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53 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

like bus routes?

 

but less socialism and public funds to grift to something else 

 

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11 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

And without stabbings.

But now with more sexual assaults and drivers with DUIs 

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On 5/9/2025 at 6:32 PM, Brisketexan said:

"The generative AI tools allow FDA scientists and subject-matter experts to spend less time on tedious, repetitive tasks that often slow down the review process."

 

You know.....tasks like verifying the accuracy and sourcing of data, shit like that.

Maybe AI will be better at statistical analysis than the frustrated scientist lifers at FDA so Phase II and III clinical trials could require fewer subjects or shorter time points, thus less expense and time to market.

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9 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Maybe AI will be better at statistical analysis than the frustrated scientist lifers at FDA so Phase II and III clinical trials could require fewer subjects or shorter time points, thus less expense and time to market.

 

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And they'll still at least double the price.

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17 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Maybe AI will be better at statistical analysis than the frustrated scientist lifers at FDA so Phase II and III clinical trials could require fewer subjects or shorter time points, thus less expense and time to market.

How that will work...

Pharmaceutical executive, who likely also happens to be embedded in the current presidential administration: "We ran our new drug, HelpsIngrownToenailsButMakesYourDickFallOff, through an AI trial, and it came out just fine and practically no imaginary test subject's dick fell off.  You can trust us, and our AI engine, the Aways-Approve-o-Max 5000."

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

How that will work...

Pharmaceutical executive, who likely also happens to be embedded in the current presidential administration: "We ran our new drug, HelpsIngrownToenailsButMakesYourDickFallOff, through an AI trial, and it came out just fine and practically no imaginary test subject's dick fell off.  You can trust us, and our AI engine, the Aways-Approve-o-Max 5000."

I believe I understand your viewpoint on most issues in 2025. I've shared on other FDA and UHC related threads that I have a good deal of experience getting medical devices cleared by FDA. It is very frustrating and not efficient. A typical FDA review panel assigned to a new product submission is composed of a manager (usually 5-10 years experience but looking to escape to pharma/med device as a VP of Regulatory), a couple senior reviewers (30-65 yo lifers that got hired by FDA out of school and never left for whatever reason), and a couple junior scientists (the new hires with <5 years experience). Rarely do any of them have industry experience or perspective. They lean hard on testing precedent when it's outdated, but also apply new (more difficult to pass) standards on new products. What's worse is they keep products on the market that were previously approved under old standards and permit companies with old products to piggy back approvals of their products under the old standards. The FDA reviewers consider themselves thoughtful scientists, and often ask for additional studies, experiments, and data that are irrelevant to the product approval or indicated uses. In almost every product submission, there has been a negotiation on sample size and time duration because the FDA has no concern over a product's need on the market or the R&D expenses required for their additional asks. Brisket and thunderlounge took my post as naively supporting big pharma, when the current system favors big pharma over the startups and small companies.

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18 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

I believe I understand your viewpoint on most issues in 2025. I've shared on other FDA and UHC related threads that I have a good deal of experience getting medical devices cleared by FDA. It is very frustrating and not efficient. A typical FDA review panel assigned to a new product submission is composed of a manager (usually 5-10 years experience but looking to escape to pharma/med device as a VP of Regulatory), a couple senior reviewers (30-65 yo lifers that got hired by FDA out of school and never left for whatever reason), and a couple junior scientists (the new hires with <5 years experience). Rarely do any of them have industry experience or perspective. They lean hard on testing precedent when it's outdated, but also apply new (more difficult to pass) standards on new products. What's worse is they keep products on the market that were previously approved under old standards and permit companies with old products to piggy back approvals of their products under the old standards. The FDA reviewers consider themselves thoughtful scientists, and often ask for additional studies, experiments, and data that are irrelevant to the product approval or indicated uses. In almost every product submission, there has been a negotiation on sample size and time duration because the FDA has no concern over a product's need on the market or the R&D expenses required for their additional asks. Brisket and thunderlounge took my post as naively supporting big pharma, when the current system favors big pharma over the startups and small companies.

I believe you - truly, I do.  I have navigated more than a few inefficient/ineffective bureaucratic systems in my day (for myself and for clients).

My stand here is a direct one, and is consistent with one I took long ago in opposing a light rail proposal in Austin that would have (and eventually did) put the program under CapMetro's control: I don't oppose the concept, and agree there is a need for (better transit operations, a better system at FDA, what have you)....I just oppose 100% any plan to put these people in charge of doing it.

Any actions taken by this regime in this field will serve one purpose, and one purpose only: faster and easier funneling of dollars to billionaires.  And the other side of that coin is just as true: that will always come at the expense of everyone else, including smaller enterprises, consumer/patient safety, and the like.

You know it's true.  Any "improvement" will be incidental, confined to small parts of the process, and will be dwarfed by the bigger mission of "complete regulatory capture performed on behalf of the oligarchs who own the regime."

