I really love Guy Ritchie's tip of the hat in The Gentlemen from Hugh Grant's character where when talking about watching a conversation through a telephoto lens he says, "But I filmed it, had it lip-read, translated, and transcribed. Rather like the classic 1974 film The Conversation starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale. You know, Coppola slipped that one out between the Godfathers. It wasn't really for me. It's a bit boring to be honest...."
I don't know why but that makes me laugh every time. (And I agree w/ The Conversation being underrated)
I have a love/hate relationship as well, mostly because I grew up within bicycling distance and spent way too much time at the museum.
The XB-70 used to be parked outside right in front of the main entrance. The cool thing is they also have the X-3, which seems like the same design family so you can see the test article then the attempt at a usable aircraft.
It was also the location of one of the most bonkers thing I've ever seen which was when they relocated an SR-71 to the museum and landed it on this very short old runway at the site. That thing was so big and so fast and that runway even at the time seemed so short. Here's a vid. I saw it from the road off the end of the threshold and it looked like it was going to hit the fence on the landing pass.
we lived in rona hills for about 4 years. not biking distance, but close enough to visit frequently. and as a youngster they let me conduct the AF orchestra there at the AF 25th anniversary. Very good memories.
As a funny aside, I had applied to lucas arts around 1996 and never heard back from them. I ended up getting a job at industrial light and magic (as they were both companies under lucas digital) thinking I could then transfer over to lucas arts.
But we would visit for the company store, and I would be nosy and go talk to people. This was during production of grim fandango and there was a tangible ramp up of stress in that building as the release approached. I remember one of the testers sitting there staring at the manny character on his screen and bemoaning, "I used to love playing games".
And the voice acting was amazing. Especially for a game.
I think I have rose colored glasses as I remember the game being difficult in the sense of lots of walking around trying to find the solution to the last couple of puzzles. Having played the remaster, it was clear how clunky the controls were. But wow, I still love that game.
Ack --> I misread your article and thought your child was 14 years old, not 4. I don't believe kids that young qualify for any of the auto-adjusting toolkits. The medtronic has a minimum age of 14 (I think). In any case, the best advice I can give is to get your child on something like medtronic's pump + cgm + smartguard as soon as you can. Ideally the minimum age limits will drop and the quality of the treatment will keep improving.
I left the no-longer-relevant-to-you comment below in case it would be interesting to others.
This is a different suggestion than you were talking about in your article, but:
If possible, I would highly suggest trying out the medtronic minimed 780g with guardian 4 or simplera using the "smartguard" feature. This is the first out of the box solution I've ever tried that almost (but not quite) felt like magic in terms of achieving good control that was mostly automated.
This setup provides 3 things not yet available in the dexcom associated systems:
1) auto adjusts your basal rate (via a weighted average or 6ish days)
2) aggressively adjusts basal rate to avoid lows
3) aggressively micro boluses to help prevent highs.
I have recently switched from a tandem x2 with dexcom g6 and g7 and used with xdrip+ android phone app (similar or same as the nightscout you mention, depending on where you get it.)
The dexcom cgm with the tandem auto correct would typically take (for me) 6 hours to correct a high from something like too low meal bolus. The medtronic usually takes less than 2 hours and doesn't peak nearly as high.
More importantly, the hypoglycemia prevention is a complete game changer. I have not had a severe low blood sugar since switching -- and this means avoiding the hypoglycemia followed by 24-48 hours of higher insulin resistance.
The out of the box systems are getting really good, and are advancing at a quick pace now (which until recently hasn't been the case). The quality of control I have now is much better than with xdrip+ and the auto controls available in the tandem x2.
I used to eyeball my android phone many times during the day to follow trends and try and catch highs or lows early. Now, I don't need to adjust basal rates. If I miss calculate the carb counting for a meal, the auto correct takes care of it. Now I only need to pay attention to longer trends relating to meals boluses and relying more on a1c values to double check that the control is really ok.
We looked at the Medtronic 780g system, there are a bunch of problems for a four year old. Most obvious is the tube, it gets in the way, the omnipod is waterproof and just works. The next is inserting the guardian sensors used to be horrific (as I understand it they have an applicator now) but my son barely feels the dexcom G7 insertion.
AAPS is good, it could be better, but it has a complete set of features we need. Just need a phone
In the US and EU, children that young are authorized to use CGM and Omnipod. It’s functionally equivalent to the tube based systems, expect that it only lasts 3 days. Ugh.
But the total automation of basal based on realtime CGM is a lifesaver.
with Medtronic, I am always concerned about the tube as you've to carry it around and with kids, it becomes difficult, so we're opting for Omni Pod. I hope they make it tubeless some how and CGM + Pump in 1 system . With Med, you still have to manage the dose prior - no ?
I really like the welch labs series on imaginary numbers which covers the first part of what you talk about -- leveling up the notion of what a complex number is. Though his focus was more on solving simple equations with no real roots, but really detailing how/what is really going on.
