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Comment Re: Radiologists aren't going away (Score 1) 97

by pennywyz on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @10:46AM (#58629848) Attached to: Google's Lung Cancer Detection AI Outperforms 6 Human Radiologists

I have been told since before medical school that AI would kill radiology, yet here we are 13+ years later and its nowhere close. In fact, it is a struggle for us to hire new radiologists because the demand is high right now. Of course that doesn't mean it will never happen, but more than likely I will be retired before the need for radiologists is significantly impacted. We have been using AI in certain parts of radiology for a while (breast and lung cancer screening being the biggest examples). I welcome it as do most radiologists because it will presumably help with the tedium and with incidental stuff that radiologists are most prone to missing. For example, I specialized in neuroradiology. If I look through a CT of someone's thoracic spine I also see their lungs. It is such a pain in the ass to look for pulmonary nodules, and then if I find one a decision has to be made about what to do with it including the possibility of more imaging, pulmonology/thoracic surgery consult, biopsy etc. I would be so happy if AI was at the point it could screen for all of that stuff reliably.

Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information (bgr.com) 109

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 07, 2015 @02:54PM from the looking-behind-the-curtain dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this story about how the Apple vs. Samsung battle brought to light the inner workings of Apple product development. BGR reports: "Following a contentious patent battle that raged on for nearly five years, Samsung last week finally agreed to pay Apple $548 million in damages for infringing upon a number of iPhone and iPad patents. While Samsung may still be holding out hope that it may someday recover those millions, it seems that we can finally start closing the book on the most widely publicized patent dispute in recent memory, one which saw Apple and Samsung battle it out in courtrooms across all corners of the globe.

One of the more interesting aspects of Apple's legal battle with Samsung is that it gave us an unprecedented look behind the veil of secrecy that typically shrouds all aspects of Apple's product development and day-to-day operations. Over the course of discovery, innumerable court filings, and a fascinating trial, the inner workings of Apple were brought to the forefront for the fist time in history. From photographs of iPhone prototypes to how Apple conducts market research, Apple's legal battles with Samsung provided tech enthusiasts with a treasure trove of previously top-secret information.

With Samsung now agreeing to pony up for damages, we thought it'd be a good time to take a step back, reminisce, and take a look at some of the more interesting nuggets of information the hard-fought patent dispute brought to light."

Comment Re:How much of "college" is really necessary? (Score 1) 230

by pennywyz on Monday November 30, 2015 @09:36PM (#51031015) Attached to: Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans

1) College is absolutely not necessary, as many successful people have proven.
2) Community college will be perfectly sufficient for most people who want college level education. I work with many other physicians from prestigious (i.e. expensive) and not prestigious institutions and guess what...we all ended up at the same place with the same general knowledge.
3) My undergraduate education was at BYU, very reasonably priced due to subsidy from the LDS church. We don't need taxation or other involuntary government intervention to provide a quality college level education for our citizens at a reasonable price.
4) Can we stop acting like the big bad banks are holding a gun to the heads of college freshmen? Every student loan I took out (and it's been many) was voluntary and I proceeded very carefully knowing that it would profoundly affect me for most of my working life. Welcome to being an adult.
5) We absolutely could cut down on the length of training for physicians and many other careers by cutting out the crap. As a side note, I think organic chemistry is a very valuable building block for a physician's education, although we are not using it in every day practice.

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