u/Brill45

Japan’s football J. League has kicked off their collaboration with Pokémon, assigning a mascot to 60 teams

From IGN: “The featured Pokémon were picked to match each of Japan’s pro soccer teams. For example, Roasso Kumamoto is getting Ponyta as its partner Pokémon, which matches up with the club’s horse logo and mascot. Akita Blaublitz gets seahorse Pokémon Horsea, which as Pokémon fans will know, has Water/Dragon-type Pokémon Kingdra as its final form. This meshes with Blaublitz’s mascot, which is a blue dragon called Blaugon.”

u/Brill45 — 14 hours ago

▲ 3 r/Residency

Worth paying AOA dues while looking for jobs? (rads)

(Alpha Omega Alpha)

Inducted in med school and subsequently never renewed and let my active membership lapse years ago. I’m a new body rads fellow so I’m starting to look for jobs. Looking mainly private practice and open to hospital employed/community. Not keen on academia unless a really good gig comes by.

It’s been 4 years since I’ve been inducted so it looks like the resident due rates have expired for me (despite still technically being in training). Any real advantage in paying the full price for a year just to say I’m an active member when appplying for attending jobs?

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u/Brill45 — 5 days ago

▲ 2 r/GuildWars

How to auto-attack on mobile?

So I decided to make a dervish melandru’s accord character on mobile for my foray back into this game after a decade. I realize that I am just unable to auto-attack any enemies (to start off an encounter). I have to be close to one and use a skill to actually aggro one, and then my toon continues to auto attack, but I can’t just press that target button on the screen to *begin* an attack an enemy, as I thought it would allow me to do.
Any solutions?

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u/Brill45 — 8 days ago

▲ 165 r/Radiology

From the Midjourney medical website/blog. I guess you can just put a colored label where things are supposed to be and convince people your fancy new tech can actually see it.

I mean, yes you can make out some of the larger organs but I would really love to hear a convincing argument about how sensitive this whole body US tomography is for catching any real pathology.

And they’ve clearly figured out the secret to get clients: more labels = better. Except that it’s mostly just a bunch of labeled muscles. I’m ignoring that they’ve switched the conventional left-right orientation.

I looked into it, and it seems like there is actually some published work on whole body US tomography, so it’s not (entirely) fake:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11275691/

To be crass, the actual images of this application look pretty dogshit for any real clinical utility when compared to its more conventional alternatives, but still admittedly better than I would’ve expected. In all fairness the authors assert these specific applications for this technology:
“First, we readily observe subcutaneous and preperitoneal abdominal adipose distributions in our images, enabling adipose thickness assessment over the body without ionizing radiation or mechanical deformation. Second, we demonstrate an approach for rapid (seven frame-per-second) biopsy needle localization with respect to internal tissue features. “

u/Brill45 — 18 days ago

▲ 8 r/scifi

Works that fundamentally changed or challenged the way you think?

I’ve always felt that many mainstream sci fi works depict intelligent alien life with a human frame of mind, for good reason as it makes for some amazing stories.
In my mind, I’ve imagined that if we ever do get in contact with an intelligent extra-terrestrial civilization, it wouldn’t just be communication that would be the major barrier. Concepts like motivation, love, conflict, friendship may have vastly different meanings or understanding. Or that the way they think is just fundamentally different.

Are there any works that you would recommend that explore similar ideas and concepts? Something that blew your mind?
Hoping for a book recommendation as I need something good to read after Children of Time, but I will never turn down a great film or tv series.

I’ve read Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (and of course seen Arrival) and thought it was fantastic (wish it was a whole novel tbh) but haven’t read a ton of other sci fi works.

Edit: also it doesn’t necessarily only has to include alien life. If there are any works that explore these concepts with AI or an artificial superintelligence, I would be open to that too

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u/Brill45 — 19 days ago

▲ 4 r/sciencefiction

Works that fundamentally changed or challenged the way you think?

I’ve read Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang (and of course seen Arrival) and thought it was fantastic (wish it was a whole novel tbh) but haven’t read a ton of other sci fi works.

Edit: also it doesn’t necessarily only has to include alien life. If there are any works that explore these concepts with AI or an artificial superintelligence, I would be open to that too

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u/Brill45 — 19 days ago

▲ 250 r/Radiology

Right neck pain for several weeks

Middle age woman with right neck pain and numbness radiating down to the right shoulder which started spontaneously. A week after the pain started, she went to the chiropractor for manipulation, which reportedly resulted in relief for a day only for the symptoms to return.

Findings:

Images 1-2: CTA of the neck demonstrates severe narrowing of a short segment of the right cervical vertebral artery V2 segment with threadlike residual opacification. No significant atherosclerotic disease was noted in her vessels elsewhere.

Image 3: T1 FS MR images of the neck (done as part of the MRA Carotid exam) demonstrates circumferential/slightly crescentic hyperintense signal involving the narrowed segment of the right cervical vertebral artery. The MRA vessel imaging showed similar threadlike signal in that portion.

Diagnosis: Right extracranial vertebral artery dissection.

The MR images nicely show the arterial intramural hematoma as hyperintense signal on the T1 weighted sequence.

Notes in her chart further clarify that the patient’s initial symptoms were associated with some pleuritic chest pain and URI symptoms, for which she sought chiropractic evaluation. After manipulation, she subsequently developed right shoulder numbness and tingling, suggesting the dissection was most likely triggered by the chiropractic adjustment.

u/Brill45 — 2 months ago

▲ 651 r/WatchesCirclejerk

When you couldn’t acquire the watch but refuse to leave empty handed

Desperation has no limits.

u/Brill45 — 2 months ago

Japan’s football J. League has kicked off their collaboration with Pokémon, assigning a mascot to 60 teams

Worth paying AOA dues while looking for jobs? (rads)

How to auto-attack on mobile?

From the Midjourney medical website/blog. I guess you can just put a colored label where things are *supposed* to be and convince people your fancy new tech can actually see it.

Works that fundamentally changed or challenged the way you think?

Works that fundamentally changed or challenged the way you think?

Right neck pain for several weeks

When you couldn’t acquire the watch but refuse to leave empty handed

From the Midjourney medical website/blog. I guess you can just put a colored label where things are supposed to be and convince people your fancy new tech can actually see it.