Dr Nick

Surgeon, Author, Old Rusty Sports Cars, $potato and $kishu billionaire

[Day @Daywrotethis]

"The human who never goes a little crazy on purpose goes all the way crazy by accident."

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@changingdata @BowTiedBull Also why I’m waiting to upgrade my boat

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@Rob_Smithers @DrDiGiorgio What’s that Orwell quote about the most bigoted adherents…

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@DrDeepMD Throw in free care / screening for the needy and some billionaire will surely sponsor this

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@FuhrerElonMusk @NeilFlochMD You realize it’s the hospital billing that, right? And it still would. They’d just save the $500 they pay the surgeon. But still bill you $125,000.

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@DutchRojas @DrRyanPDaly Probably drive cost way down

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@EconBerger @devahaz That’s funny

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@Liamjsm It’s not the money. It’s the dramatic loss of respect, autonomy, authority. Sold out by the generations before. Held to the old standards. The money doesn’t make up for the pain anymore so everyone wants more.

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@brent64624136 @ChristinaPushaw Prices for what? A hospitals “bills” $125,000 for an appendectomy. Surgeon gets $550. So is the check for $6250 or 27.50? And who is it made out to? (I don’t think you’re wrong btw but it’s confusing)

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@abc12312553551 @rbarbosa91 I can’t tell if this is satire.

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@BowTiedBull I don’t know..I live in a rich area- see a lot of Ferraris, Lambos, Astons, Rolls, etc. They probably have a Toyota too, at their 3rd house. Look at cars of Palm Beach on IG

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@DrDiGiorgio Once went to one of these to proctor some surgeons. Two cases. The first (20 mins case) took until noon. Then we walked across campus, got in a car, drove downtown for lunch at a Mexican place. Eventually went back and they still weren’t ready. Finished at 7pm.

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@AlpacaAurelius Why did they schedule that in Hawaii 😂

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@GatewayCortex @MarketPalmer_ This. Plus divorce.

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@TigersJUK Yeah the mating dance part had me laughing

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@estherkhaddad @aakashgupta The fact that someone would write “simple hiatal hernia surgery” and believe it just goes to show how amazingly safe medicine has become.

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@georgetolisjr This is definitely true, but my research year and extra degree haven’t hurt me at all. I honestly think it is part of why I’ve climbed the local leadership ladder, and why consulting opportunities arise. I can sort of straddle the two (a bit)

[CG @cgtwts]

Let me explain what just happened, because I don’t think people realize how INSANE this is.

> Cortical Labs put 200,000 real human brain cells onto a silicon chip and trained them to play Doom in just one week.

> Each CL1 system costs $35,000.

> A rack of 30 units consumes only 850–1,000 watts combined.

> The human brain operates on 20 watts.

> Large AI training clusters burn through megawatts.

>Backed by In-Q-Tel.
115 units began shipping in 2025.

> Cortical Labs is selling “Wetware as a Service” through Cortical Cloud, letting developers deploy code remotely to living human neurons with no lab required,

> priced like a software subscription but powered by real brain cells grown from adult skin and blood samples.

> it isn’t about gaming, it’s about biological computing that could eventually outperform traditional silicon in energy efficiency and adaptability.

This is getting really scary and we’re still at the very beginning.

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@zeta_globin Everyone is beating on you for the stats issues, but I do agree that some things we consider abnormal or a sign of something is going to turn out to be wrong when the AI gets smart enough to figure it out.