> Physicians need to have it pounded into them that every hallucination is downstream harm.
I think any person using 'AI' knows it makes mistakes. In a medical note, there are often errors at present. A consumer of a medical note has to decide what makes sense and what to ignore, and AI isn't meaningfully changing that. If something matters, it's asked again in follow up.
This is because we’re paying people to get into shape to the point where they can be considered for service. And that began before the current presidential administration, who I think are planning to cancel this initiative
Are there good command-line interfaces for spreadsheets? I don't do anything super financially-important and I'd prefer to stay in the terminal for quick editing of things, especially if I can have Vi keybindings.
Neat, thank you! sc-im looks amazing, and it's even in the Fedora repos (though the repo version doesn't support xlsx, so I'll compile myself and try it out)
Edit: Quite painless! Opened some test xlsx files without issue. Did get a stack trace on a very complicated one, so when I have time I'll try and dig in deeper. Added a doc to the wiki in case it's helpful to other: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/wiki/Building-sc%E2%80...
It's weird but visidata is my favorite spreadsheet.
"But... visidata is not a spreadsheet"
I know, that's what makes it so weird.
On contemplation, I think I grew dissatisfied with the normal spreadsheet data model, I wanted something bettered structured than the "it's a big bag of cells" that spreadsheets present, I wanted row security. The best I found was the relational database. I currently use a local postgres db for most things I would have used a spreadsheet for. The interfaces sort of suck in comparison but at least I have sane data structures.
I want to mention teapot. First an apology, it's not actually a good match for for question, sure, it's a curses spreadsheet, but it was made by someone who thought about the fundamentals of the problem a little too much. So it is probably a little too weird for someone who just wants to spreadsheet as Dan Bricklin intended.
In short cell address are normalized @(1,2,3) instead of A1 or r1c1. real references so address rewriting hacks($A$1) are not needed. formula references so you can use a single master formula, and clocked expressions which allow circular dependencies/simulation.
Probably a little too different for casual use but worth taking a look at, if nothing else to challenge your ideas of what a spreadsheet has to be.
While looking up the website I found a rewrite in rust, which is cool I guess, someone is keeping the dream alive, I will leave a link to that as well.
This might be programmer-brain, but I find sqlite is pretty nice for things people would use a spreadsheet for. It’s a little bit higher friction, but when I started designing a Improv-like terminal spreadsheet a while ago, I eventually realized I was just reinventing databases.
A slightly larger implementation at the end of the post does that to some extent - https://github.com/zserge/kalk (CSV import export, Excel-like "locking" of rows/columns like $A$1). If there's a need for such a project - I'm happy to add ODF or XLSX, more compatibility with Excel formulas etc. I'm not sure about Vi keybindings, I personally find spreadsheets easier to use in a non-modal manner.
Pretty sure I can build one based on code I already have. If others are interested in this, please let me know and I'll bang it out in the next couple of weeks.
> kinda the same technique Democrats want to use as well with their "pack the SCOTUS" campaigns. They want to shove a bunch more justices in there so they can get their way.
> I hate how weaponized each side is.
To be clear, one of these things has happened. The other has been hyped on Fox News.
It is really a stretch to "Both Sides" this issue.
> so if after all that I'm still not clear on what is meant by academic research or the point in the practice as presented to me during that time it's hardly my fault.
Perhaps, but the mindset of delegating your intellectual advancement to others really is not compatible with being in academia, let alone getting a PhD.
Apologies if that's the way I'm coming across, my intent was the opposite. My mindset isn't one of delegating my intellectual advancement to others, my experience of academia is that academia actively stifled it. I almost dropped out of my bachelors be ause I felt I wasn't learning anything, but my wife talked me out of it.
I'm certainly interested in learning and exploring and finding out stuff, but my experience so far is that the academic processes stand in the way of this.
> San Diego does have a bunch of health tech, but it pales in comparison to Boston.
I don't have firm data on this, but colloquially among medical people, San Diego is seen to have more biotech startups than any other metro, including Boston/SF.
Boston has more research, of course, though SD is competitive there as well.
We can disagree about numbers etc, but 'pales' doesn't reflect reality.
I have worked in tech in many different cities and when I worked for a startup in San Diego, we were surrounded by health tech companies of all sizes. I've never worked in Boston, but I would say San Diego is definitely a health tech hub.
> And so the dilemma is, do I say something to him? He looks like he is in awful health and high probability with an awful diet (based on profiling him). But I don’t interact with him or have any type of relationship and saying something would be incredibly awkward. Surely he knows I tell myself.
It's an interesting question—if you have knowledge about human health based on a person's appearance, do you share that information? I think a physician may not do that for a stranger, but I imagine you aren't a physician.
As part of a speculative fiction project I have imagined this scenario playing out many times over as people who wear AR-style displays have, eg, melanomas pointed out to them on bodies of people who don’t wear and are unsure if they should say something.
> What percentage of the market actually pays it this way?
The only way this can make sense mathematically is if you're including children, seniors, and/or the ill—populations who are unable to work. What is your reference?
Pew Research says just under 7% of the population uses the exchanges to buy insurance. Overall, about 36% of the population is on public healthcare, according to Census.gov. KFF says that about 80% of the working population, plus or minus, gets insurance through their employer, with an average of $570/month out-of-pocket for premiums.
These numbers are incommensurate in a way that may not be obvious.
7% of the population doesn't tell you what population fraction is covered by such policies.
36% coverage is even harder—every child in the US is eligible for Medicaid, and such children may not always need it, or may move states after using Medicaid, in a way that makes them doubly counted.
80% of the working population is also less clear; is that 80% of policy-holders get their own policy through their own job? Or 80% of working-age people have a policy through some workplace, even if they are not working?
I think any person using 'AI' knows it makes mistakes. In a medical note, there are often errors at present. A consumer of a medical note has to decide what makes sense and what to ignore, and AI isn't meaningfully changing that. If something matters, it's asked again in follow up.
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