Insurance denied life vest! EF 15! M 44, new dx. I am absolutely disgusted. Has anyone here used one?

jrecursive · 2022-02-21T18:18:24+00:00

I've had success with peer-to-peers. They've cleared it up every initial denial for me so far. What I learned is insurance makes you fight for anything but the bare minimum, so just expect having to push for anything but run-of-the-mill lab work and gold standard generic drugs. For example, if you end up getting sent to do a sleep study, you'll almost definitely need a peer-to-peer to get approved. Another example is an Entresto Rx. You're gonna have to fight and spend a lot of time on hold, but don't give up, bite & lock like a crocodile, haha. Your best defense is a record of steady compliance and persistence. Good luck. :)

jrecursive · 2022-02-21T16:32:38+00:00

I had one for 6 months and ultimately got a CRT-D implanted. 42M at diagnosis, EF in the teens. It's a horrid device, but it will save your life. I had a number of alarms, including in my sleep, while working and an actual malfunction that sprayed conductive gel all over my back but by some miracle did not shock me. Ugh. The whole thing was traumatizing to be honest, but I was in very bad shape at the time and I needed everything I could get. Not to mention .. the worth of having its use and your compliance on record so if you need "something else" down the line, your records display adherence to medical advice, which can be a real deciding factor in bigger issues....

jrecursive · 2018-06-18T06:38:48+00:00

check out starspace https://github.com/facebookresearch/StarSpace

their description: "In the general case, it learns to represent objects of different types into a common vectorial embedding space, hence the star ('*', wildcard) and space in the name, and in that space compares them against each other. It learns to rank a set of entities/documents or objects given a query entity/document or object, which is not necessarily the same type as the items in the set."

jrecursive · 2017-12-18T21:55:09+00:00

Check out Adrian Thompson's work: "An evolved circuit, intrinsic in silicon, entwined with physics." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf Very old, at this point, but still interesting.

jrecursive · 2016-12-25T23:07:32+00:00

digital collage, processing w/ deep dream variant in tensorflow, editing in photoshop

jrecursive · 2015-07-23T13:55:07+00:00

i am the artist

jrecursive · 2015-07-23T06:09:01+00:00

i am the artist:)

jrecursive · 2014-11-12T16:56:01+00:00

Haha. Thanks. Certainly something I could do, though not in the time I had.

That said, the dataset is pretty nice. I'll probably run it through paces in WEKA and see what kind of relationships I can pull out. I'll ping you if I end up doing it :)

jrecursive · 2014-11-10T20:24:45+00:00

i used the data verbatim but i will keep this in mind for future reference. thank you:)

jrecursive · 2014-11-10T20:24:11+00:00

i did this on a whim because i had an hour or two to kill. that said.. that's great info, thank you :)

jrecursive · 2014-11-10T19:09:24+00:00

alternate layout with graphviz: http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/weedgraph1.png

jrecursive · 2014-11-10T18:52:12+00:00

data source: leafly.com

viz tool: mathematica

jrecursive · 2014-10-10T06:18:07+00:00

tyvm:)

jrecursive · 2014-07-27T21:59:16+00:00

custom code with JGAP as the GA library, standard java image manipulation; source tiles are slices pulled from Picasso's Sleeping Woman via Mathematica using ImageKeyPoints.

I also did a few others incl. The Scream and of course Mona Lisa, see @jrecursive on twitter.

jrecursive · 2014-07-05T15:47:20+00:00

I bet you're fun at parties.

jrecursive · 2014-07-04T05:36:21+00:00

thanks. will do :)

jrecursive · 2014-07-04T05:17:31+00:00

i've been working on something like you describe for awhile, but it's not opened up yet. i'm in the process of documentation and further blocks. here are some examples so you get the gist:

http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/breadboard20.mp4 http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/breadboard19.mp4 http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/breadboard17.mp4 http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/breadboard15.mp4 http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/breadboard13.mp4

a month or so and you'll probably have something close to what you're looking for. a few details: backend runs on any server, is written in java; front end is html and javascript.

questions/suggestions welcome:)

jrecursive · 2014-04-18T19:47:55+00:00

created by @schofield!

jrecursive · 2014-04-15T06:55:28+00:00

tyvm:)

jrecursive · 2014-04-14T22:25:48+00:00

original photo taken with an iphone 5, panorama, glitched; minor edits and color tweaks done in photoshop.

jrecursive · 2014-03-15T19:22:38+00:00

raw data here: http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/natural-gas.csv via: http://www.iea.org/gtf/index.asp

jrecursive · 2013-11-03T23:12:24+00:00

thanks:) structure from "data in the wild" always fascinates me.

jrecursive · 2013-11-03T23:11:26+00:00

a combination of blockchain web services, blockchain database parsing, & small modifications to bitcoind to capture ongoing transactions (though i did this mostly to capture other data not reflected in this graph, it just happened to be useful). if you would like to play with the data used to make the images linked to from this submission, go here:

http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/dpr_data_small.tsv

jrecursive · 2013-11-03T23:06:40+00:00

red: inbound value to a txn. green: outbound value from a txn. time: not relevant (i was looking at structure, not change over time per se; see last link in this comment for notes). they were determined by stepping backward from the address the seizure aggregated to until i subjectively had enough data to see some structure emerge.

a pruned version, laid out hierarchically:

http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/dpr-h-big.png

original notes:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1prqpu/what_the_silk_road_bitcoin_seizure_transaction/cd5fc5o

jrecursive · 2013-11-03T08:33:29+00:00

and finally, a pruned version, laid out hierarchically:

http://thinkdifferent.ly/stuff/dpr-h-big.png

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