an artist or something. Glad to know the real definition!
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by pythko 4y ago
Executive summaries are part of the industry, where people boil down non-fiction books into short pieces of text. E.g. Blinkist (not affiliated, just the first result on Google) It is somewhat funny that presumably a good amount of work goe
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by pythko 4y ago
In a hospital setting, nurses and doctors round regularly. No one is talking about using AI as a replacement for that, because no one has anything approaching that much trust in predictive models. Predictive models are most often used as e
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by pythko 4y ago
I think what you described falls under #2 in my reply. “Doing it well” is not a trivial option that people are ignoring; “doing it well” is the thing people are trying to solve. AI is not a magic bullet that always makes everything better.
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by pythko 4y ago
I can tell you that the current focuses of AI implementations are around real, impactful issues: sepsis risk, readmission risk, deterioration index, etc. The problems with AI in healthcare are: 1) People don’t want it to be a black box - th
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by pythko 4y ago
They are finally reaching the point of rolling out their new clients that get off Visual Basic, so that’s something. M, however, ends up being a combined database/business logic platform (and it’s fairly speedy at that, if that’s what
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by pythko 4y ago
I don’t think Epic’s install costs are secret or a “gotcha”. Any administrator interested in Epic can look at 20 years of installs and see that an Epic implementation is routinely a multi year, $100 million+ project for large organizations.
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by pythko 4y ago
Some college guys I know rode 200 miles around essentially a big roundabout (the loop length was probably less than 300 meters) at 20mph. When asked why they did it, they basically just shrugged and said they thought it would be a cool ch
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by pythko 4y ago
I wish the author the best on their reading journey! I feel like this article shares a valuable experience, and I would encourage anyone who's on the fence or who views literature as a waste of time to give it an earnest try. Jumping s
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by pythko 4y ago
I'd recommend Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang [0]. It's often billed as "speculative fiction", and I'd describe it as a series of short stories that define worlds slightly-to-extremely dissimilar to ou
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by pythko 4y ago
I think the parent's comment was saying to find reviewers whose tastes align with your own, then trust their reviews for new content. This requires 1) that the media they publish through prints the name of the author; 2) when you read
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by pythko 4y ago
He’s said that he thinks his method of typing works fine and doesn’t lead to repetitive stress injuries, so he prefers it. I don’t remember which specific videos he said that in off the top of my head, though.
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by pythko 4y ago
Econtalk had a recent episode [0] that discusses this problem and the limitations when applied to real life. There's also a transcript [1] for those who prefer reading. I found the discussion (and the entire episode) to be a nice refle
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by pythko 4y ago
I don’t really understand that idea of complexity, but Rick Beato is addressing this song from a music theory perspective, and I think this song would meet anyone’s definition of complex when it comes to theory.
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by pythko 4y ago
I don’t think that’s the obvious takeaway. The specific chord voicings are complicated, sure, but the complexity he’s talking about are the key changes and unexpected tonal choices. You can’t remove those without fundamentally changing the
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by pythko 5y ago
I’m curious for more details on what your templating system was and how it worked. If you’re up for sharing, I’d love to hear about it. I know the aforementioned EMR puts a lot of emphasis on their After Visit Summaries, which sounds somewh
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by pythko 5y ago
The 12-TET certainly has some neat mathematical properties, but my point is that it’s not the only way to decide what “notes” are. It’s an interesting debate on whether there’s something fundamental to this particular approach that sounds g
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by pythko 5y ago
It is artificial, in the sense that the western twelve tone scale is essentially arbitrary (why not 6? why not 16?), and it is a constraint in the sense that what most people consider “in tune” is defined by what they’ve gotten used to hear
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by pythko 5y ago
Traditional western music assigns 12 notes to an octave using a tuning known as Twelve Tone Equal Temperament[1]. These twelve tones include whole tones and semitones. The vast majority of western music is composed exclusively using these t
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by pythko 5y ago
Seconding your experience, except my battery life has been quite good somehow. I’m not sure if that’s due to one of the settings I changed when setting it up, OS (I’m using Pop!_OS), or just luck of the draw. My touchpad will also just stop
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by pythko 5y ago
Much of the conversation so far in the comments has ignored the context of that sentence in the article: > He called out my mistakes using words like “crazy,” “nuts,” “ridiculous,” and “stupid.” > The harsh words stung at first, and c
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by pythko 5y ago
In the article, the author says "The harsh words stung at first, and caused me to question whether I belonged in theoretical physics." What prevented the author taking this to heart? "In the next breath, he would always be en
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by pythko 5y ago
> or rather, I don't know how they continue to find enough reward in the activity to make up for the deprivation, repetition. I totally feel you on this. I’ve done a reasonable amount of backpacking, and more and more, I’m not sure

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