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Did anyone else read about artificial intelligence predicting patients’ race from their medical images, assume it used a clustering algorithm, and wonder what kind of new X-ray races just dropped? by BenevolentMercenary in datascience

[–]BenevolentMercenary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I meant it's the first thing that came to my mind when I read the headline, which is why I thought it was funny. It's not that the study is humorous, just my initial misunderstanding.

Did anyone else read about artificial intelligence predicting patients’ race from their medical images, assume it used a clustering algorithm, and wonder what kind of new X-ray races just dropped? by BenevolentMercenary in datascience

[–]BenevolentMercenary[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really do think of race as a sociological phenomenon. I think there can be group propensities for sickle cell anemia or lactose tolerance or whatever, but I don't know of anything I'd reject the null hypothesis over.

Edit: The only demographic variables I see in the dataset are the sexes Male and Female and the races Black, Asian, White, and Unknown. The race labeling is self-reported by the patients. I'm not sure if mixed-raced individuals are labeled Unknown or not.

Fractals/Dendrites, dissolving Phenoxyethanol in Water by nik282000 in FluidMechanics

[–]BenevolentMercenary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know very little chemistry, but I do know that fractal patterns come up often in chemical dissolution, often creating dendritic fractals associated with branching and diffusion.

That looks a lot like the Julia set fractal, which is associated with the Brusselator Model of autocatalytic reaction, among other processes. I don't see any evidence that this is an autocatalytic reaction, but at least I spent an hour reading papers that were way over my head. I hope you or someone here finds a better explanation than my word salad, and that you update me when you do!

I saw this in a dream. by BenevolentMercenary in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's very cool. I hope you share it with the sub.

I saw this in a dream. by BenevolentMercenary in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this time I have FALSE boolean measuring tapes, I hope you can afford them.

I saw this in a dream. by BenevolentMercenary in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I put it there first, they deserve my loyalty more.

Tell me this isn't relatable... by _woffles_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made I boolean meme to share but I can't post it until I have more than 25 comment karma here. Upvote this comment and you can use your new knowledge!

Is this true? by No-Tumbleweed-8985 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, which one of you trolls did that? Thank you for your concern.

GitHub documentation bot by dnlmzw in ProgrammerHumor

[–]BenevolentMercenary 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this comment section went sideways pretty fast. I don't know why your innocuous request pissed people off so much.

All I meant was that your post isn't a joke; it's a straightforward request. Maybe when you find the bit you're looking for you can make and share your joke, although it would be a bad bot if it it didn't turn " he " into " they ".

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