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July 2022, Agua Caliente
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Cardiologists were like “what happens to our patients when we’re all away at our meetings????” but it turns out they do better jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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Importance  Thousands of physicians attend scientific meetings annually. Although hospital physician staffing and composition may be affected by meetings, patient outcomes and treatment patterns during meeting dates are unknown.

Objective  To analyze mortality and treatment differences among patients admitted with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings compared with nonmeeting dates.
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Conclusions and Relevance  High-risk patients with heart failure and cardiac arrest hospitalized in teaching hospitals had lower 30-day mortality when admitted during dates of national cardiology meetings. High-risk patients with AMI admitted to teaching hospitals during meetings were less likely to receive PCI, without any mortality effect.
5:10 AM ∙ Aug 27, 2022
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The right question to ask is: "Maybe operations (which require the cardiologist to be present) have high risk but long term rewards", this would imply maybe better survival numbers further out. But, don't worry, they checked that too.

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Chris Rodgers 🦚 @rodgeau
The human eye is an excellent example of suboptimal bottom-up design resulting from the constraints of evolutionary historical contingency
evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.comSuboptimal Optics: Vision Problems as Scars of Evolutionary History - Evolution: Education and OutreachThe human eye is an excellent example of suboptimal bottom-up design resulting from the constraints of evolutionary historical contingency. The resulting suboptimal optics manifests in a number of medical ophthalmological disorders.
2:48 AM ∙ Aug 13, 2022

I had previously heard about how the retina cells are upside down, but I had not heard about all of these other problems. The nonfunctional redundancy of the muscles is particularly silly.

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David Bauer @davidbauer
This is how they win: a robot that shoots legos right under your feet. youtube.com/watch?v=I6gpKF…
A person ties to avoid stepping on lego bricks that are fired at their feet by a motion tracking robot.
8:52 AM ∙ Jul 10, 2022
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Well that's some AI Risk right there! The robot's creator: "Why do this? I don't know". Clearly we're doomed.

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