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House
2004 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 8 seasons
Created by David Shore
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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(I have only watched the first season of Dr. House and watched a lot of clips of the shows. I am more familiar with Dexter and also recently The Mentalist)
I would say that it depends. I know that Dr. House once caught a girl who had a condition where she wanted to get doctor's attention and he did some really bold move with this hunch.
Dr. House moves on his hunch and he (usually?) turns out to be right. Though most of it is focused on the diagnosis of disease.
It's unclear if they cross paths or not and if House is invested in catching Dexter, if House wants Dexter to be caught.
I do feel like though if Dr. House is somehow invested in catching Dexter. He might be able to do that.
A much more interesting question could also be how Patrick Jane from Mentalist could catch Dexter?
I recommend watching this video if this topic interests you (although I haven't watched it myself and I am going to do it just now): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB8agSrx-8
I think this was a fun Ask HN and I was actually reading it on the phone and I opened my laptop just to answer it because it caught my attention. I love dexter, its just such a great show in my opinion :-)
[0]: How Long Would It Take Patrick Jane To Catch Dexter?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB8agSrx-8
There was an episode of House that covered this.
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Jonah#:~:text=Dr.%20Foreman%20figured,all%20the%20symptoms.
> Voters tend to get what they want
I wish that was true. In the case of tobacco and alcohol, there's enough monied interests to ensure it would never be illegal.
So this defines the classic simple argument about the issue: alcohol and tobacco are dangerous and other than a weird House episode, have no medical value, and yet society has decided that some dangerous drugs are ok, because the right people are making money from it.
Propaganda has effectively sold the War on Drugs as "protecting people", but it's never been about that -- it's about enabling tools of oppression.
There actually was an episode of House with this very diagnosis from a hip replacement, https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Family_Practice
I do not know who these Very Important Patients are, what sort of insurance they carry, what their social-credit ratings are, or what sort of providers they see, but this article reads to me like an episode of “House MD” or “Doc Martin”.
I can only vouch for my personal lived experience, as a mentally ill man living in poverty, on Medicaid and ACA plans. No provider would ever in a million years do this kind of diligence for any condition. Not in the Emergency Department for sure . They run standard tests: every test that insurance will pay for, every test that my credit rating will bear, and then they slap on the most common treatments and try to get me outta there ASAP.
I’ve long had alleged thyroid issues and alleged organ troubles that can be wicked mimics of myriad conditions, and Levothyroxine (Synthroid) in particular can engender some horrific psychiatric symptoms.
So bravo to the genius providers who evidently needed to apply for grants and/or needed to get monographs published in the JAMA, so much so that they went to considerable and unnecessary expense to figure out this lady’s issues.
It's a pretty terrible way to go. Death doesn't come immediately; you seem fine at first, and then about 3 days later you suffer intense abdominal pain and vomiting. At about 4 days you realize your liver is irreversibly shot and you're a dead man walking unless you can get a liver transplant. Then you enter multi-organ failure as your body and brain shuts down.
Acetaminophen poisoning actually featured on two episodes of House, and one of them had the suicide plotline. In S05E11, "Joy to the World" they suspected an overweight teen OD'd on acetaminophen trying to kill herself, but the actual diagnosis was eclampsia from an undisclosed pregnancy. In S06E10, "Wilson", a friend of Wilson's suffers acetaminophen poisoning while trying to manage his back pain.
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Joy_to_the_World
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Wilson_(episode)
Sounds like a Dr. House episode.
Exhibit A: All episodes of Dr. House
Reminded of that episode of House where the lady with dormant syphillis had something like this.
I wonder are there any ways I can contract this without breaking marital vows
“House” did this for some episodes during one season. It was, indeed, obvious and truly horrible. An ugly stain on an otherwise excellent show.
I'm guessing you can afford spending $300 on light therapy glasses.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, but saw 4 seasons of dr. House. Moreover, few hours of Huberman Lab on sleep and light and most importantly, this episode of Additude Mag Podcast on curing SAD and ADHD day-rhytm shifting with light glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu4mLgkNc6I
What happens in the seasonal affective disorder season is the sunlight pattern diverges from 6-18 that we evolved with. Without daily reminder of getting enough sun (or sun-like) light at the 6 o'clock⁰, your body clock will drift.
