Michael J. Doyle

Research Scientist at Intel Corporation. Opinions are my own.

[Michael J. Doyle @mjdoyle0]

@TylerSbrt @midjourney This is the bottom line.

[Tyler Seibert MD PhD @TylerSbrt]

Lots of engineer vs doctor debates around @midjourney and whole-body scans.

I am an engineer, imaging scientist, and MD oncologist writing screening guidelines.

What if instead of guessing/arguing, we just limited use to RCTs and figured out together how/whether this works?

[MT @MT_6226]

If you (as a doctor) ignore it, it takes literally one finding that turned out cancerous (or otherwise problematic) to end your career.

If you propose to overturn the entire system of American legal liability, medical boards, and institutional practices…yeah good luck buddy.

[SecondAccount @SecondA16110022]

You can either have a highly-rational system where any low-probability, high-consequence uncertain finding has no downsides because it is just additional information, or you can have a highly-adversarial medical system where malpractice claims are settled by jury.

I don’t think you can have both.

[Michael J. Doyle @mjdoyle0]

@MT_6226 As a CS/tech person myself, this kind of rigid, ideal, mathematical thinking is typical of the profession. CS people often (not always of course) have a mental model that ignores statistical/probablistic thinking and also ignores the real world as a hyper-complex, fuzzy system.

[The mood doctor @Chulbulpanda420]

An Ideal Doctor—
Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Call him anytime -day or night. Send WhatsApp messages, reports, photos he should reply instantly.
Whenever you need him, whether it’s 5 a.m. or Diwali night, he must be available for treatment.
Every treatment he gives must be 100% accurate.
No disease should be missed.
No complications should ever occur.
Even the laws of nature should not apply to him.
OPD consultation fee should be almost nothing.
After all, we’re “just talking,” so why should there be any fee?
If admitted to the hospital, he should give huge discounts on operation charges,
so we can afford a Deluxe Room and order whatever we want from the canteen or Zomato for a party.
He should prescribe medicines that are easily available everywhere,
and one prescription should last for 4 years — no need for follow-ups, tests, or re-evaluations.
He should consider accepting even a single pen from a pharma company as a sin,
but somehow he must automatically stay updated with all the latest, most expensive, and most effective new medicines.
He must keep studying continuously,
attend conferences and CMEs regularly,
but his clinic should never be closed.
He should have the latest machines, state-of-the-art operation theatres, and the best staff,
but the treatment cost should be like that of a government hospital.
He must personally see every report,
give every patient enough time,
but we should never have to wait when our turn comes in OPD.
He should be available on phone, WhatsApp, video call, messages, and email on every platform,but should never expect that his time also has any value.
We should be able to question him on every piece of advice we get from Google, YouTube, neighbours, relatives, or social media,
but he should never feel bad about it.
He should have 15–20 years of education and experience,
but readily accept defeat in front of our 15-minute internet research.
His hospital should have five-star hotel-like facilities,
but when we see the bill, it should feel like government rates.
He should treat every patient like his own family,
but his own family should be used to the fact that the doctor stays more in the hospital than at home.

He should have no personal life.
No holidays.
No festivals.
No illness.
No tiredness.
And most importantly —
If everything goes well, it is God’s grace.
And if anything goes wrong,
it is only the doctor’s fault.

Because in the eyes of the public, an ideal doctor is someone who:
Carries the responsibility of God,
possesses the honesty of a saint,
and gives the availability of a machine.
Are you an ideal doctor?

[Michael J. Doyle @mjdoyle0]

@byersblake In theory more info is best. But there is a finite number of MDs with finite time. MDs don't just treat you, they treat a population. Their job is to max the health of that pop. overall. Following up on every little benign quirk of each patient lessens the good they can do.

[i/o @avidseries]

If you think that the most replicable major area in research psychology — and also the one with some of the largest effect sizes in the discipline — is invalid, you're proving you're an idiot who has done zero research about it.

Steven Pinker: "The research replicability crisis in psychology doesn't apply to IQ research — these studies have huge sample sizes and replicable results. But people hate the message."

[gojimmypi @gojimmypi]

My @tinytapeout project has grown a little!

Now using 2/3 of a 1x2 tile chip. 52,571 um wire length.

UART, SPI, TRNG working on the #ULX3S. JTAG still WIP.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Time to get that volcano lair I’ve always wanted.

I think it’s in the “Beyond” section of BB&B.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

The left’s favorite fallacy: They claim right-wingers ‘use’ attacks like this to further our own ends. No. It’s because of attacks like these, that we ARE right-wing. The idea that we are secretly glad it’s happening so we can “further our agenda” is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. We want this to stop. We want our people to be safe. And it’s because of leftist policies that they are not.

[Modern History @modernhistory]

Steven Spielberg directed this insane thriller at just 24 years old

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell turns 96 this month.

It’s time to award Sowell the Presidential Medal of Freedom—a fitting tribute to one of America’s greatest champions of freedom! 💪

@WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

The reason this meme resonates with me is that it captures a common tactic in public democrat debate. Someone points to a broad trend and instead of discussing whether the trend is real, the conversation immediately shifts to an exception.

Mention fatherlessness and someone brings up a successful person raised without a father. Mention failing schools and someone points to a student who excelled. Mention crime and someone finds a neighborhood that remains safe. The exception is treated as though it disproves the pattern.

The problem is that exceptions do not erase trends. Nobody is claiming every circle is red.

They will call me a outlier... An exception.... an anomaly.

The point is that when most of the circles are red, focusing exclusively on the blue one prevents an honest discussion about what the overall picture actually shows. Serious analysis begins with patterns, not exceptions.

That is why so many conversations about public democrat policy go nowhere. Instead of asking why a problem exists, people spend all their energy trying to prove the problem doesn’t exist because they found a single exception.

Reality doesn’t work that way. If most of the circles are red, then the responsible thing to do is explain why.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Sagar @Sagar_kr_Maity]

Imagine writing a PhD thesis so foundational that the title is literally just the name of the entire field of study.

​Paul Dirac, 1926: "Quantum Mechanics."

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

The 1990’s were amazing. They just don’t make movie scenes this perfect any more.

[Michael J. Doyle @mjdoyle0]

@ankkala Good question! So current ray tracing technology (BVH trees), are simply an alternative to BSP that gathered momentum due to dynamic content. It's all basically the same idea, sort space into measurable regions to make rendering more efficient.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Steven Spielberg was just 24 when he directed the pilot of COLUMBO, but he was already showing serious visual storytelling chops: the opening shot glides in from the murderer approaching to the victim in one move.

[Pixel Cherry Ninja @PixelCNinja]

Perfect Dark (2000) on Nintendo 64 by Rare pushed the system to its limits with advanced AI bots, deep multiplayer options, and a sci-fi story. It built on GoldenEye’s formula but added more custom matches, co-op missions, and counter-op, making it one of the most feature-rich shooters of its time.

[Michael J. Doyle @mjdoyle0]

@AdrianneCurry @DesireeAmerica4 Yep, because that's how you avoid a manslaughter charge when his head doesn't doesn't hit the concrete from 10ft.