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Show HN: I built a tool to send ArXiv papers to Kindle unharmed

pdfling.com
1 points·by rasmus1610·il y a 5 mois·1 comments

We Don't Build the Machines Anymore

blog.mariusvach.com
5 points·by rasmus1610·il y a 6 mois·0 comments

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rasmus1610
·il y a 2 heures·discuss
some may argue for ghostty but yeah :)
rasmus1610
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
but those are two different things. Of course something like Deep Resolve is great, as are modern model based reconstruction algorithms for CTs, but here we are talking about LLMs and their ability to interpret medical images, which has nothing to do with what you said.
rasmus1610
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
As a radiologist I have found Claude and ChatGPT to be absolutely terrible at MRI and I would not trust it one bit. It has its merits if you need to research stuff that is more text based, but radiological images is just something that they cannot interpret good enough (yet)
rasmus1610
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
we don't even need AI for that: https://3dqlab.stanford.edu/what-is-volume-rendering/
rasmus1610
·il y a 25 jours·discuss
It will be terrible for brain imaging. The ultrasound waves can’t go through the skull and thus can’t image the brain. Additionally you would have to drown the patient since you need a medium other than air between the ultrasound emitting probe and the body which is water in their device.

CT is more than sufficient for imaging the brain in a case of trauma and MRI is not automatically better than CT in every case.

(I am a neuroradiologist)
rasmus1610
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
it is more like that the brain learns to use other regions or neurons to do the tasks of the dead brain cells. The brain cells that are dead due to ischemia are dead and will usually be collected by microglia and after some time there are defects in the brain where the ischemia was.
rasmus1610
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
This is such an exciting direction :)

Jeremy Howard from fast.ai/answer.ai also works on similar stuff with solveit (https://solve.it.com) and ipyai (https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/ipyai)

I think it will be very interesting to see what this enables
rasmus1610
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
I mean what is the alternative here?

Mario maintains the project pro bono, which is only possible because he had an exit a couple of years ago. I believe it is a lot of work making sure that the quality of the codebase doesn't detoriate with the onslaught of slop that is hitting open source projects right now.

Additionally, I have massive respect for Armin and I don't believe Earandil is your typical VC startup that wants to grow no matter what.
rasmus1610
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Maybe Chris Lattner leaving and creating Mojo also didn’t help in that regard.

Swift for TensorFlow was a cool idea in that time …
rasmus1610
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
Hey HN, I'm Marius, an AI researcher and radiologist.

I read a lot of ArXiv papers on my Kindle Scribe, but other tools for sending PDFs to Kindle completely scramble math equations and tables.

I built PDFling to bypass that. It just takes the ArXiv URL and sends the raw, unharmed PDF directly to your device via Whispernet.

It's a simple scratch-my-own-itch project, but I figured others here might find it useful.

I'd love to hear your feedback :)
rasmus1610
·il y a 5 mois·discuss
So many people are so salty, it’s wild. That’s peak HN here
rasmus1610
·il y a 6 mois·discuss
Very happy to see that I am not the only one. My pro subscription lasts maybe 30 minutes for the 5 hour limit. It is completely unusable and that's why I actually switched to OpenCode + GLM 4.7 for my personal projects and. It's not as clever as Opus 4.5 but it often gets the job done anyway
rasmus1610
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
https://pdfling.com

A service to send pdfs to your kindle device through a chrome extension or web app.
rasmus1610
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
Really enjoyed your talk two years ago :)
rasmus1610
·l’année dernière·discuss
Yes, good point. Although the traffic for these websites is so small, that I think I‘m good there for a long time.
rasmus1610
·l’année dernière·discuss
I’m a doctor myself and thus have contacts to people having medical practices :)

But at least in Germany there are some agencies doing nothing else.
rasmus1610
·l’année dernière·discuss
I recently build a website for a medical practice using Astro.

I was amazed by how easy it was compared to my experience with Wordpress for this several years ago.

And I can host it for free on something like Netlify and I don’t need to worry about the site being hacked, like with WP.

I even built a very simple git-based CMS so that the client can update the content themselves.

Web dev has really come a long way, despite what a lot of people say.