Ace Frehley, the Spaceman of Kiss who played with the group from their formation in 1973 until 1983, and then again in the Nineties, has died at 74.
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an all-time high.
@davidgerard , not sure if you saw this great post about ML models in radiology?
The boosters love to say ‘look how good AI is in medical diagnosis, therefore LLMs are good’. Only, it turns out (from the article):
while models beat humans on benchmarks, the standardized tests designed to measure AI performance, they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions. Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data, and models often don’t work as well outside of their test conditions
It also highlights a problem that’s actually quite general in medicine: we have far more data about unhealthy people than healthy ones. I was talking to a cardiologist almost ten years ago who was very excited about the data things like the Apple Watch could collect. Apparently they know that a lot of people who have heart attack have arrhythmia, but they have no idea if this is a meaningful correlation. Healthy people tend to have their heart monitored for a minute or less on a visit to a doctor every few years. People with known heart problems wear heart monitors that can record a load of things, so you have very good data on their heart rhythms but no baseline to compare it against.
This is also true for radiology. You really want to do anomaly detection: take a few million scans of healthy people, wait a few years to see if any of them have undiagnosed conditions, and then use that dataset to train a model of what a healthy lung (or whatever) looks like. Then feed new scans to the model, have it flag anomalies, and loop in an expert to figure out what kind of anomaly it is and whether it’s important.
But what you have is a load of very examples of things that are wrong, in very specific ways. And these also have artefacts that are specific to individual devices, so it’s easy for a model to learn that people who are scanned with this class of machine have this condition.
And that’s just the start of the issues they discuss.
It is hard for us, here in the relative comfort and security of Ireland, to even begin to imagine what is has been – and what it is – like in Gaza, where...
Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza – Hot Press Magazine, Ireland
https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-hear-us-five-voices-from-gaza-23113207
The five voices are those of my partner at Gaza Verified, @joynewacc – who also helped curate and translate the pieces from Arabic – and our Gaza Verified members, @aseelfromgz, @soma23, @Mohammedjhad, and @mohshbair.
A huge thank you to all of you for taking time in the middle of surviving famine and genocide to share your experiences with us and to @gerrymcgovern for commissioning the piece.
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#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #famine #HotPressMagazine #Ireland #article #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
Elizabeth Spiers on what makes blogging work (which I’d argue is still true). “Before social media, if someone wanted to engage with you, they had to come to your house and be civil before you’d give them the time of day or let them in. And if they wanted you to engage with them, they’d have to make their own house compelling enough that you’d want to visit.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-made-blogging-different
A clash with a Christian nationalist shows why defending the Constitution requires confronting bigotry disguised as patriotism
Young Republicans in New York texted the most ghastly comments imaginable. Praises of H*tler, calls to commit genocide, glorification of rape, and more.
Here’s the truth. Most any Black or brown person could have told you that this does not surprise us one bit—because those same send us their racist hate unsolicited. This week a Christian nationalist sent me similar hate. Here's what happened:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/faith-facts-and-the-first-amendment
This weekend's "No Kings" rallies stand as an important corrective amid a dark moment
I want to begin this introduction to our 25th anniversary essay series...
TPM founder Josh Marshall: "Journalism has no network effects or lock in. But what we now call social media absolutely did. And it quickly grew large enough that it simply no longer needed journalism, found it superfluous and powered on to the world we know today. And here we are."
Great post. And this is another part of why I have cut loose X and now Threads — both products are ruled by opaque algorithms that down-value links and journalism. *I* don't need *them*.
Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.
"I learned that the Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once. Like what we are witnessing now in the United States, it unfolded gradually—slow, then fast, then full tilt—driven by flash points that demanded escalation and deepened solidarity."
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/danish-resistance/
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