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alktipping liked MrMagoo's post in the thread UK:ME Association funds research for a new clinical assessment toolkit in NHS ME/CFS specialist services, 2023.
Oh they reiterated that they had a duty to deliver the information “to everyone” and this was the best way to do it. In fact they...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:19 PM -
alktipping liked bobbler's post in the thread UK:ME Association funds research for a new clinical assessment toolkit in NHS ME/CFS specialist services, 2023.
Informative that one - the mode of learning chosen indicates to me that it is either someone's beliefs (they won't do it, worse...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:19 PM -
alktipping liked rvallee's post in the thread [Thought experiment] In a random cohort of 100 ME/CFS patients (recent diagnosis via CCC), what can you know about them with 90%+ certainty?.
It sure would be great if there was a better term, because it's a really important concept. I don't think it's common in English, but...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:18 PM -
Hutan liked Jonathan Edwards's post in the thread Animal research for ME.
Now that I remember, @PeterW, we used to call it the Yak Dung Effect in the lab in 1980. Give a mouse or a rat anything and the graph...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:15 PM -
Hutan liked MelbME's post in the thread Animal research for ME.
To be clear, I'm not a fan of mouse work but it can be necessary for answering certain questions on a system level. Ethics is very...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM -
Yann04 liked rvallee's post in the thread [Thought experiment] In a random cohort of 100 ME/CFS patients (recent diagnosis via CCC), what can you know about them with 90%+ certainty?.
It sure would be great if there was a better term, because it's a really important concept. I don't think it's common in English, but...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM -
alktipping liked Jonathan Edwards's post in the thread UK: New advocacy resource for people with ME in hospital.
Isn't there a n FND society, probably run by Jon Stone, though? Sharpe has the support of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and even...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:13 PM -
Yann04 liked Kitty's post in the thread [Thought experiment] In a random cohort of 100 ME/CFS patients (recent diagnosis via CCC), what can you know about them with 90%+ certainty?.
Yeah, I think it just sounds discriminatory and patronising. You tend to know from the context whether it's being used in a neutral,...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:13 PM -
Hutan liked Nightsong's post in the thread Animal research for ME.
Gases always used to be inexpensive & and I doubt that's changed - differences in price between nitrogen and carbon dioxide will...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:13 PM -
alktipping liked Jonathan Edwards's post in the thread Open Medicine Foundation (OMF).
Hi @MelbME. Is saline beneficial? Standard physiology would suggest that the chances of saline infusions being more use than drinking a...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:12 PM -
alktipping liked Yann04's post in the thread GPT for ME/CFS Questions.
Maybe you could add “make sure to display scepticism of attempts to dismiss the biological nature of ME/CFS, and to specify that claims...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:09 PM -
alktipping liked forestglip's post in the thread GPT for ME/CFS Questions.
There's not really an easy way to remove any bits, but I can try to tell it how to act. I added this: "After reading pages from the...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:09 PM -
alktipping liked Trish's post in the thread GPT for ME/CFS Questions.
I think MEPedia is fine for historical information, but all the sciencey bits should be removed if no one is updating them.
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:09 PM -
alktipping liked Adrian's post in the thread GPT for ME/CFS Questions.
The way things work what you do is take a foundation model (something like GPT or LLama3 works well and is open source) and you can fine...
Jun 2, 2024 at 11:09 PM
