#MRI Software

[asiangroups]

Retail footfall shows resilience as retailers look ahead to Spring Budget

Footfall in February remained somewhat stable, notes a recent report, showing a considerable rise observed after the post-Christmas lull with Valentine's Day emerging as the key contributor.

MRI Software’s latest retail footfall data for February revealed a minor dip of -0.3 per cent compared to February 2024 across all UK retail destinations, driven by a -1.5 per cent decline in high street activity.

This annual fall reflects historical trends for February but may have been compounded this year by a particularly severe flu season, ongoing travel disruptions, and the arrival of Storm Herminia; all of which created further obstacles in driving retail and office-based footfall.

Shopping centres and retail parks bucked the trend recording rises of +0.2 per cent and +1.9 per cent, respectively, and continues to reinforce the benefits of enclosed retail destinations.

[krawdad]

Yeah that doctor is full of shit soft tissue shows up in an MRI but not with enough resolution to show scarring

[writers-potion]

Magic In The Future Ideas

Universities have departments of magic, offering degrees in subjects such as magical anthropology, magical energy studies, comparative magic and magical theology.

Research magicians apply for grants from the government.

MRI scans detect what results from magic activity has on the brain

Some psychotherapists specialize in treating magic-traumatized victims

A large part of each nation's military budget goes towards magical weapons and defenses.

In some areas, magic is so frequent that the concentration of magical energies leads to problems: pets display disturbed behavior, wildlife fail to reproduce, and homing pigeons lose their way.

Instead of finding witchcraft cool, teenagers moan about having to study magic in school.

Software and apps enable ordinary people to use magic on their computers.

In some countries, denying the existence of magic is a punishable offense.

In totalitarian states, all magic is controlled by the government. Anyone found practicing magic without permission gets imprisoned.

Unprotected exposure to large doses of magic is harmful.

Magicians seek publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Environmentalists advocate the use of magic instead of fossil fuel.

Large-scale studies compare the effectiveness of different spells and magic systems on different people, complete with control groups and placebos.

Hospitals employ healing magicians the same way they employ surgeons and scrub nurses.

Teams of mages compete in televised contests.

After decades of unrestricted magic use, humans become aware that magic harms the environment. By that time, Earth suffers the consequences of heavy magic pollution.

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🧠 TITLE: “The Futility of ‘Differences’”

Let’s get this out of the way:

🧬 You are not special.

Not like that.

Not in the way that lets you separate from others and declare yourself a different kind of human.

Because here’s the punchline no one wants to swallow:

The guy who offended you online… has 99.9% of your DNA.

The woman who hurt you, ignored you, disrespected you… her cells breathe exactly like yours.

You think you’re worlds apart from “them,” but biology would laugh in your face—if it wasn’t too busy making you breathe the same air as your enemies.

🎯 We All Run the Same Software

Every single human on Earth runs the same core operating system:

23 chromosomes.

20,000–25,000 protein-coding genes.

One busted ego thinking it’s different because it read Nietzsche or grew up in the Bronx.

You’re not unique.

You’re custom-skinned.

A skin suit with 72% water and an irrational belief that your opinions = your identity.

📊 Stat Dump from Hell

Let’s get statistical:

Humans share 99.9% of their genome with one another.

You share more with a starving child in Cambodia than with your own belief system.

You are genetically closer to someone you hate than chimps are to bonobos.

Let that settle.

You could clone a guy from Siberia and raise him in Tennessee, and no one would know the difference unless he opens his mouth.

🦍 Chimp Check:

You share 98.8% of your genes with chimpanzees.

The 1.2% difference? That’s responsible for TikTok, car insurance, and nuclear warheads.

So yes, you technically beat chimps.

But barely.

And you still scream into your pillow when someone doesn’t text you back.

💑 Biological Absurdity Is Unity

Let’s talk about mating pairs.

Shaquille O’Neal and Greta Thunberg could biologically reproduce.

Let me say that again: 7′1″, 325 lbs of muscle and NBA testosterone

5′1″, 100 lbs of Swedish climate rage

= Perfectly viable child. Same species. No DNA error message.

You think you’re incompatible with someone because they’re “too alpha” or “not your type”?

She could spin on his 13-incher and produce a bundle of joy 9 months later.

Biology doesn’t care. It rubber stamps the union and moves on.

Your ego screams, "That’s weird." Biology shrugs and says, “That’s Wednesday.”

👶 Opposites Don’t Just Attract—They Procreate

Peter Dinklage and Serena Williams could also have a baby. Their child could marry your child, and the genome would yawn.

Because your opinions about height and muscles are cultural. DNA doesn’t care.

It doesn’t care about your Twitter handle. Your sexuality. Your horoscope. Your “vibes.”

All it knows is: Is there a uterus nearby? Can it carry my code? Good. Initiate legacy.

🧠 Emotions Are Not Gendered

Let’s kill another myth:

Women are not “more emotional.”

Men are not “less sensitive.”

What’s different is expression. Not experience.

Functional MRI scans show that amygdala, ventral striatum, and insula light up equally in men and women during:

Joy

Anger

Fear

Grief

Orgasm

Yes. Orgasm. Same brain. Same fireworks.

The only difference is who’s allowed to cry without losing status.

🌡️ Shared Systems, Shared Suffering

The person who blocked you online?

Same cortisol spike when embarrassed.

Same glucose crash when hungry.

Same liver enzymes for stress.

Same shame loops when they realize they said something dumb and can’t take it back.

The anarchist barista and the Republican roofer both feel:

Fear of abandonment

Craving for touch

Fear of death

Need to belong

They just wrap it in different memes.

📍The Delusions We Cling To:

DELUSION A: “Men and women are totally different.” REALITY: Same code, slight plumbing tweak. You’re a software patch apart.

DELUSION B: “Race matters most.” REALITY: Race = pigment + ancestral adaptation. Most is cultural. DNA doesn’t recognize it.

