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LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out

science.org
5 points·by xigoi·6 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Spræ: Hydrate HTML/JSX tree with signal-powered reactive attributes

dy.github.io
2 points·by xigoi·8 miesięcy temu·0 comments

Bands and Bonds

darabos.github.io
1 points·by xigoi·9 miesięcy temu·0 comments

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xigoi
·przedwczoraj·discuss
They meant x = 0.
xigoi
·przedwczoraj·discuss
> Makes for horrible footguns like:

> history[counter % SIZE] = …

The footgun here is that the “modulo” operator does not actually calculate the modulo in C. In Python, this works correctly for negative values.
xigoi
·3 dni temu·discuss
I see it as a generic name for the set of modern ideologies that determine someone’s morality based on how many immutable characteristics they share with people who have historically been oppressed.
xigoi
·3 dni temu·discuss
Classical apex fallacy. Just because 0.0001% of white men have a lot of power doesn’t mean there is any benefit for other white men.
xigoi
·4 dni temu·discuss
> if granted, immediately start downloading their local tileset in the background

Nope. I do not want any app to start downloading hundreds of megabytes without my permission.
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
That said, I think it would be better if the closing delimiter was different from the opening one. Yesterday I had an LLM output text where it forgot one of the delimiters, causing all text inside code blocks to actually be outside and vice-versa.
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
Interesting. When I switched from OsmAnd to Organic, the map loaded much faster as I panned it.
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
> If you look at it as the extensible markup language for documents that it is, "tags" (i.e. inner content) would be visible and "attributes" would not.

  <input type="text" value="Is this text visible?" />
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
> Your comment on typography.

That wasn’t my comment, and GP was presumably referring to things like headings being larger, not some subtle differences that dyslexic people would miss.

> The latter.

Why?
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
> Screw the dyslexic and colourblind, I guess.

You can also use checkmark/cross icons for success/failure. And What does this have to do with dyslexia?

> What's clearer? [Call] or [(telephone receiver emoji) Call]?

We’re arguing about flat vs. skeuomorphic design, so more like:

What's clearer? [(simple phone icon) Call] or [(photorealistic drawing of a telephone receiver) Call]?
xigoi
·5 dni temu·discuss
Much better performance and much less cluttered UI, at the cost of having fewer features.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
The point is that a computer will just be another thing for them to learn, not a replacement for other tools they’ve been using for tens of years. Therefore, the computer does not need to look like those other tools in order to make sense to them.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
The newly born people grow up in a world where computers are already commonplace, so they don’t need to get used to them.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
> pretty low effort, trivially to Google (or ask AI) and generally a bit on the ignorant side

I know the most common reason why people prefer skeuomorphic design (the visual metaphor), which is why my original reply directly addressed this complaint by saying that it’s no longer relevant. Some other complaints I’ve found online are about specific bad instances of flat design rather than flat designs in general. Therefore, I am asking about reasons that don’t fall under these two categories, which I haven’t been able to find.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
> If you're just using an OEM for the "select * from table where ID in ...", then you're saving practically nothing by using an ORM

You’re saving hundreds of lines of repetitive boilerplate code. Do you enjoy writing something like

  users = [
    User(name=name, color=color)
    for name, color
    in db.query("SELECT name, color FROM user")
  ]
over and over?
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
I’m being serious. I find skeuomorphic UIs to be too visually overwhelming compared to flat UIs.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
Ideally, SQL wouldn’t be a wholly different language, but a library with bindings for various languages.
xigoi
·6 dni temu·discuss
What’s wrong with flat UIs? Skeuomorphic designs have served their purpose of helping people get used to computers, but now that is no longer necessary.
xigoi
·11 dni temu·discuss
> There is simply more money invested to make consumer drivers work on NT. Linux is often an afterthought for many consumer device manufacturers. There is still not enough buy-in.

This would not be the case in the hypothetical situation where Windows becomes a Linux distro.
xigoi
·11 dni temu·discuss
What if I want websites to have different fonts because it gives them unique voices? Also, what about websites that use OpenType features only supported by some fonts (small caps, math, variable axes, etc.)?