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Mashup Score: 1The new Apple Vision Pro immersive video is fine - 1 month(s) ago
Both Ben Thompson and Jason Snell had reservations about Apple’s only immersive video to come out since Vision Pro came out. It is a 5-minute highlight reel of the Major League Soccer Cup and after seeing it myself I kind of disagree with both of them. The video is fine! There are some limitations of the technology: you can’t have the camera panning around the pitch so you have to be in a fixed position, and a soccer pitch is so vast that there is no way to watch a game from the same spot while being close to the action, while at the same time being close to the action is the whole point of immersion.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 1📺 3 Body Problem - 1 month(s) ago
📺 3 Body Problem (The Netflix version) was a great introduction to the topic for my non-science-fiction-reading spouse, but of course couldn’t even begin to approach the depth of the original. Some unordered observations: The first season of the show encompasses the entire first book and a part of the second. I didn’t mind that as much as I thought I would, though huge chunks of the parts I liked were cut out.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0📚 Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport - 2 month(s) ago
Slow Productivity is a book that could easily have been a blog post but the three sub-heading of that hypothetical post are sound and worth adopting. They could also fit on a fortune cookie: Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. These are as obvious as they are short. Of course, you don’t need a book to learn and understand them — it’s enough to see what people who do great things are doing themselves, like Nassim Taleb, or Stephen Wolfram, or any good writer who writes their own books.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Can someone with connections please forward this to HBO? - 2 month(s) ago
Prompt: “Give me an elevator pitch for a TV show called Stakeholders, a corporate dramedy with vampires.” ChatGPT-4: “Stakeholders” is a cutting-edge corporate dramedy that intertwines the cutthroat world of business with the dark, secretive existence of vampires, offering a unique twist on the workplace drama. In the bustling metropolis of New York City, a prestigious investment firm, Bloodline Capital, serves as the battleground for power, ambition, and survival. The catch?
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Miloš Miljković - 2 month(s) ago
This morning I learned that one of the many plot lines in the British TV show Bodies has been lifted from real life: The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that captivated Victorian England in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by a man sometimes referred to as Thomas Castro or as Arthur Orton, but usually termed “the Claimant”, to be the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 1The low-hanging fruit of medicine - 2 month(s) ago
The Medical Journal of Record The New York Times. The link is to a gift article. has an excellent story on Kawasaki disease out today which reminded me of Balkan endemic nephropathy, another rare disease with an unusual and infectious disease-like distribution. ⊕ Note that prevalence and distribution are where the similarities end. Kawasaki disease is a vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) that affects children and young adults.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 3On Journalist Science - 2 month(s) ago
Among many consequences of covid-19, there rise and fall of Citizen Science has been one of the more amusing ones to watch. It has fallen from grace significantly since its 2020 peak, when everyone was an expert on cloth versus surgical versus N95 masks and “did their on research” on which one was best for them. As with any progressive idea, it soon became adopted by the other end of the American political spectrum who “did their own research” on vaccines and genomic integration of mRNA.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Miloš Miljković - 2 month(s) ago
📺 Beckham (2023) seems to have had full access to David and Victoria. It may have paid for that access by painting too rosy of a picture of the couple. But that’s OK! I have new respect for both realizing how young they were when they had their family photos plastered all over tabloids, and how dedicated David Beckham was to football and family — in that order. Most of all, how dedicated his parents were to his career, which is all the more poignant when you realize, in the last few moments of the last episode, that he could not show the same dedication to his own children.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 3There is at least one good reason to use AVP in public; alas, even I am too self-concious to do it - 3 month(s) ago
I am attending a medical conference in Valencia, Spain this week — more thoughts on being back in Europe after 7 years coming up — and all I could think about while sitting in the auditorium, looking at slides and listening to the speakers was that these kinds of events would be the perfect use case for AVP. The congress center in Valencia is top-notch, with comfortable seats and plenty of leg room.
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Apple Vision Pro and productivity, one week in - 3 month(s) ago
AVP’s use as a personal entertainment device in unquestionable, and I look forward to catching up on many movies, TV shows and PS5 games in which no one else in the family has shown any interest. That alone is sufficient reason not to return it. But why I bought it in the first place was to do work while traveling, and even though there are signigificant and valid concerns about its use as a “productivity device” — the quotes are there because I have developed an aversion to productivity as a concept — I think I will be able to deal with the many tradeoffs, some of which are:
Source: blog.miljko.orgCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
I don't care how immersive a video of a baseball game can be on Apple Vision Pro, I would still fall asleep. https://t.co/J6FUQJxu6T