What Patients Don't Know About Medical Schools
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-patients-dont-know-about-medical.html
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/05/what-patients-dont-know-about-medical.html
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What Patients Don't Know About Medical Schools
What makes a good doctor? Is it medical school?
Sometimes people forget that there are simple ways to stay happy on the internet. So.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/05/how-to-stay-sane-online-in-7-simple.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/05/how-to-stay-sane-online-in-7-simple.html
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How To Stay Sane Online in 7 Simple Steps
How to stay sane on an increasingly crazy internet
In which I don't talk about a single feature of Zotero, still argue for why researchers should use Zotero (and not Mendeley)
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/05/why-researchers-who-care-about-equity.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/05/why-researchers-who-care-about-equity.html
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Why Researchers Who Care About Equity Should Use Zotero (and Not Mendeley)
A short introduction to the ethics of software licenses
Working code breaking suddenly? Suspect the dependencies.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/node-bugs-in-upgrade/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/node-bugs-in-upgrade/
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It Was Working In Previous Release, But Not In The Present - Debugging Bugs Introduced By Dependency Upgrades
Errors introduced by dependency upgrades are sometimes difficult to track down, especially if you are not clear about how dependency resolution works in node
Simple hack with systemd timer and espeak to speak the time out every hour
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hourly-chime/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hourly-chime/
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Hourly Chime With Timers and TTS
In an online session today a participant had a chime every hour that said the time “It is 4”, “It is 5”, etc. I wanted it on my computer.
Most diagnoses in medical consultations are made through history alone. Applying some heart (in addition to mind) makes it much more effective.
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/05/history-taking-through-heart.html
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/05/history-taking-through-heart.html
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History Taking Through Heart
An algorithm to take patient history without worrying about algorithms
This is a Malayalam video in which I try to bring epistemological nuance to a debate on whether science is the only way of knowing.
https://youtu.be/e-3cZmEy9ao
https://youtu.be/e-3cZmEy9ao
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Science is the Only Way Of Knowing, But Knowledge is Plural
Dr Viswanathan C talks about how science is the only way of knowing, which I agree with and disagree with at the same time. Because as I describe in this video, there are multiple truths that are possible.
Also read this follow-up blog post: https://blo…
Also read this follow-up blog post: https://blo…
In this follow-up, I summarize those arguments and add some more context:
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/06/is-science-only-way-of-knowing.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/06/is-science-only-way-of-knowing.html
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Is Science The Only Way of Knowing?
The politics and arrogance of science and why rationalists should shun that.
I'm glad that it is so easy to change the way we think about the world even as an adult.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/06/giving-up-ideological-purism.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/06/giving-up-ideological-purism.html
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Giving up Ideological Purism
The unsustainable and self-contradictory nature of ideological purism which I'm giving up, at least temporarily.
Government should clarify how intermediaries can implement traceability without making it impossible for citizens to have private conversations.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hash-constants-break-encryption/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/hash-constants-break-encryption/
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Hash Constants Break Encryption
Government of India says that message hashes can be used to trace originator of messages without breaking encryption. This is a sincere lie.
Because people think "You shouldn't feel that way" is a helpful response.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/responsibility-is-natural/
https://asd.learnlearn.in/responsibility-is-natural/
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It is Natural to Feel Responsible for your Project
Just because you don’t make money from the software you write, you don’t have to disclaim all responsibility of it
Who takes responsibility for the system?
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/07/changing-system.html
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/07/changing-system.html
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Changing The "System"
How to go from blaming the system to changing the system
In which I question whether hatred is always productive in social justice movements.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/07/hatred-based-on-stereotypes-weaken.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/07/hatred-based-on-stereotypes-weaken.html
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Hatred Based on Stereotypes Weaken Social Justice Movements
Is a nuanced use of hatred useful?
What happens when you look at social problems from a different dimension?
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/07/x-y-by-eugenia-cheng-roadmap-to.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/07/x-y-by-eugenia-cheng-roadmap-to.html
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x + y by Eugenia Cheng - a Roadmap to Collaboration Between Social Justice Movements
Is there a common point of agreement among various social justice movements?
In which I ask what being a liberal is supposed to mean
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/08/why-would-conservatives-change-when.html
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2021/08/why-would-conservatives-change-when.html
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Why Would Conservatives Change when Liberals Don't?
Are liberals fooling themselves?