I work in the non-LLM biomed space, and there’s a lot of cool stuff happening! Off the top of my head:

• Vision assistance for pathology: Lots of time is spent by trained professionals scrolling a microscope lens over a slide looking for a needle in a haystack. Having tools that can act as a second set of eyes to flag needles a human might miss is a gamechanger.
• Segmentation for neurosurgery, radiology, RadOnc: Lots of time is spent measuring the size and shape of organs on CTs and MRIs, to track changes, to plan where to cut during surgery, and to map out tumor targets for radiation therapy. We now have tools that work kinda like the magic wand in photoshop, where you wave your mouse around the margins of an anatomical structure on a 2D image slice and the computer can map out the full shape in 3D.
• Automated bone age scans: these studies are commonly carried out to assess for developmental + endocrine abnormalities, and in some legal cases involving identity disputes. There’s solid commercial work towards fully automating these studies in a reliable manner.

Short answer: No, this is not an issue. The FDA’s medical device regulations are not conducive to targeted advertising/data sharing/moving fast and breaking things. Data collected would be de-facto PHI, so it’s more liability than utility.

Meta want you to record things with the glasses to upload to Facebook. People who make DME firmware do not.

Google’s Golang team DDOS’d a bunch of people’s servers and then blamed them for it a few years back. YMMV in practice, but I think the behavior is pretty indicative of their SOP and how they treat users of their language tooling.

Worth reading the issue tracker to see how callous the Googlers were about the whole thing (e.g. they banned the person who raised the issue).

https://www.theregister.com/software/2023/02/02/sourcehut-nixes-plan-to-ban-grabby-go-module-proxy/1235899

Someone posted this on here a few months back and it still sends me every time

These are almost cheating, but I’ll go with Gravity’s Rainbow followed by Blood Meridian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

I made it through the pandemic with nothing but a 16 and 24 kg kettlebell, and highly recommend them as the best bang-for-buck option.

Totally understandable if you’re puzzled on where to start with them, but fortunately, they were popularized in the US by a single person (Pavel Tsatsouline) who’s made a full career out of beginner-friendly instructionals. I recommend this as a starting point, but Enter the Kettlebell is also a great option:

https://www.amazon.com/Kettlebell-Simple-Sinister-Revised-Updated/dp/0989892433

Total cost: $100-150, and 3-4 sqft of storage space :).

Bold to release an outright admission of aiding and abetting terrorism due to neglectfully deficient controls.

Or at least it would be in a world with corporate consequences.

Where is the disenfranchised youth grinding out their anger on an electric guitar in an abandoned industrial building?

Might be a bit of a hot take: the spirit is alive but the common form drifted away from this old-school ideal.

Punk as a genre has stopped being a self-contained monolith, and started blending into other styles. There’s still a pool of traditionalists, but they’re a relative minority.

In the 90s, it bleed into hard rock (Nirvana). In the aughts, the main fork was emo-punk (a la Conor Oberst). The 2010s had a big post-punk wave (Parquet Courts, Viagra Boys). Meanwhile, on a longer timeline, industrial EDM/noise music has been the modern incarnation of the spirit of the hardcore subgenre (Death Grips), and folk-punk has been a consistent niche of its own.

And even on top of these more specific splinters, the standard indie rock genre has grown to encompass more “soft-punk” elements in recent decades (Modest Mouse, Wolf Parade).

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