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ozborn commented on Wish you could escape the planet? Too bad life in space would suck (2024) salon.com/2024/11/22/wish... · Posted by u/voxleone

jameskilton · 7 months ago

So here's the actual problem: People. People want to escape Earth because of people. But escaping Earth is impossible alone, so you have to escape with other people ... which means you're bringing along with you every single problem you are trying to escape from.

We'll never escape each other, we can only learn to live with each other, wherever we are.

Incidentally, The Expanse is a fantastic sci-fi book series and tv series that covers this beautifully.

ozborn · 7 months ago

Agree, but with the caveat that space does allow the possibility of escape from broken political and economic systems. That escape may be temporary, but it is real. Also, add me as another vote for the Expanse, both the books and TV series.

ozborn commented on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona reuters.com/technology/ts... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord

suraci · a year ago

I like thought experiment.

let's think

1. CCP took over California by force 2. CCP killed everyone who resists 3. CCP leaved, but built a puppet regime 4. The puppet regime rewrite schoolbook, taught everyone they're not American 5. 100 years later, a poll found that 68% of the respondents identify themselves as Californians

I must admit this is a bad thought experiment because Americans lives in a stolen land, it's not same as Taiwan

ozborn · a year ago

Taiwan has an aboriginal population as well, there are very few countries where the original settlers are recognizable as the current population without squinting. China is one of the worst offenders, with the westward expansion of the Qing Empire contemporary with American westward expansion. Moreover, when America started serious decolonizing in the 20th Century (Philippines) and ending residential schools, China invaded Tibet and continues to pursue aggressive assimilation in its Western regions.

ozborn commented on LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records arxiv.org/abs/2410.12860... · Posted by u/troyastorino

troyastorino · a year ago

(Co-founder of PicnicHealth here; we trained LLMD)

Accuracy and deploying in appropriate use cases is key for real world use. Building guardrails, validation, continuous auditing, etc is a larger amount of work than model training.

We don't deploy in EHRs or sell to physicians or health systems. That is a very challenging environment, and I agree that it would be very difficult to appropriately deploy LLMs that way today. I know Epic is working on it, and they say it's live in some places, but I don't know if that's true.

Our main production use case for LLMD at PicnicHealth is to improve and replace human clinical abstraction internally. We've done extensive testing (only alluded to in the paper) comparing and calibrating LLMD performance vs trained human annotator performance, and for many structuring tasks LLMD outperforms human annotators. For our production abstraction tasks where LLMD does not outperform humans (or where regulations require human review), we use LLMD to improve the workflow of our human annotators. It is much easier to make sure that clinical abstractors, who are our employees doing well-defined tasks, understand the limitations in LLM performance than it would be to ensure that users in a hospital setting would.

ozborn · a year ago

Haven't read the whole paper yet, but what are the possibilities for academic and evaluation use of this model?

ozborn commented on MGM says FTC can't probe ransomware attack as Lina Khan was a guest at the time theregister.com/2024/04/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB

iJohnDoe · 2 years ago

Any recommended write ups that do a deep dive into the whole incident and current status?

ozborn · 2 years ago

Matt Stoller covers this pretty well, it's become a more common tactic now for corporations to go after prosecutors and enforcers personally. Lina Khan is (unfairly in my mind) despised by monopolists for her role in tackling the pro-inflationary, collussion friendly environment that persisted for decades until the last few years.

ozborn commented on DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D as 'evidence' of lack of competition 9to5mac.com/2024/03/27/aa... · Posted by u/ksec

mypastself · 2 years ago

If the company (and the industry) is maturing, then buybacks and dividends are indeed a sign of confidence.

ozborn · 2 years ago

Dividends are taxed directly and generally aren't tied to CEO compensation, unlike buybacks. Buybacks are more a sign of management incentive structure.

ozborn commented on Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore, Stratcom Chief Says military.com/daily-news/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy

ozborn · 2 years ago

I'm surprised SpaceX hasn't put together a proposal for ground-based ICBMs using a Falcon variant, seems right up their alley... I'm guessing the government doesn't want to be any more beholden to Elon and/or it's technically harder to convert than I realize?

ozborn commented on Everything will be alright in Iceland memoirsandrambles.substac... · Posted by u/yakkomajuri

philwelch · 2 years ago

In the aftermath of the fall of South Vietnam, somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000 refugees died at sea trying to flee the country. Cambodia also fell to communism, where the new regime murdered between 1.5 million and 2 million of its people. Actually winning the Vietnam War could have prevented these outcomes and left Southeast Asia in a much more stable and prosperous position today, similar to South Korea.

ozborn · 2 years ago

It was communist controlled Vietnam which got rid of the Khmer Rouge about 45 years ago ending the genocide in Cambodia, it's entirely unclear what your hypothetical "winning" South Vietnamese government would have done. The US government was still mad enough with Vietnam that it applied more sanctions on Vietnam after Vietnam invaded Cambodia and the other major player (China) supported the Khmer Rouge and invaded Vietnam in retaliation.

ozborn commented on Tinnitus linked to undetected auditory nerve damage scitechdaily.com/tinnitus... · Posted by u/beefman

doodlebugging · 2 years ago

I've been considering this more often lately. I was hoping for an inexpensive option since hearing aids are just earbuds with a custom tune.

ozborn · 2 years ago

Hearing aids are much better than most earbuds, especially with regard to power consumption. I have tinnitus, mild hearing loss, but wear cheapish Costco hearing aids as earbud replacement and the hope my tinnitus won't progress.

ozborn commented on No one wants to have kids anymore torturechambersmalltalk.s... · Posted by u/loudtdarrow

bparsons · 3 years ago

The unspoken subtext of these hysterical articles is that they are only speaking about wealthy white people. The rest of the planet does not exist to them.

ozborn · 3 years ago

No, that's you reading into the article. Go look at recent global demographics data, it's not restricted to "wealthy white people", it's been an issue in East Asia for decades and countries from in Latin America, to Iran, even India all are dealing with or are now fast approaching the issue.

ozborn commented on Made in America is back, leaving US factories scrambling to find workers cnn.com/2022/10/09/econom... · Posted by u/redbell

kmeisthax · 3 years ago

Atlas - or, in this case, Xi Jinping - shrugged[0].

Chinese manufacturing went through three phases:

- We can save money by moving our jobs overseas. Sure, it'll blow up our lead times and we'd have to ship goods across the Pacific thrice, but China has 3x the population of the US and the Yuan depreciation makes paying them very cheap.

- We can't move our jobs back to the US! We're all tooled up in China, and everyone else followed us there. If we moved back to the US it'd blow up our lead times and we'd have to ship goods across the Pacific thrice. Plus, we literally can't hire enough people in the US, because China is buying our product just as much as they make it now.

- We are moving production back to the US because our Chinese factory has been shut down for three months due to COVID and it ate through our buffer for shipping delays at the ports. Again. Yes, we will be paying far more for fewer workers, but getting goods across the Pacific is getting more and more expensive anyway and we're losing on money from not having goods to sell every other week.

We are at the third step.

[0] Yes I am aware of the irony of using the title of a right-libertarian political diatribe to describe the actions of a left-authoritarian dictator.

ozborn · 3 years ago

3rd step also includes political instability in China, an even riskier business environment, demographic headwinds along with rising wages and increased fixed automation costs everywhere. Globalization, once "inevitable", has been dead since 2019 and isn't coming back in the foreseeable future.