Jenn Dowling-Medley

I assume these don’t exist anymore but how will the youths be prepared for the club???

It’s at the legion so this reminds me of those weird preteen video dance parties (cursed)

In my haste to find seating that wouldn’t “take” a table I realize I have probably put myself in a high probability of crowd interaction seat (uh oh)

Go to event by self; table seating 🙃

my everest: 7 pm event that is cash only

There are probably some less scrupulous orthopaedic surgeons with a medical tourism angle that would tell such patients that surgery could fix their issue, without talking about the downsides of fusion (which might make their pain and mobility issues worse LT).

When I shadowed a surgeon doing consults in a spine clinic, nearly all the patients he saw were people who were convinced that surgery would fix their problems, which were mostly generalized low back pain without radiological abnormalities. It was tough for them to take that this wasn't the case.

There are absolutely many horrible cases where people with medical issues are denied coverage/out of province care but also if you're a journalist you can't just go on what the patient is saying. This seems more like a situation where there were clinical reasons for not doing it.

> article: woman from BC travels to US because can't get [orthopaedic surgery] in Canada! BC refuses to fund!
> me: they definitely do [orthopaedic surgery] in BC because I seent it
[be honest posh spice meme]

I say that having been a lifeguard in HS - this is a job that people who grew up relatively privileged do (costs lots of money to do the courses) when they want to be something in the healthcare/social work/teaching sphere.

this is why it's important to have experts who have either actually worked behind the scenes at a restaurant or who know people that do

Not so many people who become health professionals had these jobs because statistically they came from more privileged backgrounds (no HS job or fancy one)

People: Montana's has many GF options!
Friend who worked as line cook at Montana's during university: I have no idea what gluten is

Yeah, I think knowing a bit more about the law re: claiming you're a refugee might disabuse people of the idea that you just show up in Canada and get let in.

I think it’s weird to rely on models when you have lots of real world data from places that have been doing this for a while. Also when I lived in Vancouver I had class at 8 am (diabolical UBC move), I often never saw the sun before work.

I issue a blanket apology to all of my successors, knowing that they probably had to do the same 😅

Yeah, lol. It felt like half my work in biomechanics ended being “try to fix/add on to this janky inherited code that may or may not work if you so much as update the computer”

So while Canada is higher trust (good) I do think there is a tendency to believe in mythologies that either deny or excuse certain injustices. This contrast becomes more apparent when you compare something between Canada and the US that is quite similar. Canadians will go into defence mode.

I think it can cut both ways. On one hand, I felt like it was a lower trust society (bad), and that a lot of the mistrust was drawn upon discriminatory lines (very bad). OTOH, it seemed to me like Americans were more committed to seeing flaws and wanting to do something about it.

My takeaway from this is probably a bit different. I noticed while living in the US and also spending a lot of time talking to Americans in the celiac space that Americans are more likely to be self-critical. I don't think this is bad per se, just complicated.

This sounds a bit silly/obvious, but it's not the way people think. We understand instructions in a contextual way on many levels. Thus it can be hard to see how instructions we feel are clear could be misinterpreted in an unexpected way by a machine.

A thing I've always done when trying to debug my code is "pretend you are the computer. You cannot think. You only do exactly what I've told you to do. You draw no inferences and understand no intent."

Could AI be used in a legitimate way to analyze sensor data in an accurate way that is quicker and more reliable than people in real time? Possibly, but if you haven't thought things through, it won't.

this is a good example in the sense that probably part of the problem with the bomb strike was that they were relying on cameras only (see also: Tesla FSD) and not sensors that can capture depth (e.g. Lidar), which in combo with AI can lead to bad results (see Teslas crashing into white objects).

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

"Well nobody knows what I mean if I explain my dietary needs in an accurate way!?"
Holy self fulfilling prophecy batman. Also if they don't know what you mean it's probably not going to be safe/appropriate.

I am convinced that a lot of restaurants with sketchy GF practices are so spectacularly confident because they think that a person would have had an allergic reaction at their premises if they weren't doing things right.

The problem with saying things are allergies when they are not is that it creates risk for people with food allergies. Even with celiac (which is similar in dosing) it's not good because the reaction is delayed (so the harm cuts both ways).

allergy should not be used to be synonymous with "can't have."

If you have celiac, say that. No "gluten allergy" (not a real thing)
If you have an aversion to a food, just say that.

"I am allergic to sugar, can only have X g per serving."

If you are diabetic please just use the correct medical word. Food allergy and grams don't go together!

(America might have other problems, but the celiac mythology that it's a uniquely awful place to be GF is just not borne out by evidence unless you cherry pick studies from before they had GF label laws or consider restaurant studies, where restaurants aren't regulated)