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singularineet t1_j9yio45 wrote
Reply to comment by sksksk1989 in TIL about Janet Parker, the last person to die of smallpox in 1978. She worked above one of the last labs in its last months of permission to study the virus. The day Janet's viral strain was confirmed, Henry Bedson, the doctor in charge of the lab, took his own life. by w0mpum
He was not found guilty in a court of law, posthumously. That is very different from it not being his fault or his responsibility.
singularineet t1_j9p6onx wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Flooded with AI-created content, a sci-fi magazine suspends submissions by AmHoomon
>You know what's worse than AI stealing our jobs? Paywalls
Their podcast is free.
singularineet t1_j710h53 wrote
Reply to [N] Microsoft integrates GPT 3.5 into Teams by bikeskata
No matter how hard they try to whack-a-mole them, the biases of the model will come through, particularly by omission. Example? It's super bad about minimizing Jewish history, or saying awful things about the Holocaust like that it was harmful to both the victims and the perpetrators. It's basically like working with a raging racist who's trying to follow a list of very specifically worded instructions from a woke but low functioning autistic HR dept.
singularineet t1_j5v51j9 wrote
Reply to comment by Adonisbb in A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found by Geek-Haven888
The Poles did not, at the time, consider the Jews to be True Poles. Look at what happened to Jews who tried to return to their homes in Poland after the war to see an example. Plus, the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were not all from Poland.
singularineet t1_j2nopxn wrote
Reply to comment by Forthac in Researchers have discovered a new situation from the everyday environment where our crucial ability to perceive what is truly vertical is compromised: when our body pitches (body pitch) and moves at the same time (body motion) by giuliomagnifico
Came to post this. It is a well known and studied phenomenon. There's even a Bayesian explanation, from like fifteen years ago.
singularineet t1_j0ue8gw wrote
Reply to comment by Good_Beautiful1724 in Amazon 'Saved the Ukrainian Government' With Suitcase-Sized Hard Drives by Mynameis__--__
If the storage system itself is outside your security perimeter, you need encryption.
If you're worried about the reliability of the storage system, you need redundancy. In this case, multiple copies in clouds all over the world.
singularineet t1_j0ub3je wrote
Reply to comment by Good_Beautiful1724 in Amazon 'Saved the Ukrainian Government' With Suitcase-Sized Hard Drives by Mynameis__--__
I'd imagine it was encrypted. There are encryption schemes that allow k-of-n parties to decrypt, which makes the recovery damage resistant but still secure against a small number (<k) traitors.
singularineet t1_j0i47td wrote
Reply to comment by tmblweeds in [P] Medical question-answering without hallucinating by tmblweeds
Right.
Obviously there's an NLP issue going on, where the "rare" in the quoted snippet is scoped to the complication under discussion.
singularineet t1_j0hjtub wrote
Just asked it:
>Does varicela zoster cause DVTs?
and it replied:
>Varicella zoster is rarely associated with deep venous thrombosis (DVTs).
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>Supporting excerpt
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>“Frequently, these complications involve intracranial and extracranial arteries leading to ischemic stroke, cerebral aneurysm formation, subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebral vasculitis, and giant cell arteritis. Symptoms involving veins, such as cerebral sinus thrombosis, deep venous thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism, are rare.”
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>Study
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>Varicella-Zoster Virus Vasculitis: A Case Report of Enteric Reactivation with Vasculopathy Leading to Arterial Dissection, Stroke, and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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>Donohoe et al.
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>Archives of Clinical and Medical Case Reports
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>Invalid Date
This is all completely wrong. Varicella Zoster (aka the Chicken Pox virus) causes a period of hypercoagulability in adults which causes DVTs and pulmonary embolisms reasonably often. It's well documented, although most doctors are not familiar with it. So that part of the response is wrong. And the study it cites (a) does not support it's answer, and (b) is not relevant.
edit: this is the kind of wrong answer that can kill people.
singularineet t1_iz5q79f wrote
Reply to comment by tchumbae in [R] The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations [Geoffrey Hinton] by shitboots
Other relevant prior work: arXiv:2202.0887, Gradients without Backpropagation, by Atılım Güneş Baydin et al, 2022
singularineet t1_ivsrvzj wrote
Reply to [D] Is there an advantage in learning when taking the average Gradient compared to the Gradient of just one point by CPOOCPOS
Yes, since the input point is uncertain due to measurement noise if nothing else, averaging over that distribution would be superior.
If you can average over other interesting distributions, like shifts or rotations or such for images, or even under a local approximation thereof, that would be amazing. Is that possible with quantum?
singularineet t1_iuy45z9 wrote
Reply to comment by deltahalo241 in Denver firefighters suspended for getting woman pronounced dead even though she was alive by xraygun2014
Don't be a baby, you'll be dead soon.
singularineet t1_jds6228 wrote
Reply to Research found after six years spent tracking health outcomes among nearly 925,000 Danish seniors, investigators determined that when a man between the ages of 65 and 69 loses his wife he is 70% more likely to die in the year that follows, when compared with his non-widowed peers by Wagamaga
It's really really hard to control for confounds in studies like this. Some latent variable can decrease both life expectancies, husband and wife. E.g., black mold in the house, or poor eating habits, poor exercise, even common genetic factors if people tend to marry others who are genetically similar. Carbon monoxide issues from the heating system or in the car. Similar attitudes toward risky behaviour. Common sources of stress. Similar sleep habits. You can spitball this stuff all day, but unless you do a controlled study (which would seem unethical in this case) you're still going to have a lot of doubt about causality.