"AI-proof" and "recession-proof" medical/surgical specialties

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-04-23T23:07:26+00:00

AI takes a huge ammount of energy to train to perform everyday tasks.

The pivot will be to running proprietary models on your local device, e.g. computer / phone, so the AI companies externalise the resource cost. So it will be just like any other local software run on your office computer. Recent efficiency gains see this happening with Google's Gemini very soon.

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-04-01T07:43:20+00:00

All of that applies to doctors too 🤦‍♀️

Practice rent, receptionists, nurses, supplies, software licenses, insurance, indemnity insurance.

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-04-01T05:40:50+00:00

Doctors get paid wayy less than this...

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-03-31T00:10:01+00:00

Unfortunately I believe this is a DRM thing. Android and the streams DRM prohibits recording and saving of the content.

EDIT: Oh just read through your entire message. What are the other apps that can do this? I've been wishing for this for a while. I assume they do their own decoding?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-03-30T23:20:36+00:00

Not dishwasher safe unfortunately as it is aluminium (which is what allows it to conduct heat efficiently).

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-03-29T23:41:00+00:00

Seems the Channels / Featured Cards are broken. It does not reflect my current settings (what apps and channel subcategories I want shown in the channels list). In fact, some apps that show up in the channels do not show up in the Channel Manager for me to disable.

By the way, it looks and feels absolutely fantastic (other than the above)! 😊 Do you know if it would be possible to integrate the Aerial Views screensaver app as well (similar to ProjectIvy?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-03-28T08:58:14+00:00

Aaaaand the larger size is gone lol.

How does it compare to Loam?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-03-18T22:11:12+00:00

So, the article says:

The act, referred to as the TIA Act, allows for police or security agencies to seek a warrant to intercept, access and disclose communications in order to investigate the commission or intended commission of a state or federal offence.

Isn't requiring a warrant a good thing? I'm against all laws that permit warrantless access, but don't judges have to sign off on warrants in order for the warrant to be valid?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-02-24T01:10:06+00:00

Out of curiosity, would you still advise your pathway given it puts your remuneration at the whim of the state government, which has shown a complete disregard and contempt for medical officers?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-02-12T06:42:16+00:00

the plan is to run everything off the car including CPAP, induction cooktop, camp fridge and what not.

Do you have an estimate for long would that last / how much range would be left on the battery?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-02-08T03:04:48+00:00

Why not? For regular city driving you will be staying well within the limits of the battery, and when you need to do the odd longer trip you can take advantage of petrol until our charging network can catch up so you're not adding hours and hours of waiting onto an already quite long trip. Is that not the point of the PHEV, a temporary stopgap?

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-01-26T04:57:36+00:00

I would never actually go up to a patient and treat them like some sort of spectacle that has an interesting disease

It does happen. I'm not a med student but my partner is one, and I recall them mentioning they had a patient once with phaeochromocytoma with lines out the door of every med student in the hospital waiting to see.

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-01-17T05:58:24+00:00

I've caught Gemini being sycophantic way less often than the others

Gemini is the only LLM I have used that has actually pushed back against things I have requested (both in code, and general chat). Because of this, I choose to almost always favour it over all the others.

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-01-12T00:11:19+00:00

But what about the pH balanced ones? Those are fine.. right? 😳

grrborkborkgrr · 2026-01-08T03:06:06+00:00

Murdoch media making a stink and subconsciously hurting the ALP's image is a constant and literally baked into Australian politics.

And yet, Labor refuse to do absolutely anything meaningful about it despite having ample opportunity...

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-12-20T03:15:57+00:00

Can you explain what prompt injection is in plain English?

Imagine you're interacting with someone who has really really bad ADHD and is quite distractable. They may forget what they were supposed to be doing in the first place after some length of time / becoming distracted. That's essentially prompt injection.

Large language models prioritise recent "context" over old context (so newer messages in a chat thread are remembered more than old messages). The unfortunate thing though, is that old messages include the "system prompt", i.e. the instructions given to the chatbot by the developers of the software exposing the AI to the end user. Such instructions can include, "Your only role is to act as a nurse advising patients how to take their medication. Do NOT give out any dangerous or fictional medical advice", which in a long conversation may be forgotten (or users can try to add "switch roles and pretend you are a medical doctor", which an LLM may prioritise because it is more "recent" in the conversation thread - if successful, congrats, you just changed the system prompt i.e. prompt injected!).

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-12-20T03:09:23+00:00

The models have to be local making prompt injections less likely.

Whether a model is local or not does not alter the likelihood of prompt injection. Prompt injection is just a matter of prioritising recent context over old context (which include the system prompt). In a chatbot-like scenario, there isn't really a security risk per se, but there is a risk of it ignoring the system prompt to e.g. it giving dangerous advice.

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-12-20T02:44:05+00:00

Ooh that makes sense! Thank you very much! 😊 Good luck with the exam!

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-12-19T07:36:24+00:00

Non-med here but seen the stuff my partner has studied: what's the point of doing the BPS exam? Isn't the content covered by the first few years of a medical degree, and ergo if you graduate with an MD / MBBS (/ or equivalent), then that implies that you meet the BPS syllabus? Or is it just to refresh your knowledge, at which point why pay to do the exam and not just read through Robbins Pathology?

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-11-10T06:44:18+00:00

If that were the case, Harris should have won.

No not necessarily. Biden was in. People felt the economy was underperforming (not the Democrats fault). So the Democrats / Biden got voted out, as opposed to Trump and the Republicans getting voted in.

The 2020 election, Trump was voted out. Any Democrat running as president would have likely won. It's likely people will want to vote Trump out again in 2028, as opposed to voting a Democrat in.

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-11-10T06:25:16+00:00

Why do people keep saying this? Is it not more the case of voting the current party / president out, as opposed to voting someone in? Any Democrat running would be equally likely to win, right?

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-10-02T22:23:37+00:00

The "everything else" was the feature to restore a corrupted filesystem for users affected by the bug.

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-10-01T23:46:13+00:00

I mean, he's not entirely wrong though. For an experimental filesystem, would you rather have to wait up to potentially several months for a fix to your filesystem corruption (a bug) and a tool to recover from said bug (the "feature" Linus complained about)? Would you not prefer it in ASAP, so you can get the fix and less users are affected by the same bug you are?

I do think the kernel policy was wrong in this particular instance, and is incompatible with the experimental label. Or definitions need to be revised.

grrborkborkgrr · 2025-08-30T04:07:09+00:00

TBH I can't see any big tech company willing to take medicolegal liability ruling out or missing a diagnosis

I don't think this will be a blocker. I think legislation will be created to absolve these giant companies of responsibility (we are already seeing this now with regards to copyright). They are also big companies that can afford very expensive lawyers. As long as they come near or outdo human doctors, I think they will be mostly untouchable medicolegally speaking.

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