DELUSION C: “Only certain people are evil.” REALITY: Evil is a learned behavior inside a species capable of empathy and genocide from the same nervous system.

💥 Biology Will Always Humble You

You and that influencer you hate? Same spleen. Same serotonin receptor profile.

The girl who ghosted you? Same sleep architecture. Same cervical tension during stress. Same dopamine cascade during forbidden attention.

You want to hate them?

Fine.

But don’t pretend you’re different.

You’re a mirrored neural loop with different haircuts.

🧬 Genetics vs. Culture: The Final Boss Fight

Culture is modular. It’s an app you download after birth.

Your accent? Culture. Your religion? Culture. Your morality? Mostly epigenetic conditioning. Your Spotify playlist? (Please delete it.)

But your biology?

That’s universal.

You laugh the same way babies in Mongolia do. You flinch at the same pitch of pain as toddlers in Brazil. You orgasm like a Roman did. You panic like a Neanderthal did.

And if you think that doesn’t matter?

You’re one war, one blackout, one heartbreak away from realizing it does.

📼 You’ve Been Watching the Wrong Movie

You think the plot is “Who’s right?”

It’s not.

The plot is: How long can we pretend our skin color, genitals, or tweets make us different enough to kill each other?

The credits roll when we either:

Blow ourselves up, or

Admit we were always just primates with language.

📎 Cosmic Reality Check:

You come from the same species that dances at weddings and shits their pants on ayahuasca.

You are 99.9% identical to every stranger on this planet.

And you’re acting like pronouns, taxes, or accents are real divides?

🥶 Last Punch

Biologically, you are:

Hardwired for connection.

Softwired for pain.

Fluids, tissues, and delusion.

You want to divide humanity?

Good luck doing it with 0.1% variation.

Go on. Hate your neighbor.

But remember: Their sweat smells like yours. Their tears fall with the same gravity. And their heartbeat is just an echo of your own.

🎯 Point Is:

You can feel different. Act different. Vote different. But under an electron microscope?

You’re just you. And so is everyone else.

The rest?

Just noise.

🧠 Read more respect-coded doctrine and biological architecture at: 👉 https://linktr.ee/ObeyMyCadence 🛡️ Masculine polarity. Scrolltrap psychology. Unforgiven words. 🚪 Warning: This post made a sociology major cry and hug a plumber.

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[covid-safer-hotties]

Also preserved in our archive

"Just a cold" that changes the structure and mass of your brain

By Nikhil Prasad

Medical News: A groundbreaking study from researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)-USA has shed light on how Long COVID is linked to structural changes in the brain caused by SARS-CoV-2. By using advanced imaging techniques, the team discovered structural changes in the brains of individuals with Long COVID, including increased cortical thickness and gray matter volume in specific regions. This Medical News report will explore the study's key findings, its implications for understanding Long COVID, and what it means for patients suffering from this persistent condition.

Understanding the Research Approach The study involved participants from the UCLA hospital and broader Los Angeles community, with 36 individuals ranging in age from 20 to 67. Among them, 15 had Long COVID symptoms, while others were used as healthy controls. Researchers utilized structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare brain differences between these groups. The study focused on specific brain regions, such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the cingulate gyrus, which are known to be involved in cognitive and emotional processes. These areas were chosen because they are susceptible to inflammation and have been linked to neuropsychiatric symptoms.

To assess participants' cognitive and emotional health, tools like the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Hamilton Anxiety and Depression scales were used. The imaging data were processed using specialized software to measure cortical thickness and gray matter volume, providing a detailed look at the brain's structural changes.

Key Study Findings The study revealed several critical findings that deepen our understanding of Long COVID's impact on the brain. Participants with Long COVID showed:

-Increased Cortical Thickness: Regions such as the caudal anterior cingulate, posterior cingulate, and rostral middle frontal gyrus exhibited significantly higher cortical thickness compared to controls.

-Higher Gray Matter Volume: In areas like the posterior and isthmus cingulate gyri, Long COVID patients had greater gray matter volume.

Interestingly, these structural changes were associated with the severity of clinical symptoms. For example, higher thickness in the cingulate regions correlated with more severe chronic illness scores, while increased insular thickness was linked to anxiety levels.

Such changes suggest that Long COVID might lead to either swelling due to inflammation or compensatory mechanisms like neurogenesis to counteract damage.

How This Study Compares with Previous Research While most COVID-19-related brain studies have shown reductions in gray matter and cortical thickness, this research indicates an increase in these metrics for Long COVID pa tients. Prior studies focused on acute COVID cases often revealed brain shrinkage and cognitive decline. In contrast, this study highlights that Long COVID might involve unique mechanisms, such as prolonged inflammation or a compensatory response to earlier damage.

Implications for Patients and Healthcare Providers These findings are crucial for both patients and healthcare professionals. They suggest that the persistent symptoms of Long COVID, such as brain fog, fatigue, and anxiety, could have a physical basis in brain structure changes. Recognizing this connection can lead to better-targeted treatments and interventions.

The Future of Long COVID Research While this study offers valuable insights, it also leaves many questions unanswered. For example, are these brain changes reversible? Do they worsen over time? The researchers acknowledge the study's limitations, including its small sample size and lack of longitudinal data. Future studies should aim to include larger, more diverse populations and examine changes over time to build a clearer picture of Long COVID's effects.

Conclusions This research from UCLA represents a significant step forward in understanding the neurological impacts of Long COVID. The observed increases in cortical thickness and gray matter volume in certain brain regions provide strong evidence that Long COVID involves measurable structural brain changes. These findings offer hope that by identifying the physical manifestations of this condition, we can develop more effective treatments to alleviate its symptoms. However, the path forward requires continued research to uncover the full extent of these changes and their implications.

The study emphasizes the importance of addressing neuropsychiatric symptoms in Long COVID patients and highlights the need for comprehensive care that includes both physical and mental health support. As we move forward, it is vital to integrate these insights into public health strategies to help those affected by this debilitating condition.