It is a great precursor to then thinking about quaternions
That exact video is the one that always comes to my mind when thinking of YT videos on this! I've seen it years ago. Definitely worth a watch for anyone who hasn't see it!
Second, if you aren't aware or in case others are interested, the main dev from the xdrip project released a custom watch as well: https://bluejay.website/
There are some posts on reddit from the dev. (for others -- the watch is available for purchase, and allows integration w/ xdrip).
Third --> we've come a long way in a short time. When I was diagnosed I had to collect urine samples and drop chemical tablets in them to see how much glucose was present. And now you are building an custom solution tailored to your and your son's needs...wow. I really applaud you.
Fourth --> I'm hoping the new discoveries in the synthetic signaling w/ insulin will finally give us a biological solution and the tech will no longer be necessary. Here's to hoping!
Yes! The BlueJay watch project is amazing, very encouraging to see that he was able to connect directly to the sensor from the watch with the latest version. Totally agree with you - one of the biggest sources of hope for us in those first few weeks after he was diagnosed was knowing how far the tech had come, and how many huge advancements were in the pipeline.
There is a lot of discussion here about IP theft. Honest question, from deepseek's point of view as a company under a different set of laws than US/Western -- was there IP theft?
A company like OpenAI can put whatever licensing they want in place. But that only matters if they can enforce it. The question is, can they enforce it against deepseek? Did deepseek do something illegal under the laws of their originating country?
I've had some limited exposure to media related licensing when releasing content in China and what is allowed is very different than what is permitted in the US.
The interesting part which points to innovation moving outside of the US is US companies are beholden to strict IP laws while many places in the world don't have such restrictions and will be able to utilize more data more easily.
The most interesting part is that China has been ahead of the US in AI for many years, just not in LLMs.
You need to visit mainland China and see how AI applications are everywhere, from transport to goods shipping.
I'm not surprised at all. I hope this in the end makes the US kill its strict IP laws, which is the problem.
If the US doesn't, China will always have a huge edge on it, no matter how much NVidia hardware the US has.
And you know what, Huawei is already making inference hardware... it won't take them long to finally copy the TSMC tech and flip the situation upside down.
When China can make the equivalent of H100s, it will be hilarious because they will sell for $10 in Aliexpress :-)
You don’t even need to visit china, just read the latest research papers and look at the authors. China has more researchers in AI than the West and that’s a proven way to build an advantage.
It is also funny in a different way. Many people don't realise that they live in some sort of bubble. Many people in "The West" think that they are still the center of the world in everything, while this might not be so correct anymore.
In the U.S. there is 350 million people and EU has 520 million people (excluding Russia and Turkey).
China alone has 1.4 billion people.
Since there is a language barrier and China isolates themselves pretty well from the internet, we forget that there is a huge society with high focus on science. And most of our tech products are coming from there.
My understanding is that not having H100s is irrelevant because most Chinese companies can partner or just own companies in say Australia that can load up on H100s in their data centers in Australia and "rent them out" or offer a service to the Chinese parent company.
Maybe not $10 unless they are loss-leading to dominance. Well they actually could very well do exactly that... Hm, yea, good points. I would expect at least an order or two of magnitude higher to prevent an inferno.
Lets be fair though. Replicating TSMC isn't something that could happen quickly. Then again, who knows how far along they already are...
Debt is a common trope in Korean shows and establishes the characters are destitute and answers why they would become contestants in this show. Then the show creator has the set up that allows them to start poking at class hierarchy.
In asking for a critique of debt in general, you are asking for a different show.
Squid Games is gets a lot of attention from the games and mass deaths of the contestants, but ultimately it is a Korean show using a different "language of film" than international audiences might be used to. Think of how silly a lot of hollywood tropes are if you stand back and look.
Try "My Mister" if you want a different take on a destitute character.
Eating carbohydrates cannot cause Diabetic Ketoacidosis.
Ketoacidosis is caused by not having enough insulin which means glucose can't exit your bloodstream and enter your cells, Your body starts breaking down fat into ketones to provide an energy pathway for your cells that doesn't require insulin. Ketones are acidic and at high enough levels will cause DKA. This can be fatal.
Eating potatoes without corresponding insulin will raise the level of glucose in your bloodstream to high levels. This is not immediately fatal. Having a high average blood glucose level over a long time span (years) will lead to lots of complications including nerve damage, kidney damage, blindness, etc. Obviously this assumes you have the appropriate basal rate of insulin which is separate from eating.
A more accurate way of making your point is that it is difficult to match insulin response times (even with modern fast acting insulin) to certain foods that are absorbed quickly, so eating potatoes may cause a time period may cause a higher post prandial glucose level. The goal of type 1 diabetic therapy is to keep your average glucose levels as close to a normal person's level as possible. So avoiding certain foods (or eating along with protein/fat/fiber) can help achieve lower average blood glucose levels.
Thanks for the clarification, something also often overlooked it how important is mastication, By masticating for a long time, it helps a lot mitigating these peaks as well
I don't know why but that makes me laugh every time. (And I agree w/ The Conversation being underrated)