It can start by feeling groggy instead of refreshed in the morning, even if you've slept enough. And can escalate into loosing the will to do anything or even live.
No wonder. You're still an animal. You need to be fed, put to bed, etc. at a specific time. If you try to make your body sleep during the day, and eat and work during what body expects to be night, you won't really sleep and won't really live/work. Enough of not really sleeping and not really living - you mess up your body, your gut biome, your hormonal balance and your brain chemistry. You kind of should get depressed when you do it.
You can steer your body clock with light. Most of us do it, by exposing ourselves to strong (strong enough it won't matter if it includes blue wavelength or not).
But you can do it consciously (and in a way good for you) by putting on light therapy glasses (I'm using Lumiere 3¹, and they are not the only ones, find your own) at 6⁰ everyday, or right after you wake up if you're trying to readjust your rhythm. Or if you have time and want to save $200, use a stationary lamp and just sit in front of it doing nothing. I don't have the time. When readjusting, small doses of melatonin (0.5mg) 1h before sleep will accelerate body clock shift.
But don't listen to me, if you have SAD, you should really listen to that ADHD experts episode.
I feel for you, struggling with that stuff for a long time. Vit D, fish oil (lot of). All lights at home set to reduce intensity after 18. Strict going to bed routine. Still sleep poorly once in a while, but can do things in winter again. Hope it will help :)
0: choose whatever suits you. With small doses of melatonin and discipline in using light glasses you can even flip day and night. Just stay consistent, good farmer always feeds his cows at the same time.
1: at the time of buying ( fall '25 ) they were cheapest and best overall in norway. Solid build, ok battery, can have them on during yoga using attached rubbers and kind of can have them over glasses. Mine are very large and have blue light filter, but I manage 20min without eyeglasses. Medical certificate. Few leds, holo strip, battery and some plastic - my inner Scrooge says it's not worth $285, but everything else was worse and more expensive.
If I posted a photo of myself and you did that it would be hilarious. Reminded me of that House MD episode.
You know when something doesn't annoy you until someone points it out?
It's so obvious in hindsight. Shows like the Big Bang theory, House and Scrubs I very rarely caught two episodes consecutively (and when I did they were on some release schedule so you'd forgotten half of the plot by next week). But they are all practically self contained with only the thread of a longer term narrative being woven between them.
It's doubtful that any of these netflix series you could catch one random episode and feel comfortable that you understand what's going on. Perhaps worse is the recent trend for mini-series which are almost exactly how you describe - just a film without half of it being left on the cutting room floor.
Mine replayed a couple of seasons of House, where this would be a staple in most episodes :)
The American series (House and Elementary) has the advantage of more seasons and episodes, which I think is sometimes required to showcase the challenges of drug addiction and mental health. The fact that these characters having to come back to face the same problem over and over again episode after episode is more true to the nature of the mental health problem itself.
BBC Sherlock has too little episodes to bring audience along a prolonged struggle with mental health.
The outage did make me realise I’d be happier watching episodes of House instead
I would wonder though how many opioid addicts are more addicted for literal pain relief reasons, to give a bad comparison someone like House on the TV show. In that case I could see it working out fine, that's much more like buying pain medication illegally because you can't afford or can't see a doctor for some reason.
This was a key plot device in almost every episode of House. Stepping away from the problem gives your brain time to work on the problem in the background.
I completely understand why someone wouldn't want to get tested.
There are several episodes of House M.D. that deal with this. Hadleys, one of the doctors, mom had Huntingtons and house hounds her to get tested. She doesn't want to get tested. Really great set of episodes.
I can completely understand how knowing/not knowing would change how you approach life.
Or indeed the TV series House, albeit in the US.
So was House MD (well researched). Or Mr Robot. Or Silicon Valley. Heck, even Futurama did its research to the point they proved a new mathematical theorem for a joke. But being entertaining is always the priority for a TV show. Sure, maybe talk with the creators and get their inputs and insights, but don’t base your opinions on policies so heavily on simply watching the show. They’re called “dramas” for a reason.
Its like if I want to watch Alien, all four of those older movies they want me to have two subscriptions?
And then most of streaming services actually stream stuff, so if my internet is bad im gonna sit there annoyed. I have a small samsung projector and its literally freezing all the time (something to do with wifi and qos, i have other things in my life more interesting that sysadmining a router).