The study findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal: Frontiers in Psychiatry. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1412020/full

[hyptosis]

100% Transparency

So I'm sure a lot of you have noticed I've been as quiet as a mouse in church. I want to to give a clear and honest update. With AI coming in, and just the general vibe of software development the past few years, I've decided to step back pretty hard from game dev and go into a medical field instead. Seeing AI stuff everywhere has just sapped what little love I had left for the industry. Everywhere I look I see this slop, I just don't want to see it anymore. So, I love big complex machines, and our city has a constant need for people to work on/run MRI machines, so I've gone back to school to get my licenses for that. It's been a lot of hard work, I still have a long ways to go to finish it (I'm a little over halfway done), but it's obviously made me drop off the net more than I expected.

I AM STILL WORKING ON ALICE IS DEAD. -WE- ARE STILL WORKING ON ALICE IS DEAD

I'm planning on it being my final hurrah in the gaming industry. And I will finish it no matter what, I have a contract with 2LeftThumbs, we're doing this and we're not going to cheap-out on it, we're going to do it right.

That said, at the end of the day school has just been leaving me beat, med school is hard and I'm not a young man anymore. This is a tumultuous time for a lot of people. Things have FOR SURE slowed down progress. Everyone on the team has stuff going on, so overall we've just not been moving as fast as we'd like. But we will finish the game, I promise. We are all committed to finishing the game!

I will always be available on the discord for Lorestrome and will post smaller updates there. https://discord.com/invite/VVFjTJDrfE

[thatstormygeek]

To be extremely blunt: Microsoft is asking its employees to draft their performance reviews based on the outputs of generative AI models — the same ones underpinning ChatGPT — that are prone to hallucination.  Microsoft is also — as I learned from an internal document I’ve reviewed — instructing managers to use it to summarize "their direct report's Connects, Perspectives and other feedback collected throughout the fiscal year as a basis to draft Rewards/promotion justifications in the Manage Rewards Tool (MRI)," which in plain English means "use a generative AI to read performance reviews that may or may not be written by generative AI, with the potential for hallucinations at every single step."

I find this whole situation utterly disgusting. The Growth Mindset is a poorly-defined and unscientific concept that Microsoft has adopted as gospel, sold through Satya Nadella's book and reams of internal training material, and it's a disgraceful thing to build an entire company upon, let alone one as important as Microsoft. Yet to actively encourage the company-wide dilution of performance reviews — and by extension the lives of Microsoft employees — by introducing generative AI is reprehensible. It shows that, at its core, Microsoft doesn't actually want to evaluate people's performance, but see how well it can hit the buttons that make managers and the Senior Leadership Team feel good, a masturbatory and specious culture built by a man — Satya Nadella — that doesn't know a fucking thing about the work being done at his company. This is the inevitable future of large companies that have simply given up on managing their people, sacrificing their culture — and ultimately their businesses — to as much automation as is possible, to the point that the people themselves are judged based on the whims of managers that don't do the actual work and the machines that they've found to do what little is required of them. Google now claims that 25% of its code is written by AI, and I anticipate Microsoft isn't far behind.

[skaldish]

re: science and spiritual/supernatural, you might want to look up author Corine Sombrun - she took part in some scientific collabs researching trance. I can't be sure yet how good these are, since I've been made aware of her recently (my friend worked on polish edition of one of her books, which I'm also yet to read), but it seems super interesting and I love that it's being looked into. I see on her website that most of her books aren't available in english so far, but some articles are, so there's a start!

Noted! I'll see if there's any weight to it. I think with recent advances of biopsychology there's now the potential to actually rule out probable causes. The issue is that not all of science is on the verge of all the latest advancements, and some scientists are still treating yesterday's developments as novel concepts.

If I may ramble for a second too, since you got me thinking about this topic: I think the main issue we've been facing with science and the supernatural, is that all our technology is designed to interface and measure the natural, and we can't use tools that measure the universe's hardware to read its software anymore than we can read a Wikipedia article by watching electricity move through the server it's hosted on. Crude analogy, but that's the basic concept.

Like...if we were to put me in an MRI, and I were to hold a conversation with Loki while my brain is getting scanned, what would inevitably happen is that my brain will light up in ways that probably correspond with my auditory and language processing, as well as some visual processing and wherever the hell "thinking" lives. And at the same time this is going on, we can have all those ghost-hunting gadgets set up in the room to try to pinpoint where Loki is.

And the inevitable outcome of all this is that the results will be inconclusive...because all of these things are trying to measure matter, rather than a function.

It seems when it comes to anything supernatural, science has a habit of clinging fast to a really outdated false predicate—that anything that's "real" must have a material existence. So of course we're only going to come up with *non-committal wiggly hand gesture* if we keep trying to measure it like this.

No one will say that a Wikipedia article isn't real, despite the fact it has a digital existence. It's not made of matter-based atoms, but energy-based 1's and 0's. Sure, the article may be hosted on something that's made of atoms, but that doesn't give the article itself a material existence—the material thing is just the container it exists in, the same way our universe is the container we exist in.

The only reason why we see Wikipedia articles as words on a screen is because our displays give them the appearance of documents. But this is just a facsimile for our sake only—it's not what the article actually "looks" like.

Like, idk. With how our own digital tech is shaping up, I figure it's only a matter of time before we go, "Maybe there's a thing here that's interfacing with our material world. I bet we can pinpoint what it is, and develop a technology on our end that can interface back."

[hexenmond]

Musk vs NASA

I found this on Mastodon, so it’s a copypaste – please go read the original post by Amata/@sunguramy@flipping.rocks (no login required)!

I've been seeing hate on NASA lately, being bought into by leftists even, and I just want to point out something very important:

Musk has hated NASA for a *long* time. There is a reason it is being attacked, and a reason public opinion is being swayed against NASA: It *keeps SpaceX in line* more than anything else.

