We’ve built a basic version of this using Notion AI and OCR (https://510k.innolitics.com). Someday we hope to integrate with our more fully featured FDA databases browser (https://fda.innolitics.com).
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> Each sensor also used a ludicrous amount of plastic for its applicator, like a tennis-ball-sized hunk of hard plastic, that you just chucked in the trash, every week.
Erm, let's be a little defensible here.
These sensors have to be stored in sterile packaging--that means thick enough to be a barrier. That means it also has to hold the sensor in such a way that a palette can be gamma irradiated. It also needs to be resistant to drops, crushes, and other accidents.
The sensor has to not be harmful with organisms irrespective of the understanding of the person using it. Any change to that packaging has to be re-evaluated for effects on that sterilization.
And while I understand people having concerns, if the only reason we needed to use plastic was to treat folks with diabetes--I think the world would somehow manage.
I work in the medical device space (mostly software as a medical device). I attended the AAMI Nexus conference two weeks ago and attended a talk about making devices more eco friendly. The tension between safety and sterilization and packaging was definitely brought up. It’s a hard balance to make. One example I thought was interesting was that the NIH did a study to see if it was necessary to swab people’s skin and use gloves before a shot. It turned out it wasn’t and it didn’t make a difference, so they stopped requiring the providers to swab people’s skin or wear gloves, thus saving an immense amount of waste when taken over all vaccine shots.
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I really like diagrams as text for simple diagrams where you don't care too much about the formatting. I think Figma is better if you really care about the formatting. I just discovered this the other day, but you can create mermaid diagrams in Notion by adding a codeblocks and selecting the "mermaid" language from the dropdown.
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No, this is something different. This glyph may be a "B", but not in the same sense that our Latin B is a B, or even in the same sense that Hebrew bayt is a B.
Remember, most Hieroglyphs had two or three consonants, and there was no Ancient Egyptian "alphabet", that is something they made up for tattoo's and tourists. When you wrote something in Egyptian, you didn't just combine a bunch of characters that each had a single consonant sound, that was an innovation of the semites. Then later the Greeks come up with the concept of vowels.
Apart from being shaped vaguely like a house, another clue is in the name. Semitic B's have a name that means house.
Hmm, take a look at minute 3:40 from this video: https://www.coursera.org/lecture/wonders-ancient-egypt/hiero...
I don't know too much about this, so I definitely could be mistaken, but the professor seems to say this hieroglyphic may be connected with our current letter "B". Also, I think he said something about "house" on another video and I believe it was different.
You know, sometimes all you need is “do I have a baseball sized tumor or not”.
That's absolutely true. We work with a lot of technical founders who are turning their research into a diagnostic medical devices. One of the first questions we always ask is: how will the information produced by your device help clinical decision making? More data is _nice_ but if it doesn't alter the course of treatment, it's pointless. Sometimes it's okay if the doctor doesn't know if the problem is A or B if the treatment for A and B is the same.