The average difference between chemo and no chemo at all is similarly underwhelming. Read just about any "when doctors die" piece, and it's clear that they rarely eat their own cooking, and with good reason. Given the choice between "death sentence" and "death sentence, with extra pain and suffering, and a fat bill for the family at the end", I think it's an easy choice.
My dad's cancer spread to the lungs so radiation was off, and his kind didn't respond well to any chemo at the time. He then got pneumonia and the docs told us he'd likely have many months left once the pneumonia was treated, but he would most likely have to stay at the hospital until the end.
He decided to ask them to stop the oxygen supply, and passed away peacefully the following day. It hit hard since it came earlier than expected, but I'm very grateful he was allowed to make that choice. I hope I get to make my own choice if the time comes.
There may be some combination of cancer and treatment where progress has been made, but the aggregates are unimpressive, and if oncology were operating in the light, we'd have more numbers and classifications, and fewer glossy brochures filled with vague bulleted lists. I'd have odds instead of marketing adjectives.
dang, maybe we can change the url to this instead? this url has been stable for at least 14 years (http://web.archive.org/web/20070720035132/https://lists.inf....) and has a good chance of remaining stable for another 14, while the twitter url is likely to disappear this year or show different results to different people
Since Twitter is suppressing the visibility of tweets that link outside their site I think it would be perfectly fair to block links to twitter, rewrite them to nitter, etc. There also ought to be gentle pressure on people who post to Twitter to move to some other site. I mean, even I've got a Bluesky invite now.
Well I didn't mean to just endorse Bluesky but call it out as one of many alternatives.
I'm actually active on Mastodon but I am thinking about getting on Instagram as well because the content I post that does the best on Mastodon would fit in there.
I think his answer is driven by a preference for the status quo and a reluctance to face difficult changes.
ChatGPT, and especially GPT-4, seem to do much more than just play games with words. You can’t overlook the “emergent” phenomena that manifest themselves when using them.
If we look at when this "emergence" takes place you'll see it's an illusion. Namely, predictions (text output) are good-looking when sampling from data which are similar to the prompts; and they're bad-looking when not.
So, when do models go from being "not intelligent" to "intelligent", well no surprise: when their data includes everything ever written. Is this emergence? No, it's just sampling from *data with the relevant properties*.
How does data acquire those properties? Well when people produce it.
What "emerges" from AI is not from AI; its from the properties of the data its using. The data here is produced by intelligent agents, and it is light of their intelligence which shines thru' GPTs like a prism.
I struggle with this take as it’s not different from humans.
Am I intelligent at age 3? Then I learn language. Am I intelligent? Then I progress through education. I become more and more intelligent as I am exposed to more data.
I don’t know about computer science, so I go expose myself to computer science literature. I take courses, and see examples. What emerges is a “more intelligent” version of myself that.
But doesn’t it imply that once we have something that can “see” its environment, hear nearby sounds, and have some sort of haptic sense — wouldn’t that be AI, then? Given your definition?
If, of course, such a thing used all that input to “create” concepts like its physical place within an environment, what may or may not come next given the interplay of those inputs, and how to navigate the environment based on all that.
But then I’d say, “GPT-4 can handle image data. And what might come in the future with more modalities?”
They are sometimes bad looking, and they are always better than randomness, which does indicate understanding even if the conclusions are faulty.
>What "emerges" from AI is not from AI; its from the properties of the data its using
This is squabbling over semantics. If the properties of the data are used to the effect of displaying intelligence, then the fact is that what you are looking at is intelligence.
If I define a word I have never seen before using deductive logic according to the passage I find it in, I've still acquired an understanding of the word, even though I've not referred to anything external.
Well, since it's the investment branch of the bank that's publishing, it would be strange if J.P. Morgan weren't writing about it. Additionally, I think it's definitely worth a read, as it provides detailed information in a cautious style.
I tried to use new.reddit because it is the only thing working, why is it that when I'm reading comments that 50% of my 1440p screen is just black background on the left & right? You can kind of fix the front page by putting it into "Compact" view, but the comment section has nothing akin to that.
This is such a usability disaster relative to old.reddit, and it hasn't been fixed for years. Who is this for? I still remember when Reddit had one of the best mobile websites, before they had an official app and then mysteriously the mobile site started to lose previously working functionality.
At a strategic level, surely the website is bad in order to drive people to the mobile apps. Simple enough.
But I wonder how this result was actually accomplished - are there Reddit developers deliberately adding JS bloat so scrolling is choppy? Are there KPIs that pages must not load in under N seconds or videos must not play successfully more than N% of the time? It's bad enough that it can't be an accident. I'd love to interview one of the devs of the new UI.
I'm fairly sure this is some "design paradigm" or something. I've complained about it for years but I've never heard it described by anyone as an "issue" that's going to be fixed, as much as "a design some old people don't like".
I didn't even think of using new.reddit.com when old had trouble! I used the API and that worked fine. I'll have to keep the new.reddit.com trick handy in case it is needed sometime.
I just use some home cooked python scripts on desktop, but I think there is a gnus.el client somewhere too. On my phone, Red Reader is great. It's on F-droid.org.
I’m giving up Reddit for lent, and would be somewhat pleasantly surprised if they did this while I’m gone. It would make just never, ever using it again much easier.