Then up until last year, i could not even watch Dr. House legally.
And then the content changes over time. I remember seeing a scene, that i no longer see. Like wtf?
Its 98% (made up number) that its the service fault.
I don't feel I had the same take away from the 2 definitions as the author.
> Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing one to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows one to solve a larger problem.
and
> A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
The author seemed to take this to mean yak shaving are the annoying parts of the project that still need to get done, like fixing a bug. Those are useful activities that are central to the project in my book. A large project is a collection of these smaller actions.
When I read these two definitions, I read them as being a completely separate activity from the project. Those times you've been beating your head against the wall for 2 hours trying to solve a problem and nothing works... so you go for a walk, play some ping pong, or work on some easy tasks related to some pet project that you enjoy. When coming back to the problem you were stuck on, the problem is almost instantly seen and fixed. I've had this happen countless times, to the point where I need do it as an intentional action. This was also part of the plot of nearly every House episode, and often the reason given for why Einstein worked at the patent office.
I think my framing fits both definitions provided for yak shaving, and don't see the definitions as all that different when looked at in this context.
The trend of 'savant but antisocial asshole' is not just a software thing.
Gordon Ramsay - "this food is fucking raw!" /throws food
We have sitcom dramas like House glorifying the same thing.
Keep in mind that even in the excellent documentary to which you refer, about Dr Hugh "House" Laurie, MD. PhD. McT., the premise is that his setup - a dedicated diagnostics team to focus on difficult to diagnose cases - is a rare concept, not something seen at most US hospitals. There wasn't, for example, a similar team in that other great documentary "Scrubs".
Doctors here in Europe are not really into diagnostic medicine. I'm going to compare with Dr. House from the TV series who with a team spent days on a single patient. This is not the reality, the reality is that your specialist doctor will spend 10 minutes thinking about your case before moving on to the next patient.
There was an episode of House that took a deep dive down this rabbit hole, "Ignorance is Bliss":
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Ignorance_is_Bliss
> But at the top of the episode is the relationship between Sidas and his wife Dara. Years before, Sidas realizes that he derives only anxiety from his work as the pressure on him to come up with even more brilliant ideas becomes unbearable. This parallels House's recent breakdown when House realizes the satisfaction he derives from his work is at risk, and then finds that it's the only thing that makes his life bearable. Both Sidas and House try to find solace in relationships, but they both have severe deficits when trying to bond with people – their intellect gets in the way. Sidas seems to have found the answer – a way to turn his intellect down to normal without damaging it permanently. He does it because he truly cares for Dara and realizes that in his "clear" state, he will punish her for her limited intellect.
This reminds me of a quote from dr. House. In one of the episodes with the smart girl that also studied mathematics (I don't remember her name), Cuddy said something like "You will figure this out, the sum of your IQs is over X". To which House replied, "The same applies to a group of four stupid people".
Sometimes knowledge and experience aren't additive: if none of the students had a certain experience/knows a certain fact, the sum of the students will still not have that experience or not know the fact.
Medical experts have done teardowns of House episodes and most of what happens in the series wouldn't happen in real life, that is, diagnoses are better than how they are depicted there.
> It's infuriating how many problems in our lives are met with a shrug
If you know anyone in medicine you know they are swamped by hypochondriacs, frauds and crazies. Absent clear diagnostic criteria--or a person privately funding the search costs, with time and money--it’s infeasible to expect a collectively-funded system to explore every potential case like an episode of House MD.
There have been sufferers ranging from age 18-85, and it affects both men and women in approximately equal numbers. Both of those things are highly suggestive of some kind of environmental cause. If this were an episode of House, a lot of peoples' homes would be getting broken into right about now.
I mostly watch 90s and 00s movies and TV shows because you know why. Same here. All new things are shit. Could House be aired today?
Life imitates art
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0774236/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_season_2#ep42
Makes sense, thanks! I first heard about crush syndrome from an episode of House, and IIRC it ended up being a cause of death so didn't exactly learn how to manage it. Though I want to say the woman there was pinned from the waist down, which I'd imagine complicates things.
My golden hallucination tests for chatgpt are identification of Simpsons season and episode based on description of some plot lines or general0 descriptions.
