Hacker News: abhisuri97

New comment by abhisuri97 in "My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)"

abhisuri97 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:59:19 +0000

med student here: Reducing immunosuppressant not something to be taken lightly for kidney transplant patients. I was shocked when I read that sentence.

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

abhisuri97 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:18:52 +0000

this is pubmed. Most papers that are funded by NIH research are available on pubmed if the main publisher gives access to the full text (after some set embargo period...usually around a year).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Why doctors hate their computers (2018)"

abhisuri97 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 04:01:38 +0000

Med student here: oftentimes the attendings who are googling are usually doing it because the patient's symptoms don't fit with the most common illness "scripts" we develop in our mind and have ready for the 90% of patients who walk in the door. The google is a quick sanity check to see if these symptoms are within the range of "normal" for the most likely differential diagnoses (i.e. list of most likely diagnoses based on the patient's presentation).

That or those symptoms are exceptionally vague or uncommon enough that they warrant a quick refresher on google for leads on additional questions we should ask of patients (the most common offender here is rashes/skin lesions imo since they can literally be a manifestation of super simple "oh you just changed your shampoo" to "you have a rare autoimmune condition"...asking a comprehensive history from patients can help determine what tests to order).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex"

abhisuri97 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:30:01 +0000

I'm honestly surprised it managed to output hex and still be sensible. what part of the training corpus even has long form hex values that isn't just machine code?

What Japan Teaches Its Kids [video]

abhisuri97 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:03:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW0auOiqm4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251867

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by abhisuri97 in "SimpleQA"

abhisuri97 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:34:42 +0000

https://github.com/openai/simple-evals/blob/main/simpleqa_ev...

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Debugging the Doctor Brain: Who's teaching doctors how to think?"

abhisuri97 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:48:49 +0000

Yes. Doctors in the US have to get a certain amount of Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits (usually done by attending conferences and lectures).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer"

abhisuri97 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:25:18 +0000

Med student here. My guess is the following: So with CF your pancreas can’t secrete many of the enzymes that are necessary to actually digest food. You can take medications to help with that digestion, but regardless, you aren’t actually getting all the calories in your food with CF because it isn’t making its way into your body (notably patients with CF have steatorrhea which is fat in their stool because they can’t absorb a lot of fat from their foods like a non-CF patient). The med helps the pancreas recover some of its ability to secrete digestive enzymes and so patients can now eat and get more from their food. The issue is that there needs to be a recalibration in terms of how much patients are eating. Previously a 2000 calorie diet may not have gotten them so far because they didn’t absorb much of it, but now they’re absorbing a lot more of it. Plus increased work of breathing with CF expends more calories compared to a non-CF patient (and patients on this drug).

iPhone Passcode Problem-Thieves Can Ruin Your Entire Digital Life in Minutes

abhisuri97 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 05:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYODQB_2wQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34966028

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Show HN: Generate quiz questions using AI"

abhisuri97 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 04:51:04 +0000

as a med student, i'd 100% pay for this service if it can take my in house lecture ppts as input

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Stable Diffusion is a big deal"

abhisuri97 — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:53:01 +0000

I’m more trying to see what the utility of stable diffusion (or just the text to image problem) in the long term. Right now people can play around with making weird art pieces and maybe it will be integrated into design tools...but then what?

Eg with other AI problems out there I can see a potential application to medicine, self driving cars etc, but I just don’t see what the bigger goal of this is going to be.

Show HN: I wrote a book to teach doctors about AI

abhisuri97 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:26:15 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7780-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30757054

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by abhisuri97 in "So you want to study mathematics"

abhisuri97 — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 21:37:54 +0000

As a fellow penn alum, I can totally vouch for Ghrist's approach to calculus. Check out his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfGhristMath

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Things I learned writing my first technical book"

abhisuri97 — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:42:40 +0000

I don't think it's mission:impossible for some people...but for people such as myself, my editor really gave a sense of external accountability + pressure to finish. If I didn't have an editor, I'm 90% sure I would have stopped around 2 chapters in and tabled it for some other time (read as: never touched it again). Also, there are perks to having a formal publisher: you have reviewers, copy editors, and formatters who really make sure that things are really standardized. That really allowed me to focus on writing.

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Crohn’s Disease: Is the Cold Chain Hypothesis Still Hot?"

abhisuri97 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 02:10:55 +0000

Surprised this isn't higher up. Crohn's was formally named/created as its own clinical entity in 1932 and the paper shows one of its graphs (Fig 1) starting in the 1940s. I doubt 8 years was enough for awareness to get out to the entire physician community about the existence of the disease and there were probably a lot of misdiagnosed cases in its early days (since crohn's has a clinically diverse presentation).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)"

abhisuri97 — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 08:50:10 +0000

Fully agree with this. The fact that the "hello world" program involves the use of several keywords (public static void main String[] args System.out.println) that students will have no idea about until 1-2 months later is not ideal. Compare that to python "print('hello world')" is very intuitive.

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Stop Making Students Use Eclipse (2020)"

abhisuri97 — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 08:46:32 +0000

I had to teach web dev to students who were coming straight out of the intro courses that used Eclipse and yeah...everything that the author is saying here is right and these IDEs do a disservice to them. A surprising amount of students don't have an idea of working around the command line, file systems, and in general develop poor debugging skills (and, in turn, poor programming skills since they're used to eclipse etc filling in everything for them).

I think a good middleground is the IDE that CS50 has their students use. It gives them exposure to the command line and allows them to actually debug on their own. Of course, utilization of that IDE in intro CS courses means that these courses won't be using java anymore (and I frankly have no idea why it's still a mainstay of cs courses to this day).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)"

abhisuri97 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 21:44:45 +0000

"You are free to code native JS". this really does seem like a simple/obvious statement, but I've been in the position where I've taught JS to beginners and holy crap...the amount of people that think they need to know React to do something as simple as a counter is absolutely insane. I think that the space of intro to web dev has been polluted by people pushing frameworks/libraries onto people when really just simple dom manipulation would do the trick.

I think the issue the article was getting at is that the idea of the hammer is considered "obsolete"/useless by the experts in the field, leading those experts to push tool making factories onto beginners who really don't need it for their purpose (but don't know the wiser since they're new to woodworking after all).

...or maybe i'm reading too much into it.

New comment by abhisuri97 in "DNA→RNA: What Do Students Think the Arrow Means? (2014)"

abhisuri97 — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 20:07:32 +0000

https://kraulis.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/why-do-so-many-scie... Also an interesting read about how the central dogma was never really meant to be presented in teh way that it is currently presented (really was meant to focus on "information" flow starting at DNA rather than show a definitive guide to the transformations between these molecules in a cell).

New comment by abhisuri97 in "How the Python import system works"

abhisuri97 — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:56:21 +0000

Despite using python for the past 4 years, it still takes me several tries to set up packages and imports correctly when I make them myself. Honestly, I wish that python had an import system similar to JS (where you can just say “I want this file” and specify the exports yourself). For me, it just feels more intuitive and less “magic”-like when dealing with custom scripts you want to import.