NASA is being seen as "competition" to SpaceX, as the obstacle in his way. It has been like this for quite some time, and now, with DOGE and other things, he can do something about it.

I would like to point out a few things:

1. SPACEX IS NOT CHEAPER They boast they can "do what NASA does for 10% the cost!" Sure, it's easy when you did none of the R&D. SpaceX saved on: Landing tech: DC-X project in 1991-1996 Tank structure: Shuttle SLWT tank, 1998-2011 Merlin Engines: direct descendant of the Fastrac Engine, 1997-2001.

Those three things alone saved SpaceX over 90% of the R&D costs. It's easy to "appear" cheap when you're using off the shelf tech someone else (NASA!) developed.

2. NASA IS GREAT FOR THE ECONOMY! For every $1 spent on NASA, $8 is put into economy. Its stupid to not invest in that kind of ROI! 800%! At times, its ROI Has been 1600%!

Simply put, if you defund NASA, the economy would shrink so much you would actually have to RAISE taxes to make up for the lost revenue, and without its existence we would be 30 years behind in technology and the quality of life for everyone would be much lower. Science and research is GOOD for society, it's the fuel for all progress.

3. WHAT HAS NASA DONE FOR ME?! (Surely you just mean NASA is good for tech & science folk....)

Nope! Good for all! Ever have an MRI or CAT Scan? They wouldn't exist without the Apollo program! The software that made them possible was originally written to analyze lunar photography.

Low power digital x-Rays was planetary body research.

Heart pumps are modeled after space shuttle turbopumps.

The software that designed your car was originally written to design spacecraft!

Who do you think pioneered all the early research into alternative power like solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells, and durable batteries? NASA!

NASA developed tech and satellites is also what improves agricultural yields while reducing the needs for water, fertilizer, and pesticides.

Do you really think Musk gives two shits? No. He wants the money, he wants to let SpaceX run amok without any oversight for safety, without any "competition".

All fights are important, but do realise that this one is a huge thorn in his side, and one that is keeping a huge problem from ballooning and swallowing us all whole.

Do not be fooled or swayed by lies, of tactics meant to divide, of things being done to make you be angry at NASA. If he can make you hate NASA, he won.

Expect far more space junk to fall, the night sky to be ruined by satellites, and the loss of all things good that proper research and design does for humanity and gives back to the world. Not to mention: enjoy seeing the horrible things he can accomplish fully unchecked.

ETA: Now that you know, call / fax / email your senators and reps, and whatever else too! Boosting gets people thinking, but thinking is not action!

[restless-mode]

6/29

these last two weeks have been exhausting, i've been studying and studying and studying. i've also been taking meds daily because two weeks ago i woke up with some of my hearing in my left ear gone.

i have an exam and a MRI next week so hopefully both go alright

to-do:

#software engineering ▨ final revision of everything

[bubble-popping]

day 16 :) this is a continuation based off Farewell by scout_eki on ao3! if u haven't heard of them pls read all their stuff their works are so so good

He couldn't get those hours he'd spent with Dream out of his head. The stark contrast between him and Nightmare had been startling, uncomfortable even. Dream was unbearably kind, so patient and genuine and just-nice. How he let Cyber ramble about what he loved, and even seemed interested as well. Not to mention being quite easy on the eyes. Hair like liquid gold, beautifully tan freckled skin, and eyes green as a lit up circuit board. How could Cyber not like him?

So, in the weeks since The Experiment, he dedicated every hour of his free time into creating an android as close to Dream as he could get.

From what he could glean in their time together, Cyber was able to draw out several different designs for his project. Dream possessed slightly more muscle mass than Nightmare, walked at a steadier pace, spoke lighter and faster. All this and more ran through Cyber's head as he brainstormed until finally he settled on a concrete design.

The materials were relatively easy to collect what with Nightmare being far too easy to persuade combined with his own personal stock. Building machines was nothing new to him. After all, he'd built all his equipment himself. Everything from his computer to his EKG heart monitor to his X-Ray machine were crafted by his two hands. He preferred it that way; no chance of faulty equipment.

But an android was no defibrillator or MRI scanner. While hardly unheard of in this society, still only the elites could afford them and the companies that manufactured them were 'tight-lipped,' to say the least. So, he had little precedence to fall back on.

Just three weeks and four days after The Experiment and he had a prototype moving about.

After four weeks, it carried out verbal commands and could multitask.

After six weeks, it looked a lot more like Dream in the outfit Cyber had bought it, but in doing so, he might've humanized it too much. Looking at its face--the face he made--felt like an invasion of privacy. His only references were Nightmare who kept his mask on all the time and the few hours with Dream where he'd quickly deduced he probably wasn't supposed to be seeing his face. So, his best solution was a simple screen that could display different emotions, done through a variety of default emoticons Cyber had installed in its display software.

And after two months, it completed tasks Cyber was certain he didn't code.

When he awoke one morning to the smell of bacon and eggs and freshly squeezed orange juice, he recognized three things. One: there wasn't a doubt in his mind about what a mess the kitchen probably looked like. Two: he should really remember to eat more because there was no way an android could make actually tasty food. And three: he needed to take a look at Dreamoid's--the name he'd settled on for it--programming stat.

To his utter bewilderment, Dreamoid's mental and emotional capacity had been growing exponentially since the day he wired the circuits. Little bits at a time until he could decipher several emotions and possible mind states just by looking at a person's facial expression.

Scary, but also, "Incredible..." he breathed, eyes darting back and forth over the lines of code on his screen. It seemed that with the way he'd set up the various algorithms and what data values he'd fed the starting points had developed into a pseudo-machine learning behavior. Dreamoid got smarter and more precise with each new interaction, even recognizing the complexities of what he saw enough to establish connections between present situations, previous context, and future possibilities. On top of all that, he'd evolved to preemptively make decisions that would avoid what he categorized as 'negative emotion states' and increase the likelihood of positive ones.

The worst of it? Dreamoid consciously tracked his own states, his own consciousness.