I had to refresh my knowledge base visiting fandom websites to review the episode selected as answer as chatgpt tendency to mix things up and provide entirely made up episodes make it hard for bar trivias (and makes me doubt myself too). The same with other tv series such as House MD and Scrubs.
In my younger and more foolish years I worked for a company called Redgate and, whilst there, I had to do some licensing jiggery pokery that stopped people using our tools if the licensing code had been tampered with or removed.
I didn't want to make it too easy for people trying to crack our tools so, if such a problem were detected, the error message spat out to the console bore no relation to what had gone wrong.
By "bore no relation" I mean the error message would be one of a number of lines of dialogue from a scene in a House episode where House is trying to figure out who Wilson's girlfriend is... which led to this:
https://gist.github.com/gregoryyoung/871736
Yes, Greg Young (the event sourcing guy) ran into an error that said "Because I wanna ask you about your girlfriend. I must know who she is, or you would've told me her name," because he'd moved Smartassembly minus the licensing DLLs. Of course, he didn't realise what he'd done "wrong" so he tweeted it to his considerable following and it went viral.
Because I'm exactly the sort of walking cliche you'd expect I was blissfully unaware of the unfolding drama, being away on sabbatical snowboarding at the time. I hadn't taken my laptop with me, I'd disabled data roaming on my phone to avoid a whopper of a bill after a couple of months away, and had only a gen 1 iPad to access email and internet. So of course I came back in the evening to discover that it had all kicked off, with this ludicrous chain of emails where people were trying to figure out what was going on, until somebody had the sense to go and look in our source control system (which at the time was still svn for most things), and figure out that it was my fault.
People saw the funny side and it wasn't that big a deal but the reason I bring this up is that the last line of dialogue in that scene is, "Your mama," delivered by Wilson to House, and it was also the error message for the final failure scenario I was looking for. I'm glad that one didn't get printed.
Excellent article.
Star Trek proposed a magical technical Tricorder as an ultra compact futuristic little black bag. You could whip it out and aim it at someone and have scads of useful data instantly.
Reality delivered us new tech like MRIs that require their own room at a hospital. Instead of the doctor going to your home and seeing you in the context in which you live, thereby providing substantial information without having to ask, the patient now goes to the clinic.
The result: The patient has ceased to be a whole person and product of their environment in the eyes of the physician. They are merely a specimen in a petri dish.
At one time, most humans lived in small communities where everyone knew each other and the doctor was one of the smartest and most educated people there. He was in the wisdom business.
Now doctors are expected to still deliver the results of being in the wisdom business while largely being reduced to technicians who lack the wealth of contextual information that once informed their practice of medicine.
This is compounded by larger communities and mobile cultures where we no longer know everyone for years and years.
How we fix this, I don't know.
But I am reminded that House was tentatively called "Everyone Lies" in preproduction. Figuring out the lies being told in every episode was a critical part of solving the medical mystery featured.
Modern physicians no longer know x patient is an alcoholic and hiding it and y patient is a philanderer whose sickly wife stopped sleeping with him years ago and it's both rude and ineffectual to ask about such things. You will likely be lied to.
But details like that are critical to sorting out what's really wrong medically and thus how to treat it effectively. And such issues absolutely fall in the purview of medical humanities, an aspect of the profession that desperately needs rethinking to resolve what ails modern medicine and thus improve health for modern people everywhere.
Time to bring it back for an special episode where House say's it's not lupus, but it turns out it is and they find out thanks to an intern, and then they cure it using this new therapy.
I believe that pageview is an extremely poor proxy for relevance, because it is heavily biased towards subjects that are more likely to be looked up (there is a hundred reasons to look up the singer, there are but a few reasons to look up Madonna/Virgin Mary, because its too generic).
Just consider analogously, "House": People look up Gregory House about 4 times more often than "House" as in building, but thats kinda to be expected, and a very obviously insufficient reason for an encyclopedia to link "House" to the TV series by default...
Oh man, this would make a cool Dr. House episode resolution.
>>Whether or not intentially, the client is almost always lying to you
There's a TV drama called House. It's ostensibly a medical drama with the titular Dr House having to diagnose people who provide incomplete information.
It took me 3 episodes to realise its actually a show about IT support (but who would watch that right?)
