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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • Yep, exactly.

    As a doctor who’s into tech, before we implemented something like AI-assisted diagnostics, we’d have to consider what the laziest/least educated/most tired/most rushed doctor would do. The tools would have to be very carefully implemented such that the doctor is using the tool to make good decisions, not harmful ones.

    The last thing you want to do is have a doctor blindly approve an inappropriate order suggested by an AI without applying critical thinking and causing harm to a real person because the machine generated a factually incorrect output.


  • Because linux is open source, distro design is iterative. You can build everything from scratch, or you can take someone else’s distro, change a couple things, and maintain your own version. If someone else has already done 90% of the work, you can save lots of time and energy by just starting there and building on it.

    For example, Debian is built from scratch. Ubuntu is derived Debian. Pop!_OS is derived Ubuntu. Mint has distros derived from either Ubuntu or Debian. Some distros like Ubuntu have flavors, where everything under the hood is kept the same but the desktop is different: for example, Kubuntu is Ubuntu with the KDE Plasma desktop environment, and is maintained by the Kubuntu project.

    When you go to choose a distro, the choices may seem daunting. But once you realize just how many distros are starting with some other distro and making a few small changes, the more you’ll realize that the distinctions between them don’t really matter and distro selection is more a matter of taste. Sure, Ubuntu may have dozens of derivatives, but all those derivatives are basically just Ubuntu with a slightly different look and feel, so the choice really isn’t as big as it seems.






  • At the crux of the author’s lawsuit is the argument that OpenAI is ruthlessly mining their material to create “derivative works” that will “replace the very writings it copied.”

    The authors shoot down OpenAI’s excuse that “substantial similarity is a mandatory feature of all copyright-infringement claims,” calling it “flat wrong.”

    Goodbye Star Wars, Avatar, Tarantino’s entire filmography, every slasher film since 1974…


  • The tools would be integrated into things we already use.

    I’m a doctor, and our EMR is planning to start piloting generative text for replies to patient messages later this year. These would be fairly informal and don’t need to be super medically rigorous, needing just a quick review to make sure the AI doesn’t give dangerous advice.

    However, at some point AI may be used in clinical support, where it may offer suggestions on diagnoses, tests, and/or medications. And here, we would need a much higher standard of evidence and reproducibility of results as relying on a bad medical decision here could lead to serious harm.

    These are already in two different sections of the medical chart (inbox vs. encounter, respectively) and these would likely be two separate tools with two separate contexts. I would not need to memorize two tools to use the software: in my inbox, I’ll have my inbox tools, and in my encounter, I’ll have my encounter tools, without worrying about exactly what AI implementation is being used in the background.