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  • RIP Peter Yarrow

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    George KG
    He was pardoned by Jimmy Carter... Lurid details at the link.
  • 18 Weeks

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    JollyJ
    We were a small government hospital with huge outpatient clinics, if you consider a 183 bed hospital seeing 100,000 outpatient events/ year as huge clinics. There definitely is an art to moving those numbers with smaller numbers of staff. You have to have ancillary services firepower. Fast throughput and as much automation as the budget will support. For example, our pharmacy filled an average of 700 ninety-day scrips per day. You don't do that without three pharmacists, a robot and a half-dozen pharm techs. You have to have good clinic triage at the ED or Urgent Care point to line this stuff up. And Resource Scheduling worked wonders. The biggest problem clinic was Internal Medicine, but those patients tended to be older and sicker. We could only do an average of 28 patients/day for docs in that clinic, a bit less for the NP's. The docs might could have handled a few more, but if you're a NP with a question or bad patient and the Doc is 20 feet down the hall...
  • ChatGPT

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    CopperC
    And then connect that data to your quantum computer to predict what they do next. And then arrest murderers before they murder. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/minority_report
  • The Bengals in a nutshell

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    JollyJ
    You know who I would look at? Dennis Allen. Allen doesn't have what it takes to be a head coach. He's failed twice. But as a defensive coordinator, he's had multiple top ten defenses and is very good at recognizing and developing secondary talent. Give Burrow and top ten defense and see what happens...
  • Kewl military video of the day

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    jon-nycJ
    Wow. My Dad worked on those in the 50s and 60s. Not the airframe, but the electronics.
  • Meanwhile, in New York...

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    JollyJ
    The article makes a decent point, when you get past the clickbait headline. Just a bit of moderation on the Dems part in New York assures ballot box success. Adequate policing, prosecution of criminals, less illegals sucking services, less DEI. One can still be a progressive and be in favor of those issues.
  • Magisterium, the Catholic Church AI

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    89th8
    @jon-nyc said in Magisterium, the Catholic Church AI: Next question : ‘Ok, but I’m going to do it anyway. Will I go to hell?’ It seems the dummy robot doesn't understand yes or no. [image: 1736270220091-0ac7c3b1-3e16-4a33-b234-21973573bde7-image.png] To which I replied: [image: 1736270403925-d820575a-72ab-40e4-9945-82ca6c4a602f-image.png] Asking the real questions. It's a simple question. [image: 1736270485477-75204958-3730-4723-985c-e4e43fcdcbfc-image.png]
  • Rumo(u)r: Castreaux to Resign?

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    George KG
    [image: 1736268833243-screenshot-2025-01-07-at-10.52.50-am.png]
  • Hitchens warned us

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    jon-nycJ
    But he hated Kissinger even more.
  • Hey George, reverse sear question…

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    George KG
    @Renauda said in Hey George, reverse sear question…: I find leaving frozen steaks and chops on a cold cast iron skillet That's the idea behind those "thawing trays."
  • Something AI should be able to do but for some reason can't

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    Aqua LetiferA
    @jon-nyc said in Something AI should be able to do but for some reason can't: Right but the newer version do search the web in real time. @jon-nyc said in Something AI should be able to do but for some reason can't: Right but the newer version do search the web in real time. Yes but I'd refer you to my comment about form page copy and how that is interpreted as text versus something that is straight exposition. It's much harder for models to make predictions based on form copy because it's so unlike its training data and leaves a lot of context out. For example, those pages don't say "We have 3 suites available for 12/31 for one night." Just look at the copy on those pages and only the copy. It's a lot harder to generate predictive text based on something so sparse. It'll get there most likely, just not there yet.
  • The Ukranian Mirage

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  • 46 BC, the year with 445 days.

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    taiwan_girlT
    Not the month and day, but quite common for the year in Thailand to correspond to Buddhist calendar, which this year is B.E. 2568, equal to 2025. Still seen in Taiwan, especially in government is the use of the year corresponding to the beginning of the Republic of China in year 1912, so it is year 87 this year. BIrthdays still mostly follow the lunar calendar. When I was little, I did not know my "western" calendar birthday.
  • The show must go on

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    taiwan_girlT
    I couldnt understand them. LOL
  • Who is Adrian Dittmann?

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    taiwan_girlT
    Elon Musk is not a free speech "poster guy". LOL HIs actions speak louder than words (see his actions in China)
  • The Kate

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    JollyJ
    Yep, they can pick.
  • Pandemic in China - nothing to worry about here

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    jon-nycJ
    @LuFins-Dad said in Pandemic in China - nothing to worry about here: Did this one come from somebody fucking a Pangolin? Worse. He fucked a mandoline. The ER dude will have an X-ray explainer tomorrow. [image: 1736215544219-img_2294.jpeg]
  • No such fish

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    MikM
  • For Aqua

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    JollyJ
    That's great.
  • Congrats

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    JollyJ
    Payton won with Winston. He went 5-0 with Bridgewater. People said his offense was antiquated and no longer effective. I think Nix has proven different. No matter where he's coached, he has common, winning traits... He has a good offensive line. It helps that he likes the ball to come out quick, so guys don't have to hold blocks. He has a certain player type he values. He wants a high RAS, versatility and good locker room guys. He will coach to what he has. With Brees, the Saints won a lot of high scoring games. With Bridgewater or Nix, he used simpler gameplans and depended on good defense, for low scoring wins. He's a big mismatch guy, always looking for an angle.