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

How that will work...

Pharmaceutical executive, who likely also happens to be embedded in the current presidential administration: "We ran our new drug, HelpsIngrownToenailsButMakesYourDickFallOff, through an AI trial, and it came out just fine and practically no imaginary test subject's dick fell off.  You can trust us, and our AI engine, the Aways-Approve-o-Max 5000."

The best part is you then have ChatGPT just change all the zeroes to ones, and "wallah," I present to the C-suite the "UnitedHealth Never-Authorize-O-Min (-)5000."

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Maybe not an "Enshittening" but definitely something that felt weird:

Went for visit to optometrist, they do the pretest stuff with the assistant, then I go in the exam room and the doc patches in via zoom/teams/ or  cc program and conducts things.  I don't care because I just want my script, but it did surprise me.  Seems like it might help with true but minor medical issues as well, while also limiting docs' exposure to germs in a MD office.  I could also see it as a huge help on access for rural/ remote patients.

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1 hour ago, Murfdogg21 said:

Maybe AI will be better at statistical analysis than the frustrated scientist lifers at FDA so Phase II and III clinical trials could require fewer subjects or shorter time points, thus less expense and time to market.

If it takes ana’s job away, I’ll consider it a win.

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16 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

This is a great article that even talks about edge-hosted LLM models like what you might run on your cell phone, laptop, or desktop PC.

Llama3.1 8B (8 billion parameters) only pulled 114 joules to generate a response - for comparison that's 1/10th of a second of your microwave running.
Llama3.1 405B (405 billion parameters) pulled 6706 joules to generate a response - about 8 seconds of a microwave running.

Image generating models use about 1/3rd energy as much as text models, and video generating models use about twice as much energy as text models.

 

The devil in those details though, is that you often will make many queries to come to your conclusion. The article has a great breakdown of how much juice you'd use to brainstorm some marketing ideas, generate videos and images, and it comes out to around 3 and a half hours of running your microwave.

Every time google search results generate a summary of your search, it's a bite of energy. Scaled across billions of queries per hour. And it's something that everyone hates!

 

I do think there's value in locally hosted models doing work acceleration for you, but cloud providers spinning up huge datacenters to power features that nobody wants is pretty dogshit. Not to mention, those DC's are mostly powered by natgas and belching a shitton of carbon emissions for no meaningful value.

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22 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

 

I think I'll pick up a copy of "The Last White Farmer" by Anders VanderPloot, the harrowing story of a family of Afrikaner famers in South Africa who have their land seized their lives threatened by savages, only to find redemption and safety when they are allowed to buy a small farm in Ohio. 

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So my imaginary friends at Surly will all be replaced by AI?  I see that as a net positive, but what if AI does not like me either?

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Posted
2 hours ago, Iceman said:

So my imaginary friends at Surly will all be replaced by AI?  I see that as a net positive, but what if AI does not like me either?

And what kinda twisted shit will we see in NSAA?

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20 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

I get these texts a couple times a week.  Just one more thing that could be easily stopped but isn’t because it’s more profitable to let people get scammed. 
 

An unappreciated part of the scam industry: how extensive outsourcing of customer service and IT primed the pump. It conditioned Americans to be unfazed when the customer service reps of major American companies were located outside of America and speaking barely comprehensible English. And it taught huge swathes of South Asians exactly how to pose as a legit CSR. 

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

legit CSR. 

not really.

and fuck any call not in my contacts list.  The scammers never leave a message.

If it's a text.  Fuck em.  People who NEED to ge a hold of me, can do so.  If it's a legit customer, they'll leave a message.

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They get close enough to fool the elderly, which we all will be. In any case the constant barrage of foreigners trying to scam us is for sure part of the enshitiffcation of American life. We used to be able to just answer phones. Living in Central Europe drove it home, no one else speaks the languages so no scam bullshit. Slaps you in the face back home. 

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27 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Living in Central Europe drove it home, no one else speaks the languages so no scam bullshit. Slaps you in the face back home. 

 

Right along with all the fucking prescription drug commercials. 

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15 minutes ago, pacman said:

Bezos' fiance following the enshitification trend

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Seriously....WTF is fucking wrong with these people?  What sane human looks at the image on the right and says "that...THAT is what I want?"  These shitsticks have a warped sense of reality across the board.  They have no fucking business telling humanity how shit should be, being that they think that we should pair off with gold digging manufactured cartoon characters.

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22 minutes ago, Captainant said:

I gotta say, naming your mass surveillance company "Palantir" is just a little too on the nose

Lazy writers

Posted
2 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Suzy Weiss: It’s Over for Anthony Bourdain’s Fanboys

Didn't know where else to put this, didn't want to start a new thread in F&T. Bari Weiss has a younger sister who is, predictably, just as big of a stupid cunt as she is with one of the worst takes of all time.

Ain't gonna sign up for that site.  Copy and paste the gist, por favor.

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