His catch phrase was "everyone lies" - and the first rule of IT support is that you should never believe a word they say.
These days remote desktoping almost takes the fun out of it. I now last about 2 minutes before demanding TeamViewer (or whatever.) The days of spending 45 mins on the phone listening to someone not tell me about the big prominent error message on their screen are over.
So next time you're watching House remember, this is an IT support allegory.
It may depend on what TV shows you watch. It's been on Grey's Anatomy, the Good Doctor and House MD. I thought it was on Chicago Med once or twice too.
There was a House MD episode about something similar. https://youtu.be/tLMzEOoSjc4?si=j08sc6pptBqWinbq
Tangential, I saw an episode of House where he put a patient with medical implants into an MRI and they ran it for a few seconds till the burning was too painful. Was this realistic?
House Season 1 Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xHxNGplfic
Dr. Gregory House's motto is "Everybody lies."
My fantasy is to create a hit TV series about an engineering firm and the motto is "Everything's a trade-off."
There are two modes of watching TV in my opinion: intentional and casual
Intentional: look for a certain show/movie, e.g. the weekly episode of House MD, Lost, Friends, HBO, ... -> This is the streaming war between Netflix, HBO, Disney, ...
Casual: You turn on the tv with the aim to just browse around and relax, and get something accidentally interesting/amusing -> Youtube is king and more or less the only option here (and a bit of Nebula)
The two together is the traditional TV
House drew a lot of inspiration from Sherlock Holmes - both get cases nobody else can solve, Wilson / Watson are their close companion who are essential to solving many cases, etc. It's something acknowledged in interviews by people involved in the show.
The drug use is another thing - Sherlock used cocaine and morphine. House used Vicodin. Morphine and Vicodin are both opioids.
If they had him abuse cocaine, it would be too unrealistic. If they had him abuse Adderall, it might not be obvious to audiences that he has a substance abuse problem - people could write it off as him using it to focus. A prescription opioid is something audiences understood were abused at the time, and maintains the Sherlock connections the writers were going for.
Plus it gives plenty of plot hooks to explore the effects and consequences of addiction to someone we believe to be very successful (success is happiness, right?) in season 1
> The University of Pennsylvania announced the novel experiment on Thursday, a different spin on animal-to-human organ transplants
This was done over thirty years ago...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/woman-saved-by-pig-liver-20-years-ago-reunites-with-medical-team-1.2879917
There is even a house md episode (S1E15 "Mob rules") utilizing it..... Am I missing something?
I'm not downvoting you, but your take is perhaps a tad cynical.
I get your point - yes doctors have a lot of tools at their disposal, and yes using those tools comes at a cost, but wouldn't you want to use those tools if you were in that position?
X-rays are not exactly cutting edge- if a fracture is suspected they are fundamental. Bloodwork etc are key diagnostic indicators. Sure people lie ("Everybody Lies" - House [1]) tests are helpful to understand those lies.
It absolutely can be economical to give everyone the best possible health care - especially at the primary diagnostic stage. That being true, yes, every part of the system is independently determined to maximise their profit. From the X-ray operator to the blood-test-maker.
It's worth remembering that these common tools, that have been around for decades, are still more expensive (by a lot) in the US than elsewhere. Yes, health insurance makes massive profit. But so does precisely everyone else involved at any level.
So if it is "not economic" perhaps its more any issue of "greed" than math.
[1] House is an old TV show about computer support, using medicine as a metaphor.
I see you believe in compliment sandwiches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPVnOonSO-s&ab_channel=VivaLaDirtLeague
Saying that something was "cheap crap" except for one performance, is not really constructive to any discussion. It's also definitely derogatory. It's mostly inflammatory. Them complementing Braugher's performance doesn't really change the tone they started out their comment with.
As an example of their comment that isn't Derogatory/inflammatory:
> His performance in Brooklyn 99 was about the only thing I liked in the show; he is very good in the House M.D. episode/s that he's is in.
I never found Brooklyn 99 to be anything more than cheap crap other than his performance; he is very good in the House M.D. episode/s that he's is in.