Cyber slumped back in his chair. It was official. The robot takeover would happen tomorrow and he was to blame.

How had Dreamoid not completely subjugated him by now? He was more emotionally intelligent than him!

Dreamoid's screen lit up with a big question mark. "What's bothering you, Maker?"

"Uh, it's nothing you need to worry about, Dream. I'm just pondering over something..."

The screen changed, three dots in a row bounced to show Dreamoid was formulating a response. Finally, he settled on a simple smiley face. "Okay. If you say so."

Well, that wasn't ominous at all. Cyber simultaneously feared and excitedly anticipated his future.

[reedsofintimacy]

How smart are you? You’ve given some hints before but how many degrees do you have? What are you studying? What do you want to do in live professionally and passionately? What’s your purpose career wise?

Also hypothetically would you be open to being your wives employee if she had a really successful company?

I actually don't have any degrees! I'm a nerd and smart but also certainly have my flaws.

For context, I was an honors student all growing up. Always tested in the 99th percentile for state aptitude assessments. I got a 33 on my ACT, did well on a bunch of AP tests and went to a non-ivy-league but prestiguous state school in the top 25% of the incoming class and as a university scholar, in an accelerated chemistry PhD program, and lived in an honors community on campus.

I learned to speak some Chinese, became an instructor for a traditional Korean percussion group, led a bible study, tutored students in organic chemistry, and did excellent in my humanities courses writing on topics like a linguistic study of gender conception in viking-era icelandic society and designing an interventional plan to address youth homelessness in the community.

College was the best 2 years of my life, I adored everything about it but I also completely overloaded myself. Turns out you need more than raw brains for success. I was conflicted between prioritizing my studies vs my faith, and had unadressed adhd and anxiety i wasnt ever aware of and didnt know how to cope with. When my 19 credit hours were drowning me, I couldnt own up to the shame of overwhelm and failure, couldnt look my teachers in the eye and ultimately stopped showing up to class and dropped out.

I'm now back in school with a better understanding of myself, an absense of competing priorities and a lot of experience. Im pursuing working in Radiology doing either CT or MRI. A lot of my friends growing up are finishing their PhD theses and I love discussing them with them, but I myself don't have even an associate's to my name.

Career wise, I originally wanted to be a professor of either Chemistry or Materials Science. I debated majoring in Linguistics or teaching English as a second language but i don't speak anything fluent enough to really do that yet. I've since considered pursuing a career in comedy, as a science communicator and journalist or PIO, as a university student advisor, and taught myself to code to maybe pursue programming.

I love learning. Currently I'm putting the most effort into Chinese classical literature. I've done personal units on nutrition, skincare, fitness, urban planning, economics, and some software like adobe illustrator and game dev with Unity and Godot.

For my professional future, I think I'm for now planning on being a travelling technician in healthcare. It'd give me an opportunity to see lots of different places which is a goal of mine and shouldn't have too many commitments keeping me held in place. Maybe I'll finally get over my fear of casual hookups and become a traveling nurse by day and city-to-city clit servicer by night sampling all sorts of delicious lady bits. Idk. For now I'm just focused on what I'm doing in the moment.

In terms of passions I want time and independence to pursue learning as an autodidact. I'd love to maintain access to university libraries and attend lots of public lectures and symposiums if i could live near enough a big university. I want to read about the things that interest me and someday get over my social anxiety and travel to make friends all over the world with fellow nerds.

In terms of working for my wife of course that would be really sexy I'd love to be my partners doting but slutty assistant 💕 depending on the industry i guess. I think something like insurance or real estate is kind of predatory tbh and wouldnt want to be associated with it. But if I didn't have an issue with it I'd adore being my partners employee. Or even just a supportive house husband or trusted personal assistant ❤️❤️ a role i've always thought I have the potential to be quite good at

[june-gdprototyping]

Top 8 Applications of 3D Printing in Medical Industry

3D printing technology, with its highly customizable, responsive and material-saving features, is triggering profound changes in the medical field. Especially in the application of medical models, 3D printing technology shows unparalleled advantages and potential.

Furthermore, 3D printing technology, as an emerging additive manufacturing technology, has made breakthroughs in its application in the medical field in recent years. The application of 3D printing technology in the medical field is becoming more and more widespread. Through the layer-by-layer stacking of digital models, a variety of medical devices, prosthetics, orthotics and other aids, and even human organs, can be accurately printed.

1.Surgical preview model

With 3D printing technology, doctors can create surgical preview models to help them simulate operations before surgery, improving accuracy and safety.

It is important for medical workers to conduct preoperative planning for risky and difficult procedures. In the previous surgical preview process, medical workers often need to obtain the patient's data through CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other imaging equipment, and then the two-dimensional medical image using software to convert into realistic three-dimensional data. Today, medical workers can use devices such as 3D printers to print 3D models directly. In this way, it not only can assist the doctor to carry out accurate surgical planning, improve the success rate of surgery, but also to facilitate the communication and exchange between medical workers and patients on the surgical program plan.

2.Surgical guide

Surgical guides can help the surgeon to accurately position and operate during surgery, reducing surgical errors and improving surgical outcomes.

As an auxiliary surgical tool during surgery, surgical guides can help medical workers to accurately implement surgical programmes. Currently, the types of surgical guides have included joint guides, spinal guides, oral implant guides, etc. With the help of 3D printed surgical guides, firstly, the 3D scanning technology can produce three-dimensional data on the patient's affected area, which allows the doctor to obtain the most realistic information, so as to better plan the surgery. Secondly, while making up for the shortcomings of the traditional surgical guide manufacturing process, the size and shape of the guide can also be adjusted as needed.In this way, different patients can have a guide plate that meets their real needs.

3.Dental applications

3D printing technology is also widely used in the field of dentistry to print personalized trays, moulds, etc., to help patients have better dental treatment.

