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cyrillite commented on Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high   worksinprogress.news/p/wh... · Posted by u/bensouthwood
aabajian · 3 months ago
I'm an interventional radiologist with a master's in computer science. People outside radiology don't get why AI hasn't taken over.

Can AI read diagnostic images better than a radiologist? Almost certainly the answer is (or will be) yes.

Will radiologists be replaced? Almost certainly the answer is no.

Why not? Medical risk. Unless the law changes, a radiologist will have to sign off on each imaging report. So say you have an AI that reads images primarily and writes pristine reports. The bottleneck will still be the time it takes for the radiologist to look at the images and validate the automated report. Today, radiologist read very quickly, with a private practice rads averaging maybe 60-100 studies per day (XRs, ultrasounds, MRIs, CTs, nuclear medicine studies, mammograms, etc). This is near the limit of what a human being can reasonably do. Yes, there will be slight gains at not having to dictate anything, but still having to validate everything takes nearly as much time.

Now, I'm sure there's a cavalier radiologist out htere who would just click "sign, sign, sign..." but you know there's a malpractice attorney just waiting for that lawsuit.

cyrillite · 3 months ago
I am actively researching this friction and others like it. I would love it if you happened to have recommendations for literature that 3rd parties can use to corroborate your experience (I’ve found some, but this is harder to uncover than I expected as I’m not in the field)
cyrillite commented on Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]   gwern.net/doc/science/201... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
amelius · 3 months ago
When I read papers I often think: if only the author had the space here to write two sentences instead of one, then perhaps I would immediately understand what they are trying to say.
cyrillite · 3 months ago
Sometimes two sentences is the minimum necessary number of sentences, but everybody should be wary of that instinct
cyrillite commented on Croatia just revised its digital nomad visa to last up to 3 years   cnbc.com/2025/08/15/croat... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
rafaelmn · 4 months ago
As a Croatian citizen working remotely - this would have been a much better deal pre-covid. Ever since we entered the eurozone and the EU funds started pouring in the prices skyrocketed (even compared to the rest of Europe, not just global inflation). Still worth looking into, but not a nobrainer like it was. Quality of life you used to be able to get for the mentioned 3.5k eur/month income was hard to get elsewhere in EU, but nowadays prices rose faster then the rest of Europe and quality of life stayed the same, a lot of other places in EU are competitive.
cyrillite · 4 months ago
This appears to coincide with the rapid rise of my wealthier friends taking extended holidays in Croatia. It wasn’t the cool thing to do, now suddenly it’s a must-see place. I didn’t get the memo about that, apparently. I wonder if it’s having an impact or if it’s just a local phenomena that feels far larger to me
cyrillite commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial   trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail
throwup238 · 5 months ago
> How come we aren't like chimps, with eternally shredded bodies and cheese grater abs, provided we get the protein to support them?

There are several reasons: Chimps have a higher density of testosterone receptors with a higher sensitivity than humans. Compared to humans, they are essentially roided out all the time.

Humans are also hairless endurance hunters so we naturally have much larger fat reserves (15-25% of body weight vs <10% for chimps) in order to retain body heat and have enough energy to hunt prey till they collapse from exhaustion.

cyrillite · 5 months ago
Not to mention that we really are much more similar to chimps than they’re giving us credit for. If we ate a relatively low calorie, high protein diet, and maintained an active lifestyle, we’d all be pretty damn muscular and lean. Not roided out muscular, but far more so than I think the average person expects. Our body composition is significantly determined by relatively near-zero fitness demands in modern life and an overabundance of the wrong kinds of calories
cyrillite commented on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B   marketwatch.com/story/sle... · Posted by u/aorloff
mattlondon · 6 months ago
Maybe that guy who was digging up a landfill to find his old HDD finally found it!

Seriously though, what are the odds that someone has been quietly spending 10s/100s of millions in cloud compute to brute force the keys for old wallets?

cyrillite · 6 months ago
As Bitcoin increases in value, the reward for breaking into wallets grows. Satoshi’s is the ultimate target here, followed by wallets used to burn currencies. Some of these look like they’d only be brute forceable and that takes more time and energy than we think is plausible, but I suspect people will find the system isn’t as secure as expected in some weird and wacky ways as this bounty grows.

Although, I wonder if emptying the wallet is actually harder than breaking in, in some ways. Let’s say you get into Satoshi’s wallet (or they still have access), how do you move anything without spooking the entire market?

cyrillite commented on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages   simedw.com/2025/06/23/int... · Posted by u/simedw
cyrillite · 6 months ago
I have been thinking of a project extremely similar to this for a totally different purpose. It’s lovely to see something like this. Thank you for sharing it, inspiring
cyrillite commented on New proof dramatically compresses space needed for computation   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/baruchel
cyrillite · 6 months ago
One of my favourite sci comms YouTubers explained this in great detail https://youtu.be/8JuWdXrCmWg

Highly recommend

cyrillite commented on IBM's Dmitry Krotov wants to crack the 'physics' of memory   research.ibm.com/blog/dmi... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
OgsyedIE · 6 months ago
I think there is a mixture of useful insights and novice errors here. If you're interested, I can recommend Steven Byrnes' series on valence and self-models as some of the most compelling introductory blog essays about seriously approaching contemporary neuroscience through the lens of physics.
cyrillite · 6 months ago
I would love to read this and other material. Got links?
cyrillite commented on I made a history timeline to learn what events happened around the same time   seanhollen.com/1300-2000/... · Posted by u/Akranazon
preetsojitra · 6 months ago
It would be great to make one for all the innovations and discoveries be its technical, mathematical, etc etc. Also maybe creating some linkage or graph sort of thing for showing the discovery or invention which led or built foundation for another discovery in later years (umm not sure, might be too complex... just an idea)
cyrillite · 6 months ago
I’ve been thinking about building precisely that sort of tech tree for a while, then extending it forwards in time to see if we can guess at how to work backwards from hypothetical technologies to where we are or if we can see obvious gaps
cyrillite commented on Steve Jobs would have fired everyone   twitter.com/greggertruck/... · Posted by u/e-brake
cyrillite · 6 months ago
I really like what they’re going for but I’m disappointed in the outcome (so far). Then again, Apple has always managed to have a glaring oversight in design somewhere — “just hold your phone differently!”

u/cyrillite

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