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  • They are testing quite a few things atm. Radiology image recognition is definitely there. But is this what the phone wavers are accessing? No. The Google search bot and the bots being tested are two different things.

    I wouldn’t get too excited about the future of AI in medicine, not given the level of venture capital and such in medicine already.

    LLMs are programs that can be tuned by people who have not sworn an oath or spent 12 dedicated years and $250k debt to pursue medicine. What will motivate how these bots are tuned? Publicity and PR can create excitement, but what have the last 30years of medicine taught us? Even the radiology bot can be “turned down” in ways a human rarely would allow.

    Profit speaks. Profit drives. Profit decides patient care levels and outcomes. What keeps it afloat are the people clawing back at administrators. Don’t underestimate the power of angry nurses or pushy physicians in just how much they’ve kept healthcare afloat. For you. While admin battles them from the shadows in the name of profit.

    What they don’t mention among the many bots being tested is the EOLI, or, End Of Life Index. The most used electronic medical record had a bot introduced this year, unannounced, that is a probability predictor of a patient dying in the next 6 month. The mouse over admonishes caregivers not to discuss this with patients or families as it may upset them. Does/will the EOLI factor into insurance decision making?






  • I never bought living room items there. I’ve stayed in enough airbnbs to know it’s mostly uncomfortable crap. I always saw it as a place to go for organizer items to fit spaces that don’t cost a lot of time or material. They’re also good on glass food storage of all kinds. They also used to sell cotton sheets, down comforters, and pillows worth a damn.

    I did buy an off the shelf counter for $80. 6ft length. Seemed like a decent deal compared to big box. The difference was as you said. Where the big box with Formica does last, for years, this thing was toast after a little water spilled on, as happens with counters. The edging apparently has no seal and it fell off rather quickly. Not a deal. Get regular laminate at big box, if you want a basic counter that can take any wear and tear. A butcher block counter lasts longer, and they’re notorious for not lasting.






  • IKEA is supposed to be affordable, by definition, and lately it’s not worth it.

    There was the little wood shelf for $2.99. For spice jars or whatever. I couldn’t make it for that so why bother? Buy it instead. Now they want $8.99 for those bits of pine when I can get a 2x4 for $6 and make a stack of them. (There’s probably a shitty YouTube video in there somewhere.)

    The quality has dropped too. I bought a decent monochrome 8’x10’ area rug. Cotton backing, edged in banding on that backing to prevent fray, dense pile. $100. It has held up well 3 years later. Went back to buy another recently. They didn’t carry it, the closest they have now is $200 and it isn’t built nearly as well.