The application of 3D printing in the dental field mainly focuses on the design and production of metal teeth, invisible braces, etc. The emergence of cutting-edge technology of 3D printing creates more possibilities for those who need orthodontic treatment to achieve personalized and customized braces. At different stages of orthodontic treatment, orthodontists need different sets of braces. With the help of 3D printing to create multiple sets of braces needed for orthodontic treatment, it not only helps the healthy development of teeth, but also reduces the cost of braces production. The significance of these digital technologies is that they are gradually making it less necessary for doctors to make models, dentures, etc. by hand, and returning more of their efforts to the diagnosis of oral diseases and the performance of oral surgery itself.

4.Rehabilitation medical equipment

Through 3D printing technology, a variety of rehabilitation medical devices, such as prosthetics and orthotics, can be created to help patients regain function.

The real value of 3D printing for orthopaedic insoles, bionic hands, hearing aids and other rehabilitation devices is not only to achieve accurate customization, but also to allow accurate and efficient digital manufacturing technology to replace the traditional production methods, reducing the cost of individual customized rehabilitation medical devices and shortening the production cycle. 3D printing process is diversified, and there is a wide range of 3D printing materials. SLA light-curing 3D printing technology has the advantage of being able to provide the most efficient and cost-effective 3D printing technology. SLA light-curing 3D printing technology is widely used in rapid prototyping by the medical device industry due to its advantages of fast processing speed, high precision, good surface quality of photosensitive resin material moulding and moderate cost.

5.Medical Equipment Cases

3D printing technology can also be used to create a variety of medical devices, such as surgical instruments and medical equipment, to improve the personalization and accuracy of medical devices.

Take the example of 3D printing for mass customized production in the hearing aid shell industry. In the traditional way, injection moulds need to be made from a model of the patient's ear canal. The final shape of the hearing aid is obtained by drilling sound holes and manually processing the plastic product. If a mistake is made during the process, the mould needs to be recreated. The process of making a hearing aid using a 3D printer, on the other hand, begins with the design of a silicone mould or impression of the patient's ear canal, a step that is done using a 3D scanner. CAD software is then used to convert the scanned data into a design file that can be read by the 3D printer. The designer can then use the software to modify the 3D image and create the final product shape.

6.Precision replication and personalization

3D printing technology is able to accurately restore a patient's anatomy and produce full-size, high-fidelity medical models based on the patient's CT, MRI and other imaging data. These models not only have extremely high geometric accuracy and surface quality, but also reflect the unique physiological characteristics of the patient, providing doctors with real and reliable references.

7.Teaching and training

3D printed medical models also play an important role in medical education and training. By printing out models of various typical cases, medical students can perform practical operations in a simulated surgical environment to enhance their surgical skills and resilience. At the same time, these models can also be used as teaching tools to help students better understand human anatomy and disease principles.

8.Scientific research and experimentation

In the field of medical research, 3D printed medical models also have important applications. Researchers can use these models to conduct experimental studies such as drug screening and biomechanical testing to explore new treatment methods and technologies. In addition, by printing tissue or organ models with specific physiological functions, they can also provide strong support for research in cutting-edge fields such as organ transplantation and regenerative medicine.

In summary, 3D printing technology has a wide and far-reaching significance in the application of medical models. It not only improves the accuracy and efficiency of medical services, but also promotes the innovative development of medical education, research and clinical practice. With the continuous progress of technology and the expansion of application scope, we have reason to believe that 3D printing will play a more important role in the future medical field.

[tangentiallly]

Despite uncovering widespread AI errors in healthcare, Ziad remained optimistic about how algorithms might help to care better for all patients. He felt they could be particularly useful in improving diagnostics that doctors tended to get wrong, but also in improving our current medical knowledge by discovering new patterns in medical data. Most modern healthcare AI is trained on doctors’ diagnoses, which Ziad felt wasn’t enough. ‘If we want AI algorithms to teach us new things,’ he said, ‘that means we can’t train them to learn just from doctors, because then it sets a very low ceiling – they can only teach us what we already know, possibly more cheaply and more efficiently.’ Rather than use AI as an alternative to human doctors – who weren’t as scarce as in rural India – he wanted to use the technology to augment what the best doctors could do.

[….]

To solve the mystery, Ziad had to return to first principles. He wanted to build a software that could predict a patient’s pain levels based on their X-ray scans. But rather than training the machine-learning algorithms to learn from doctors with their own intrinsic biases and blind spots, he trained them on patients’ self-reports. To do this, he acquired a training dataset from the US National Institutes of Health, a set of knee X-rays annotated with patients’ own descriptions of their pain levels, rather than simply a radiologist’s classification. The arthritis pain model he built found correlations between X-ray images and pain descriptions. He then used it to predict how severe a new patient’s knee pain was, from their X-ray. His goal wasn’t to build a commercial app, but to carry out a scientific experiment.

It turned out that the algorithms trained on patients’ own reported pain did a far better job than a human radiologist in predicting which knees were more painful.

The most striking outcome was that Ziad’s pain model outperformed human radiologists at predicting pain in African American patients. ‘The algorithms were seeing signals in the knee X-ray that the radiologist was missing, and those signals were disproportionately present in black patients and not white patients,’ he said. The research was published in 2021, and concluded: ‘Because algorithmic severity measures better capture underserved patients’ pain, and severity measures influence treatment decisions, algorithmic predictions could potentially redress disparities in access to treatments like arthroplasty.’

Meanwhile, Ziad plans to dig deeper to decode what those signals are. He is using machine-learning techniques to investigate what is causing excess pain using MRIs and samples of cartilage or bone in the lab. If he finds explanations, AI may have helped to discover something new about human physiology and neuroscience that would have otherwise been ignored.

— Madhumita Murgia, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

[jeraldnepoleon]

Top 10 Electronic Health Records Apps Efficient Data Management | Grapes IDMR

In today’s fast-paced healthcare landscape, efficient data management is vital for enhancing patient care, reducing errors, and ensuring seamless workflows. Electronic Health Records (EHR) software is key to achieving these goals by centralizing and digitizing medical records. Grapes IDMR is committed to helping healthcare providers identify the best EHR solutions, and we've curated a list of the top 10 EHR apps that can transform medical data management in any healthcare facility.