I don’t think so, to be honest. The landscape for media consumption is so much different than 10-15 years ago. Without any supporting data, I have a hunch that, shows are mostly watched within a year of its original air date. New shows aren’t on a rerun (I recall Scrubs, House being on from time to time), they are not turning into a comfort background tv show (like The Office, Friends) or have a religious fanbase that’ll just follow along because there are 20 seasons of it (NCIS, Greys Anatomy and so on.).
On top of everything, media is extremely fragmented. So much choice that there isn’t any specific shows that people watch because everyone else is watching and will talk about it on Monday during lunch (a la Game of Thrones). So all these companies are left with churning new shows trying to find a holy grail of the Stranger Things size to bring them new subscribers. Until then, anything that doesn’t stick on the wall, will get cut off.
We have a huge movie industry scene in my city, so you hear from people who jump from working show A to show B. None of the shows I’ve ever heard of and never will. But producers are still hoping for a genre defining hit somehow.
> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers.
What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones, no House. Everything new is terrible, often embarrassingly so.
It’s as though sometime in the last decade all the talent and skill left media, and now we have corporations and people going through the motions but not actually producing anything worth watching.
If you've seen one episode of Law & Order or House you've seen every episode in the series.
Huh? Doctors don't base their decisions on House episodes. Not even ER episodes.
The Wikipedia article doesn't really discuss it, the reference is in the episode's introduction.
The episode in question features not-Marina-Abramović exhibiting not-Rhythm-0. An audience member approaches the table and picks up a weapon. Audience murmurs. Artist stands stoically. Audience member motions like they are going to use the weapon on the artist. Audience gasps. Artist's assistant protests. Artist objects to protests, then promptly collapses with mystery illness (House MD's writers had a thing for misdirecting the audience re: who's sick in the episode intros).
Some streaming boxes will do exactly that; both Apple’s and Amazon’s will, and perhaps others. For example, if you search for a movie or TV show on Fire TV or in the Apple TV app (on that box) it’ll show you the title and what services currently have it available. Searching for Stranger Things and House on Apple TV, for example, return links into Netflix or the Prime Video app (where I’ve been watching the latter).
At least two more episodes: S03E04 & S0403.
Probably a good way to find more: https://house.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_medical_diagnoses
The episode of House in question is, in fact, its pilot :) Very good show. Not sure how often they handled parasites, interestingly.
This reminded me of a Dr House episode where the patient somehow ingested tape worm eggs, which managed to make their way into the brain, thigh muscle etc... through blood, then hatch there.
Looks like it is referred to as Neurocysticercosis [0].
The parasite does not necessarily chose where it might end up, so it is up to luck. The victim probably ingest a bunch of eggs, which will find their way into different parts of the body, with different level of survivability. The brain does look like a cosy place to survive.
[0] https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/neurocysticercosis
That's extremely easy to say as someone with a serious medical condition who desperately wishes the TV show House were reality. I've read plenty of similar stories to mine.
I came to hate the 15 minute appointment with a passion.
> UK actors putting on US accents
Yeah but Hugh Laurie in House though
> For US readers, the currently growing new London accent is awful and nothing like the 'Cockney' accent you might expect from watching older films. I've yet to see a US actor try that.
Multicultural London English. It's not "awful", although you are entitled to your views. Personally, I think it's great for comedy, have you heard Big Shaq's Man's Not Hot ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M_5oYU-IsU&t=54s
I believe this native-accent is a common gag; Laurie also in one episode of House MD did the American-faking-a-British accent when he telephoned an overpond doctor in GB to learn more about the medical history of a patient.
I also recall an episode of The Mentalist, where agent Rigsby (played by Welsh Owain Yeoman) says he can imitate a british accent and proceeds to do so, only to receive a “nah, not good enough” by the protagonist.
The issue I (as a non-native English speaker) sometimes have with British actors is: how to pronounce their names?! Examples: the aforementioned Owain Yeoman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Siobhan (pronounced Shivohn IIUC) Finneran…
the last time i did this, it was with House, M.D., and it was with downloaded copies (to ensure correct subtitles, right?). Episode came out whatever day, a group of us would gather the next evening and watch it together. We had a blind person and two deaf people in the group.
The only thing netflix (and possibly others, i wouldn't know) have done to improve that situation is adding descriptive audio service, which brings the usefulness of good subtitles to the audio track, so that blind people can experience more of the show that they can't see.
