Ask him to do a hemoccult (done in the office - doc sticks his finger up your a** and dabs it on a test material) or request a cologuard test (shit in a box at home and mail it to the lab! - loads of laughs driving cautiously to FEDEX!)
The hemoccult (FIT or FOBT) tests are <$100 and the cologuard ~$700. Your insurance will likely cover (esp. the hemoccult test) all the more if you tell doctor of your family background. Hemoccult tests were part of my routine annual physical for decades and there are no familial tendencies.
There are some caveats: e.g., avoid bloody foods in the days preceding these test (Chinese pigs' blood cubes, yummm!)
You shouldn't have to do this, but have you tried calling the colonoscopy practice and asking for a cash price? It might not be as expensive as you think.
But how many of them have hot data centers to offer? Google is a direct competitor, so Oracle or Amazon are kinda the only other two big options to offer them what MS is right now.
If MS drops OpenAI, it's not like they can just seamlessly pivot to running their own data centers with no downtime, even with pretty high investment.
A relationship that’s mutually beneficial needn’t be symmetric. Microsoft’s relationship is fairly commoditized - money and GPUs. OpenAI controls the IP that matters.
I’d note that the supplier of GPUs is Nvidia, who also offers cloud GPU services and doesn’t have a stake in the GCP, Azure, AWS behemoth battle. I’d actually see that as a more natural less middle man relationship.
The real value azure brings is enterprise compliance chops. However IMO aws bedrock seems to be a more successful enterprise integration point. But they’re all commodity products and don’t provide the value OpenAI provides to the relationships.
There needs to be a large pool of government-backed capital specifically for commercial to residential redevelopment and fast-track zoning approvals for this (somewhere along the line of City of Yes proposal in NYC).
Make it 4-5%, contingent upon (or give additional subsidies for) making significant percentage affordable rentals. Use the cash to cut the centers out of the building to daylight the large floor plates.
Residential rents for much more/ft than commercial so shouldn’t be a problem floating existing commercial mortgages. Maybe there’s even a program to borrow against the future higher stream of income to get non-performing loans current so these banks hold the existing paper instead of taking the write down.
> The Gini coefficient is normally used to measure how the light in an image of a galaxy is distributed among its pixels. This measurement is made by ordering the pixels that make up the image of a galaxy in ascending order by flux and then comparing the result to what would be expected from a perfectly even flux distribution.
Interesting, I’d only heard of the Gini coefficient as an econometric measure of income inequality.
Also found it interesting, but for it's technical merits, as I recently had to glue some code together to analyze/compare droplet size from still frames of a high speed video of a pressurized nozzle spraying a flammable fluid. (into a fire! neat! fire! FIRE!)
This approach might have been useful to try. I ended up finding a way to use ImageJ, an open source tool published by the NIH that biologists use to automatically count bacterial colony-forming units growing on petri dishes, but it was very slow and hacky. It was not perfect, but it gave an objective way to quantify information from a large body of existing test data with zero budget. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageJ
Joseph Cox is probably the most important journalist alive breaking stories about the darker sides of technology and its societal impact. He earned a voice here many times over.
Likely shareholder equity would be wiped out and they’d reorganize. Isn’t the whole deal that investors get the upsides for taking the risks on the down?
> Contrary to common disinformation about electric vehicles, data from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) has shown that EVs are 20 times less likely to catch fire than petrol and diesel cars
It’s strange how FUD related to this has spread considering how many lithium ion batteries each individual has around them right now, and has had for decades.
Not one-to-one (node vs layer metaphor) but Fusion is stupid powerful and free within Davinci Resolve.
It’s an incredible piece of software that, in addition to being best in class color correction, has fully replaced Adobe in my professional video workflow (Premiere, AE, AME, etc)
I discovered this when looking at video effects options within envato elements. There are now over 6,000 templates there, that many moons ago I assumed were only really feasible with after effects.
I also see they have some for apple motion and final cut - but I don't do mac so they stay off my radar.
More using davinci and demanding effects that work with it, the better!
Very interesting, concept. I have a friend with seeming no hearing issues that has to cup his ears when in louder environments such as bars, restaurants, etc. I’m wondering if anyone here has a solution to that.
Went into my PCP at 40 asking for a colonoscopy, he said insurance wouldn’t cover it until I was 50.
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