Let’s dive into one of the top picks:

1. Doctor-G App Specifications

Teleconsultation: Doctor-G revolutionizes patient care by offering seamless teleconsultation features, allowing healthcare providers to conduct virtual appointments with patients from anywhere. This not only enhances accessibility for patients but also ensures that doctors can provide timely medical advice without the need for in-person visits.

Online Prescription: Doctor-G’s online prescription functionality allows doctors to easily generate and send prescriptions directly to patients or their preferred pharmacies. This feature minimizes the risk of prescription errors, streamlines the medication dispensing process, and enhances the overall patient experience by making it more convenient to receive necessary medications.

History View: Doctor-G provides a comprehensive history view that allows healthcare professionals to access and review patients' medical histories effortlessly. This feature ensures that doctors have all the necessary information at their fingertips, facilitating informed decision-making and personalized patient care.

Integrated Features for Enhanced Healthcare Management

Doctor-G stands out with its robust specifications designed to meet the dynamic needs of modern healthcare. The Teleconsultation feature enables doctors to conduct virtual visits, expanding access to care and reducing the need for physical appointments. The Online Prescription system simplifies the process of prescribing medications, ensuring accuracy and convenience for both doctors and patients. Additionally, the History View provides a detailed and easily accessible record of patients’ medical histories, empowering healthcare providers to make informed decisions and deliver personalized care. These integrated features make Doctor-G a comprehensive solution for efficient and effective healthcare management.

2. Grapes BSA-PRO Specifications

Patient Vitals: Grapes BSA-PRO enables healthcare professionals to easily monitor and track patients' vital signs, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. This real-time data helps doctors stay updated on their patient's health status, ensuring timely interventions and better patient care.

Surgery Information: The app provides a dedicated section for storing and managing surgery details, including surgical procedures, dates, and post-operative care instructions. This feature helps doctors and medical staff maintain a clear and organized record of all surgeries for each patient, making follow-up care smoother and more efficient.

Diagnostic Results: Grapes BSA-PRO ensures that diagnostic test results, such as blood tests, X-rays, and MRIs, are easily accessible within the app. This feature allows doctors to view and analyze test outcomes quickly, supporting faster and more accurate diagnoses, and enabling better-informed treatment decisions.

A Comprehensive Solution for Healthcare Providers

Grapes BSA-PRO combines essential features like Patient Vitals, Surgery Information, and Diagnostic Results to offer a well-rounded tool for healthcare professionals. Centralizing critical medical data in one app empowers doctors to provide timely and efficient care, improving the overall patient experience and enhancing healthcare management.

3. Grapes IDMR Specifications

Patient Records: Grapes IDMR provides a comprehensive platform for managing patient records, allowing healthcare professionals to store, access, and update vital patient information easily. From medical history to treatment plans, all data is securely organized in one place, enabling seamless healthcare delivery and personalized care.

Billing: The integrated billing feature in Grapes IDMR simplifies the financial aspect of healthcare management. It automates the billing process, ensuring accuracy in generating invoices and tracking payments. This functionality reduces administrative workload and provides a smoother payment experience for patients and healthcare facilities.

Appointments: Grapes IDMR streamlines appointment scheduling by offering a user-friendly interface for managing patient appointments. Healthcare providers can easily schedule, modify, and track patient visits, ensuring efficient time management and reducing scheduling conflicts.

An All-in-One Solution for Healthcare Management Grapes IDMR combines essential features like Patient Records, Billing, and Appointments to offer a holistic solution for healthcare facilities. By consolidating critical data and processes in one platform, Grapes IDMR enhances operational efficiency, ensuring smoother workflows and improved patient care.

4. My-Grapes Specifications

Easily Book Appointments: My-Grapes simplifies the appointment booking process for both patients and healthcare providers. With a user-friendly interface, patients can easily schedule appointments, while healthcare staff can manage and organize bookings efficiently, ensuring a smooth and streamlined experience.

Generate Bills: The app offers a convenient billing feature that allows healthcare providers to generate accurate and detailed bills with just a few clicks. This reduces the time spent on administrative tasks, ensures billing accuracy, and provides patients with a hassle-free payment process.

Vital Patient Information: My-Grapes securely stores and organizes vital patient information, including medical history, test results, and treatment plans. This ensures that healthcare providers have quick access to critical data, improving patient care and enabling informed medical decisions.

A Simplified Approach to Healthcare Management My-Grapes offers a complete solution with features such as Easily Book Appointments, Generate Bills, and Vital Patient Information. By streamlining these key processes, My-Grapes enhances operational efficiency for healthcare providers while improving the overall patient experience.

5. Grapes MIS Specifications

OP/IP Status Updates: Grapes MIS provides real-time updates on both outpatient (OP) and inpatient (IP) statuses. This feature allows healthcare providers to track patient progress, manage care efficiently, and ensure timely interventions by having up-to-date information on patient activities and conditions.

Live Financial Activity Tracking: The app includes a robust financial tracking system that monitors live financial activity. Healthcare facilities can keep a close watch on revenue streams, expenditures, and overall financial health, facilitating better budget management and financial planning.

Bed Occupancy Status: Grapes MIS offers a comprehensive view of bed occupancy status across the facility. This feature helps in managing hospital resources effectively by providing real-time data on available and occupied beds, aiding in efficient patient placement and resource allocation.

Optimizing Hospital Operations Grapes MIS enhances hospital management with key features like OP/IP Status Updates, Live Financial Activity Tracking, and Bed Occupancy Status. These tools provide healthcare facilities with critical insights and real-time data, supporting better operational decisions and improving overall efficiency.