I'm a bad anecdote for a couple of reasons, though: I haven't had a television connected to coax in any way since 2003, and i haven't liked any new television show created after about 2013 or so - furthermore, i haven't really "loved" any series that began after 2004 or 2005. A supermajority of my media (disc and disk) predates the iphone. A plurality predates America Online.
Since i'm already on an aside, i'll point out a couple of things: First, thanks to the likes of MTV's indefatigable pushing in the late 80s and through the 90s, everyone raised in that era (and after) thinks that in order to be engaging, you must change cameras every 3 seconds. Bonus points if there's no story reason to do so. Secondly, or if you prefer, as an ancillary to the first point, the constant viewpoint shifts can aggravate certain conditions; for example, new shows tend to tire me out, and a "binge" for whatever reason tends to leave me with a headache that lasts a couple of days. Third, a plurality (and majority, up to ~75%) of all television shows produced in the US are either directly or indirectly Law Enforcement related, and i'm sure a rigorous study would bear out that has a detrimental effect on both public policy and the zeitgeist feelings of law enforcement and related groups.
One thing I've noticed about my watching habits is that I won't put on a super intense, prestige TV show after work usually (maybe if it's Barry, damn, Barry is so good). Instead I'll watch something lighter or more repetitive like House MD or Schitt's Creek. Now k-dramas are not quite old school network television, but they're certainly more of a palatable affair than your average Showtime or HBO show. I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix realized that for every marquee top tier Emmy winning show, there's hundreds of people just turning on something to watch in the background that is familiar but slightly different.
Really, this isn't a new discovery. Soaps have existed since before television. But it is interesting how instead of one long-lived show, it's now a multitude of similar but different shows.
It's hard to find a long-lasting show that doesn't devolve in the later seasons.
I remember binge watching _House MD_ in college, really liked the beginning, and felt disappointed as the characters grew increasingly comical and less nuanced in later seasons. It's still the same show, similar vibe, similar character if we view them as symbols of personality adjectives (the sarcastic are still sarcastic, the sympathetic still sympathetic), but somehow among those similarities, the subtleties died.
At some point of the show, every angle of romance, mystery, character growth has been investigated, and none of them can come to a resolution, because, well, the show has to go on. How do you raise the stake---which is usually how you hook the audience---when they know nothing the character does will ever come to a conclusion, anything they become can be reverted in the _next season_? In fact, even the changes that have already happened in earlier seasons can be rolled back. I think this is why, in later seasons, a common complaint is that the writers are undoing everything good about the show in the beginning.
Some shows sort of avert this by replacing the main character (e.g. _Doctor Who_) and effectively telling a different story in the same universe. Does it work? Maybe. But still, I've, generally speaking, grown quite reluctant to watch TV shows that are longer than 5 seasons since then.
It also doesn't have TV shows like Game of Thrones, House, The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc etc
Also the House MD episode daddy's boy
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Daddy%27s_Boy
Napoleon's surgeon, Dominic Larry used to treat infections in injured people by putting maggots on them as thet eat only dead flesh, kill any bacteria in damaged tissue. Was referenced on an episode of House MD.
Skip to 9:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z0HsGX6IGU
The milestones (from the source code):
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House is not real, it falls under "arguing from fictional evidence"; House's patients are written by a writing team to have obscure and surprising - yet easy to fix - ailments. They are generally young with acute short term symptoms leading to a race against time and a boolean toggle outcome healed/dead. They are rarely the 70+ year old ICU inhabitant with age related complications who is mentioned in the blog post with long periods of 'boring' illness to keep track of and treatment rotating between many doctors.
House gets to choose his patients, he pre-rejects any that he doesn't want to deal with or has no ideas about, or no interest in. Real world doctors can't do that. House gets to do basically any test for any cost without having to justify it or argue with insurance, scheduling, resource constraints, practicality or side effects. If he needs an MRI, it's available, if he needs his team to spend all night tonight on blood tests in the lab, they can do that and the lab is there and they have no consequences tomorrow of having no sleep.
House has plot immunity, the worst that happens to any hospital employees as a consequence of his behaviour is the loss of a lot of potential money, or some paperwork or audit. The show never focuses on the life of the patient who has to be on dialysis forever because of House's risky intervention before he knew what was really wrong. House blackmails and barters with and sleeps with the hospital administration to get away with things no real doctor could do.
