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Yeah. I'd argue nurses are often underappreciated and likely underpaid for the work they do. Often they also notice a lot of illnesses or changes in condition earlier than doctors, and that can be fairly accurate from medical experience or studying.

That said there is a reason doctor and nurse are different names and separate jobs. Maybe we should be looking more at why there is a lack of them rather than trying to find substitutes.

My problem with the weapon customisation is that it feels half-assed. It feels like it's at the level I'd see in an Early Access game that plans to expand before full release. Problem is that this is a fully released game with a huge budget: how long are we going to have to wait for any system they release to be finished?

And to be clear I do like that they're making big updates. So many things they do are actually nice (though not all), but it feels like they're then forgotten about for months when they could use just a bit more work and tuning.

Since it's ELI5 I'll keep it very simple. It's not like I know the exact mechanics anyway. No guarantee of pedantic correctness. I'm sure if I get anything overly wrong then someone who wouldn't comment otherwise will correct me (please and thank you).

Let's start from interpolation. It's a simple maths idea: inter for between, poles for points. Let's say you have two points. You could draw a line between them, take the middle point of that line. You've now introduced a new point.

This concept is used a lot in physics or maths in general. Let's say you are writing down the speed of a car over time. You have 1 speed value per second. But you're interested in the speed at 23.33 seconds for some reason.

Now you have a few options:

• You could take the speeds at 23 and 24 seconds and just the same as before: draw an imaginary straight line between them, and read what speed that is at for 23.33.
• You could also look at how the speed changed from 22 to 23 instead, especially if you didn't have the 24s time written down.
• You could look at more of the speed values and try to figure out how the car's speed changes over time, since it's unlikely to be linear. That gets you to more complex forms of interpolation. That's what's used to find a more descriptive equation of motion for objects.

That may have been a bit of a tangent, but it does get us back to frame generation. We are interpolating where each pixel is between frames. Or perhaps even saying: okay, this visual object moved from X to Y, what happened between them?

The key part is: graphics already have this information. It would be wasteful to re-render an entire scene every frame, so you just look at what needs updating and how. But that means you know what happens one frame to the next. So now you just take that information and do some simple maths to figure out the in-between step, and show that to the user as well.

Performance-wise it's not costly. The tough calculation is the update from frame to frame. It does take a bit of time though, introducing some tiny lag in your display.

Of course the actual frame gen algorithms can take a lot more data into account, but the simple idea is: between Point X and point Y there exists a point A which we can calculate relatively cheaply and display first.

I don't know, I think the nuclear promise can almost safely be ignored. Largely unpopular, costs too much money and time. I wouldn't mind seeing it happen, but it's whatever at this point.

The other promises though? To me it sounds like a lot of big things without having the gov pay for it (in fact the government would be cutting taxes and investment). It'll be through private investment, which could be okay, or it could be a disaster with investors wanting high returns from the homes they build, for example.

And then we come to...

Scotland’s first NHS appointments app and AI-driven diagnostics in the NHS

Now this is where I instantly draw the line. I like the app idea, that's fine; I wish I didn't need to call and gamble at 9am for an appointment. AI diagnostics though? What kind of AI? Because I can't help but assume generative AI and that's an insane concept that means I reject everything else he's saying outright. Even outside of genAI I'm not aware of machine learning applications that would help reliably enough.

Smells a lot like "we'll have our cake and eat it too". I might vote for the Scottish Labour guy in my constituency since they're much more on the left, but I'm not inspired to vote for Scottish Labour as a whole.

There's a bit of a counterpoint to that: spaced/distributed learning contributes to long term memory encoding. Revisit something a week or two later and a year down the line you'll remember it more than if you did it the next day.

So depends on your goals a bit. That said, if you can, don't leave stuff last minute because stress is definitely not good for memory if nothing else.

I'm seeing this post a bit late, but I feel like I have to weigh in slightly, though it's not my research area.

Note that my information extends more to academic studying, don't know if it's quite as true for learning more physical skills.

The main concept for learning is deeper learning. Which basically just means actually using your brain to think about the material. Things like connecting it to other ideas, pondering different implications, that sort of thing.

The reason flashcards work is because you think about what questions you could ask about the material. The reason you write by hand vs type is because it's slower and you have to think about what's more important or how you'd summarise the information.

I believe reading aloud typically works because it forces you to be slower and more deliberate, giving you time to actually process what you're reading.

That said what you've written is helpful and mostly correct, I'm just not so certain about the framing. It could mislead some people into just rewriting notes while reading them out, for example, which is inefficient and not very helpful for learning.

A very easy-to-read source with practical tips:

• Optimizing Learning in College by Putnam et al. (2016) (Look it up on Google scholar for a free pdf)

Also as a final tip, my favourite exam prep technique: do a past paper without having looked at any notes or done any prep. Answer as much as you can just thinking about what you remember. Then go through with notes. It primes your brain for processing and storing the information.

I find it funny that we see:

Two supernaturally resilient and strong murderous humans (Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees)

Two non/metaphysical entities (Freddy Krueger and Pennywise)

... and Ghostface who is a normal human, regardless of which version.

Ah yes, the £166k out of £320m for road upgrades is the issue. Nah, fuck you. If we "have to" displace wildlife we might as well take some fucking responsibility. I can see a Reform member might not understand that concept.

And let's not pretend they'd actually spend it on social care, education, or whatever else they want to point towards.

Not sure why this is worth entertaining with a news article.

You know, I played a lot of lance and never realised that. I guess it's because it's right trigger to block?

I guess canonically that probably means hunters are ambidextrous.

Been a while since I played, but I didn't even reach 1k hours and was trading stuff much earlier than that. In 850h I think I bought plat once, and made it to 21 (iirc) mastery total, with a dozen or two frames and weapons in store. The only thing I spent plat on is either intermediate currency for trading, or more slots (which you still get plenty of for free from events and such).

The game involves a lot of grinding to begin with, but you can easily farm a bit to find something to sell for plat.

Also Reddit misled you a bit. The game throws 50 and 75% off plat fairly regularly at you.

Especially about the competitive thing though: I've never had that thought. I've never seen it as competitive to begin with, even in a friendly way. And afaict, there's nothing you could do with money that would give you too much of an advantage. Maybe skip a bit of the grind, but a lot comes from mastery levels, build synergies, and knowing how to play your frame right... And even then outside of Steel Path and other endgame-ish content you can easily nuke an entire level with minimal effort.

All that said: yeah, it's a free to play game and it has a few features that will make you want to spend money. You can absolutely not spend a single cent and achieve whatever you want though, which is why people praise it. It just means playing the game more, so the question really becomes whether you enjoy the gameplay loop to begin with and how much time you're willing to spend.

Awful. Especially the stats about GPs not providing proper care, and trans people not wanting to go to A&E out of fear of discrimination.

And to be fair I do know people who have/are coming to terms with being trans but not willing to approach their GP.

Recently seeing a (very feminine) trans woman having to use the men's bathroom was also just an upsetting reminder of the legal and political state of things. It's very understandable that they're worried.

The lack of empathy towards trans people is staggering. Honestly, towards people in general too.

We're at the point where Labour is using ads I'd expect to see in countries like Hungary or from Reform or the GOP?

I know I might not consume the most balanced news nowadays (I try to keep my despair and doom levels low) but damn, Labour does seem to sink lower on the regular in ways I don't expect.