6. Third Eye Specifications

Hospital Asset Management: Third Eye offers a robust system for managing hospital assets, including medical equipment, supplies, and infrastructure. This feature helps hospitals track and maintain their assets efficiently, ensuring that all equipment is in optimal condition and available when needed.

Essential Equipment and Resources: The app provides comprehensive oversight of essential hospital equipment and resources. By monitoring usage, maintenance schedules, and inventory levels, Third Eye ensures that critical resources are well-managed and readily available for patient care.

Efficient Asset and Resource Management with Third Eye

Third Eye enhances hospital management with features such as Hospital Asset Management and oversight of Essential Equipment and Resources. By offering detailed tracking and management capabilities, Third Eye helps healthcare facilities maintain operational efficiency and ensure that all necessary resources are in place to support quality patient care.

7. Vedha Specifications

Real-Time Inventory Tracking: Vedha offers real-time inventory tracking, providing up-to-date information on stock levels and usage. This feature ensures that healthcare providers can monitor inventory accurately and make informed decisions regarding supply management.

Automated Reordering: With Vedha’s automated reordering system, healthcare facilities can streamline their supply chain management. The app automatically generates purchase orders when stock levels fall below predefined thresholds, ensuring that essential items are always available without manual intervention.

Batch and Expiry Management: Vedha helps manage the lifecycle of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals through batch and expiry management. The app tracks expiration dates and batch numbers, reducing the risk of using expired or incorrect products and enhancing patient safety.

Streamlined Inventory and Supply Management with Vedha: 

Vedha simplifies inventory management with features like Real-Time Inventory Tracking, Automated Reordering, and Batch and Expiry Management. These functionalities work together to optimize supply chain operations, ensuring that healthcare facilities maintain accurate inventory levels, reduce waste, and enhance overall efficiency.

8. G Call Specifications

Alert Call for Attender and Housekeeping: G Call provides a streamlined alert system for requesting assistance from attendants and housekeeping staff. This feature ensures that help is promptly dispatched when needed, improving the efficiency of hospital operations and enhancing patient care.

Emergency Alert Notifications: The app includes an emergency alert system that sends instant notifications to relevant hospital staff in case of critical situations. This feature facilitates quick response times during emergencies, ensuring that necessary actions are taken swiftly to address urgent medical needs.

Enhancing Hospital Efficiency with G Call

G Call enhances hospital management through features like Alert Call for Attender and Housekeeping and Emergency Alert Notifications. By facilitating prompt communication and quick response to emergencies, G Call ensures that hospital staff can efficiently address patient needs and maintain smooth hospital operations.

9. 360Degree Specifications

Remote Computer Control: 360Degree allows users to control computer systems remotely using their smartphones. This feature provides flexibility and convenience, enabling users to manage computer operations from anywhere, whether they’re on the go or away from their workstation.

Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, Lock: The app offers a range of remote functions including Shutdown, Restart, Logoff, and Lock. These capabilities help users manage their computer systems efficiently, ensuring that operations can be adjusted or secured as needed without physical access to the devices.

Flexible Remote Management with 360Degree

360Degree revolutionizes computer management with features like Remote Computer Control and the ability to shut down, Restart, log off, and Lock systems directly from your smartphone. This functionality provides users with enhanced control and flexibility, making it easier to manage computer operations efficiently and securely from any location.

10. G-office Specifications

Office File Management App: G-office is a comprehensive solution for managing office files, allowing users to organize, access, and edit documents efficiently. The app supports various file formats and provides tools for smooth document handling, ensuring that users can easily manage their office paperwork.

Data Security and Encryption: G-office prioritizes data security with advanced encryption protocols that protect sensitive information. This feature ensures that all files and documents are secure from unauthorized access and potential data breaches, maintaining confidentiality and integrity.

Cloud Storage Integration: The app integrates seamlessly with cloud storage services, enabling users to store and access their files from any device with internet connectivity. This feature ensures that documents are always available and backed up, facilitating collaboration and remote work.

Efficient and Secure File Management with G-office

G-office offers a robust platform for Office File Management, enhanced by features like Data Security and Encryption and Cloud Storage Integration. By providing secure document handling and flexible cloud access, G-office ensures that users can efficiently manage their office files while maintaining high levels of security and convenience.

Conclusion

In the evolving landscape of healthcare technology, selecting the right Electronic Health Records (EHR) software is crucial for enhancing operational efficiency and patient care. Our list of the Top 10 EHR Apps showcases a range of solutions designed to streamline medical data management, from teleconsultation and online prescriptions to real-time inventory tracking and remote computer control.

Each app on our list, including standout options like DOCTOR-G, Grapes BSA-PRO, and Vedha, offers unique features tailored to meet diverse healthcare needs. Whether it's facilitating virtual appointments, managing patient records, or ensuring the efficient handling of medical resources, these EHR apps provide comprehensive tools to improve healthcare delivery.

[ghoulodont]

thoughts i wrote down sitting in my car after the ritual because there was too much traffic in the parking lot

so going to a concert is basically just like an mri. its claustrophobic and there are loud sounds that vibrate your skeleton and you wear earplugs. however instead of seeing pictures of the inside of your body you get to see beautiful wonderful ghouls

im still sort of in awe of all the little things about physically being there. i havent watched a ton of videos of this tour besides little short clips so i didnt know exactly moment for moment how it goes but like i know what songs they play, what jokes theyre going to do, etc. the two things that really stood out were the heat of the fire and also the smell of everyones sugary alcohol drinks and vaping. i was also staring into the lights like i was possessed. and the fireworks were so loud

im afflicted by a schizo trait "flat affect" which means i never really look happy or like im having fun and i was really self conscious about it. i dont think my case is that bad but ive literally gotten scolded at work for this and im a software developer which i feel like should be the kind of job where you get free rein to be socially inept. anyway i felt kind of guilty but i really did have fun despite my offputting appearance

you already know i wont say anything more specific than this but it was thrilling to be in the presence of tumblr mutual(s) in a physical space even if we didnt interact or anything