One further thing - the article doesn’t talk much about the physical response to wearing a CGM such as the extreme skin irritation some people get from the adhesive. Or the fact that the CGM reading could be way off the reading you get from a finger prick test - which can in turn vary significantly from a lab test result!
I did the test once with most meters I still had laying around: ballpark correct but according to them my blood sugar level was between 3.8 and about 7 mmol/l. I have one which is very finacky in the 4.0 and lower range which is annoying if you want to know if it really starting hypoglycemia or you are just tired.
I’m T1 and I use the G6. I used to regularly check against a glucometer multiple times a day (without calibrating) to check accuracy, and found no issues. A blanket statement such as “the Dexcom G6 is inaccurate in a harmful way” is certainly not true in general, even if true for you.
For disposing of lances - if you're in San Francisco at least, Walgreens provide a free sharps disposal service. They provide a sharps container at no cost, and will take in your full (used) sharps containers.
I’m T1 diabetic and use my watch for monitoring my glucose levels. I wear it 100% of the time, aside from showering when it charges. Charging quickly and having a minimum of 24hrs of charge is really important to me. Apple Watch hits both of those.
Do you have a separate accessory for monitoring glucose? I'm really looking forward to the Series 7 which is rumoured to have blood glucose monitoring.
Yes, I use a Dexcom G6. If the rumors of the Series 7 having a glucose monitor and a blood pressure monitor on it are true, that would be incredible. They’re surely working on core body temperature monitoring too!
I assumed they meant that the additives made it difficult to detect that the milk had gone off and so it was easier to get sick from it.
To you point however, I don't understand how that could have increased the transmission of TB as that is caused by cows infected with Bovine TB and (AFAIK) that can't simply be detected by taste or smell.
Watching the video, it seems they assumed TB grew in milk, but according to growth requirements[1], it seems unlikely, and an unwarranted conclusion.
Still, it seems boric acid could have caused irritation, directly helping TB infect people. Also it reduced acidification, which would change bacterial population (for better or worse), and increasing bacterial loads of "spoiled" milk could weaken human defences, or not ..
I wouldn't blame Bovine TB on boric acid added to milk without further study.
For example, Rubella is a vaccine commonly given to kids, but it is isn't really a severe disease even if kids catch it. If a pregnant woman contracts Rubella in her first trimester however, it can lead to severe complications for the unborn child. Just vaccinating women of child bearing age against Rubella works a little, but vaccinating kids as well means that that transmission vector is removed, and really improves the overall outcome.
your faulty line of logic, that you can’t both serve an individual and a group, just condemned most vaccines. Why bother giving kids a chicken pox vaccine when the infection is usually mild for them. Or from the GP, why give them rubella vaccine when it mainly hurts pregnant women.
I think the big argument here is: Is doling out medical advice to an individual to protect the group ethical? Or should the medical advice for the individual be directed at the potential outcomes for the individual.
This conversation of individual vs communal rights is much simpler when we tell smokers they should keep it to designated areas or their private property.
It's a bit of a different animal when we're essentially encouraging and coercing people into taking potentially unnecessary medication for OTHER people's benefit.
It's not an easy question, if you're being intellectually honest. People who are hardliners on one side or the other on this debate, i feel aren't honest about the problems this poses. They're so wrapped up in their side of the individualism/tribialism or collective-safety/freedom dynamic, that they're not giving the other side a fair look.
This is a problem that plague the human species. Our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses. Both our nature as collective/tribal animals, but with a deep since of contradictory individualism leads us to success and survival and wellness, but both of those aspects of us lead to great tyranny.
it's the communism vs capitalism debate - both sides have tons of blood on their hands. Tons of oppression too.
It's the debate played out between Kirk and Spock about the needs of the one vs the many.
And it's an honest, real debate that i don't feel will ever be solved because of the myriad of ways it plays out in a complex society.
It's entirely feasible that you don't need ridiculous amounts of data to generate an AI - that's just the approach being taken by the vast majority of research teams.
Modern machine-learning/deep-learning takes a bunch of data and uses high-dimension, more-or-less brute-force methods to approximate that data with a curve. It works good often (seldom works "great" 'cause the data can't fully capture the situation).
The appealing thing about this is the programmer doesn't have to understand anything. If you have little data, approximation just isn't going to capture the situation. Either the programmer gets an understanding of the system (extremely costs and time-consuming) or we create systems that are themselves capable of this understanding. But no one knows how to do this, all the "artificial intelligence" victories anyone has observed have come from throwing computing power at a problem. Maybe someone will figure out how to throw computing power at the general problem of understanding but I'm doubtful.
That's totally fair. I'm not a AI researcher. From what I've heard from internal folks. A new competitor might be able to compete on one or two models to create some niche, but not in the entire market. The market is big enough that the competitors can still be viable companies, but we are not resting on our laurels either, so it'll be interesting to see.
