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• Comment on I’ve Stopped Taking Things Personally, and It Annoys People Trying to Bait Me Into Arguments or Fights by Karol Minnick May 3, 2023 17:35
  Excellent how we learn!
• Comment on The AI Revolution Is Here, and I’m All in… Maybe by René F. Najera, DrPH April 28, 2023 17:49
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2023/04/26/the-ai-revolution-is-here-and-im-all-in-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-6718">Wzrd1</a&gt;. That's an interesting take on it. As I grow older, I keep wondering how many of my first memories are true, or just memories of memories. For example, I remember being two years old and having my grandmother go through the alphabet on fridge magnets with me. It's how I learned to read at an early age. But is it how I remember, or is that the construct of memories of memories and stories I've heard?
• Comment on The AI Revolution Is Here, and I’m All in… Maybe by Wzrd1 April 27, 2023 02:50
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2023/04/26/the-ai-revolution-is-here-and-im-all-in-maybe/comment-page-1/#comment-6717">Wzrd1</a&gt;. Huh, a discussion on youtube on AI chatbots yielded this response from someone, which literally just arrived in my inbox: "Just ask for sources before you make a decision. The AI sometimes uses bad sources for it's answer so just make sure it doesn't hallucinate the answer. " I suggested that hallucinate is a poor choice of word, confabulate being more accurate and reflecting confabulation seen in people with brain dysfunction from injury or disease. As near as I can tell, in human brains, it occurs when the neural networks in the brain signal that a memory was found, but when retrieval occurs, nothing is returned due to dysfunction, so a memory is confabulated from related(ish) memories, transparent to the patient.
• Comment on The AI Revolution Is Here, and I’m All in… Maybe by Wzrd1 April 27, 2023 01:29
  Color me dubious, as many samples I've reviewed that were technical in nature tended to be either wildly off, missing critical current research information, gave popular results that weren't evidence based and overall, needed as much work as if one accepted a grade school student's work, then dressed it up, necessitating a complete re-write. In one instance, results were not only not right, but not even wrong. The rest, missing critical information that was far more up to date and initially, when the AI was queried repeatedly, initially denied further information existed, then finally it admitted the updated information and finally qualified the incorrect response with that information. It was an essay by dentistry. So, Crayola is going to have to introduce a new color just for me - dubious. As currently, AI really stands for Artificial Idiocy. Maybe it'll be ready in time to greet fusion power...
• Comment on Pups At The Park by Tessa Dudley January 28, 2023 11:51
  Nice post thanks for shaaring
• Comment on Another Circle Is Now Complete by René F. Najera, DrPH October 22, 2022 23:53
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2022/10/14/another-circle-is-now-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6702">wzrd1</a&gt;. Ha!
• Comment on Another Circle Is Now Complete by wzrd1 October 22, 2022 23:43
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2022/10/14/another-circle-is-now-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6701">René F. Najera, DrPH</a>. I tried, but it started raining.
• Comment on Another Circle Is Now Complete by René F. Najera, DrPH October 22, 2022 22:33
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2022/10/14/another-circle-is-now-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6700">wzrd1</a&gt;. Don't you know someone in the government who can upload you to the cloud?
• Comment on Another Circle Is Now Complete by wzrd1 October 20, 2022 00:22
  Still recovering, both from my wife dying in March and COVID (mitral valve damage, despite being fully vaccinated and boosted). Just got an emergency surgical referral today for my AAA. Entertainingly, doctor left voice-mail without identifying himself or the urgency of the referral and I was unable to get through to the office. Thankfully, the online chart software displayed an alert on login that a shiny new referral was added. No specialist practice named... Patient, become a detective! 😉 Yeah, I'm going to embarrass the resident on the next visit. Can't wait until he notices the new moderate mitral valve reflux... Maybe it's time to get on the list for a full body transplant.
• Comment on Another Circle Is Now Complete by René F. Najera, DrPH October 19, 2022 22:31
  In reply to <a href="https://epidemiologist.blog/2022/10/14/another-circle-is-now-complete/comment-page-1/#comment-6698">wzrd1</a&gt;. Thanks. I hope you're doing well. And, yeah, I should write said paper... Just after I write all the other papers.