This makes me think of how in normal society there are a variety of expensive-to-verify tasks that have their quality/correctness guaranteed by the threat of reputational damage, or even malpractice/liability lawsuits.
Say a civil engineer submits a design for a bridge, and then it collapses on day #2 after the expensive construction is complete. Even if he can't get sued to cover the construction company's loss, he'll have trouble finding work afterwards.
But with internet bounties, generally people aren't laying their expertise and credibility on the line with their suggestions, so there isn't much of an incentive to hold back from offering dubious solutions.
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AI noise removal is still not that good
I end up with a lot of super-noisy photos because I do social dance photography. The light in the room is dim, and I need a fast shutter speed because people are moving quickly, so I'm letting in even less light. This is terrible for noise.
Unfortunately, it seems that the best AI noise removal tools are still not that good! I am surprised.
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I hear good things about Lightroom's denoise - do you have a way you could try that? The random online tools are often pretty far behind state of the art, if that's what you've tried so far.
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Oh cool! I can try Lightroom and this DxO thing (haven't heard of it). I think I may have already tried Photoshop's denoise feature -- maybe that's the same as whatever Lightroom is doing.
Topaz was what I tried in the screenshot. It seemed like it was supposed to be one of the best options, but I'm glad that top comment says it's actually far behind others
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I just played Duck Detective and I have a complaint
I am confused that it is SO well-rated. Like, it's 10/10 on Steam? The motivation behind the central crime doesn't really make sense and is barely explained. It's cute in a bunch of ways, but writing reasonable character motivations feels like a "bare minimum" thing for me. (At least in this kind of game, where you're supposed to deduce who did what and why.)
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I did a dance shoot on Friday
Check out this edit I did. The more colorful one is the "after." It's more colorful than what it was like to really be there -- but the less colorful one also isn't what it looked like to really be there. It was so dim!
This kind of choice feels salient during photography post-processing. Should I make it look like how it looked to be there? Or how it FELT to be there? Or should I just do something cool?
The ideal probably depends on the purpose of the shoot. (Is it to remember a wonderful event? Is it to create a piece of art? Is it to give people photos to use for dating apps?)
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Yeah that would be nice! Partly because it sounds nice to give people a better idea of what goes into a pretty photo -- a lot of the labor is invisible. (Sometimes people just tell me "wow you have a really good camera" when they see my photos.)
But also because there's a big difference between what is optimal for aesthetics and what is optimal for accurate-information-sharing, and I'm disappointed about how much art distorts people's beliefs
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in reply to kip • • •Hi, apologies for dropping by on a post about something pretty personal as a stranger, but as someone who's both suffered from fairly traumatic healthcare stuff _and_ got friends working in nursing and midwifery, I had some thoughts on this.
I would guess that it's much more common for doctors to have time built in to their schedule and specific training to talk to patients, and from hearing nurses talk about their training, I don't think either of those things is commonly true. Nurses are given procedures to follow and have limited context for them. Doctors on leave are often replaced (in the UK at least) from a pool of extra-well-paid "locum" consultants, whereas nurses are relatively often chronically understaffed or borrowed from other areas of a hospital and practice where they might not have equivalent training.
A midwife friend told me that in midwifery there was a very strong trend to medicalise childbirth as a procedure (more caesareans amongst other interventions) and then a pushback against that as research and community knowledge said "no actually, mothers'
... show moreHi, apologies for dropping by on a post about something pretty personal as a stranger, but as someone who's both suffered from fairly traumatic healthcare stuff _and_ got friends working in nursing and midwifery, I had some thoughts on this.
I would guess that it's much more common for doctors to have time built in to their schedule and specific training to talk to patients, and from hearing nurses talk about their training, I don't think either of those things is commonly true. Nurses are given procedures to follow and have limited context for them. Doctors on leave are often replaced (in the UK at least) from a pool of extra-well-paid "locum" consultants, whereas nurses are relatively often chronically understaffed or borrowed from other areas of a hospital and practice where they might not have equivalent training.
A midwife friend told me that in midwifery there was a very strong trend to medicalise childbirth as a procedure (more caesareans amongst other interventions) and then a pushback against that as research and community knowledge said "no actually, mothers' emotional wellbeing and also their agency and involvement in decision-making is IMPORTANT and paying attention to those lead to better outcomes". Surely similar things are important across many many many other areas of medical practice, but I bet they're less well researched and that there's less history of that kind of less-professionalised-care being a valued skill of its own in other fields.
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Yeah, IME, it feels like nurses are working with checklists, whereas doctors are more oriented around actually solving my problem. (This is part of what I was thinking with "doctors are more intelligent and require more training" -- their work involves much more cognitive labor.)
It confuses me, though, that I get so much pressure and pushback when I say "I don't want to do X." Do they get reprimanded for failing to complete procedures, even when the reason is "the patient refused"?
Childbirth is one of the most intense experiences someone can go through, so this sounds really bad in that context! I'm glad there's pushback.
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in reply to kip • • •I'm talking second-hand and haven't done either job myself, but I get the impression that's part of it: nurses are often carrying out treatment decisions that someone else (hospital policy or a doctor) has made. I've also heard of places having a pretty dysfunctional culture of hierarchy where it's not considered OK for a very experienced nurse to question the decision of a doctor, which I've gotta imagine can fit into this type of situation.
My impression is that this isn't about individual intelligence so much as that one is a job which entrusts them with decision-making authority and budgets time to learn about the needs of the patient into the work day, and the other is a job which about carrying out work planned by other people (routine things determined by hospital policy, or patient-specific stuff decided by a doctor/surgeon).
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in reply to Rick Korzekwa • •I'm glad you've had a good time with nurses. There's a lot of variance, so I expect many people feel this way overall.
Yes -- I think in many of these situations, the provider does not believe that the patient is suffering as much as they claim. As a patient, it's very distressing. I've had a lot of good healthcare experiences as well, but bad experiences have the potential to be intensely bad.
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