"This is an important, though uncommonly discussed, issue in the translation of evidence from cancer screening trials.1 It is known that overdiagnosis (treatment of cancers that would have been no threat), and high false positive rates (misdiagnosis) lead to medical harms and unnecessary surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation...
...margin of benefit suggested by the analysis above it seems likely that if there is a benefit to screening mammography it is balanced out by mortal harms from overdiagnosis and false-positives"
Does that mean early cancer treatments don't prolong life?
Positive screening result usually leads to treatment of one kind or another. Without screening, treatment would start later, if at all. Is that a corollary of this study?
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omg, "A filmmaker thinks he can turn Universal Paperclips into a movie (2019)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24405682
I would rent that movie for sure. Sounds like a wonderful sci-fi B movie to watch.
(Btw the convention is to omit links to past threads that have no comments, or only trivial comments. Otherwise people click on the links, find nothing of interest, and come back complain. Not a criticism! just FYI)
No. Unless it's her passion, but I'm not going to encourage her specifically in this direction. I want to invest equally (as much as I can) in other STEM, in art, in sports. Maybe she'll be a playwright? Or an athlete? Or a scientist? Or dedicate her life to help other people or animals?
Even if she is interested in programming, I'd warn her about burnout, about the ultra long feedback cycles, about the exhausting rate of technology progress. Make sure she knows the path ahead. It's weighted, I know, because I can only tell her about this path and not others. On the other hand, there's weight to the other side by seeing me doing that, being able to get advice and direction.
I want her to be happy. Fulfilled if possible. Good work-life balance, preferable on the side of "life" than "work". If I can leave her enough money to choose her profession rather than have to follow the money.
Yeah I’m confused about that as well. Programming has among the shortest feedback cycles of all! Heck, you can get your editor hooked up so that you get near-realtime feedback as you type.
Now imagine being a particle physicist or something and waiting years or even decades just to have a chance to run your experiment!
Absolutely. I think this is why many people basically become addicted to it. You don’t need much discipline in many cases to get things done, you can just ride the dopamine (etc) hits.
For me it's less the dopamine hits and more the assurance. I don't need to invest 3 months testing something, I spend (maybe) 3 weeks. Instead of a full day of setup and testing something small, I can try and check within minutes.
I moved out of a scientist role into software engineering specifically because I hated the long feedback cycles. My research feedback cycle would be 5-10 years.
Even though the title includes a programmer's perspective, I don't think they were saying they want their child to follow in their professional footsteps. I think it was more about wanting their kid(s) to reach their potential, develop wisdom, good character, and always work on self-improvement.
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+breaking+the+internet%22
" Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet "
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+breaking+the+internet%22&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2021%2Ccd_max%3A2022&tbm=
" Why Billie Eilish is breaking the internet ? "
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+breaking+the+internet%22&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2020%2Ccd_max%3A2021&tbm=
" The coronavirus pandemic is breaking the internet "
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+breaking+the+internet%22&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2019%2Ccd_max%3A2020&tbm=
" This Basic Math Problem Is Breaking the Internet "
...
And yet, miraculously, the internet seem to have survived. It has even survived underwater cable cuts, DNS black holes rouge countries and plain stupid BGP by plainly stupid admins, firewalls - great and less-than-great ones, internal networks with more or less surveillance, more or less hostility towards VPNs, TOR and other anonymizing services.
Cloudflare is large, yet it's not "the Internet". Firefox community is also large, yet there are other browsers and tools to browse "the Internet".
I wish "breaking the internet" would stop being thrown around in such a cavalier manner.
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