House and Wilson are named as a play on Holmes and Watson, and the original Sherlock Holmes books were notable because Holmes walked the reader through deducing interesting conclusions by looking at evidence anyone present could see but with a fresh viewpoint, things like the height of scratches on a wall. Recent Sherlock TV shows and films, he's written to magically know things that nobody could know, by means the viewer isn't shown and can't participate in, and presents them as amazing accomplishments to wow the viewer. House is the latter, in an episode I saw recently (Series five, episode 1) he is absent all episode with the usual array of organ failures and suspected pregnancy and suspected cancer, then in the last five minutes he walks in, stabs the patient in the leg, declares she has leprosy because she looked youthful, and walks out. And of course she has leprosy. It's not even good storytelling, it's a background thread for House and Wilson's interpersonal problems and his assistant's own terminal disease diagnosis.
Or to put it another way, you read a blog post about heoric troubleshooting of some tech problem and it's good reading. That's self-selected from someone who had an interesting problem and the time and skills to diagnose it and the luck of it coming to an interesting conclusion. Most troubleshooting is not that, it's mostly the basics over and over, or it's above your skill level or outside your skills, or it might not be but you can't spend time on it, or it comes to a boring conclusion like "we never got to the bottom of it before the system was decommissioned".
In Series 3, Dr Foreman goes to be head diagnostician at another hospital, pulls a House move of risk taking treatment, saves the patient, and gets fired. The dean of medicine tells him the procedures work for 95% of cases, and everyone needs to follow them in all cases because everyone thinks their hunch is in the 5%. It works for House because that's the show.
> There’s no sense of a scientific method, reasoning from first principles, or even reasoning from similar cases though. It’s all shooting in the dark, and most of the time I felt like I could have done just as good a job on these longterm issues...
This articulates very well what I've usually felt when dealing with doctors. It's like the story of a programmer finding that his code outputs 5 when it should be 4, and then adding...
if(return_value == 5): return_value = 4
...to fix it, and being satisfied. What I want is something like in the television show House. The main character is unhinged and anti-social and takes extreme risks, but at least he demonstrates curiosity to really figure out and understand the root of what's going on. To be fair, I don't actually think that doctors lack curiosity or are incapable of doing this, the medical system as it's set up just doesn't allow it. For chronic issues, I've usually figured them out for myself, as a layperson, by persistently keeping track of things, searching the web, reading, and experimenting over months and years.
Oh, wow, I'm really happy for you making this.
I'm wondering why these diagnostic tests aren't more common. After all for pets we have routine checkups.
I'm wondering if there's any imaging technique that could reveal this. I saw one House episode where they had a similar case, and they also went through 5 different imaging techniques until they found it.
I wanted to watch the currently in-progress season of a certain anime via the usual legit sites like Crunchyroll, Funimation, etc. All of this anime's seasons are now "not available in my region due to licensing issues".
The DVD/Blu-Ray season sets cost 85-90€ each(!!!) for 13 (~20-22 minutes) episodes per season. That price to me is simply unacceptable, since that's more for one season than the entirety of series like "Friends" or "House, M.D.", either of which provide vastly more content and are WAY more popular than any anime.
As it stands now, I'll probably just wait until the last six episodes of this season become available then use the free "test period" for the "aniverse" channel on Prime Video, on which I arbitrarily can't watch 1080p HD because I have the absolute audacity of not using Windows (a problem which downloads from certain ... 3rd-party sites do not share).
Imagine being obsessed with quantum physics fundamental rules, or designing the proper type system for JavaScript, or wanting to bring personal computers to the masses. Would you honestly be also interested in watching House or chatting with other people about the last Survivor TV show? Come on !!!
Reminds me of this House MD episode: https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Act_Your_Age
I'm in my mid 30s, healthy but a bit lower than avg. testosterone. Experimented with these gels a bit, self-medicated since no endocrinologist would recommend it as a booster as there were no evident issues.
The first couple of days I (and the gf) noticed a boost in aggressive energy but then it quickly faded. Did bloodwork before and three weeks after starting, free and total testosterone went up but the difference was very slight; I've gotten higher levels in previous measurements during summertime while doing more exercise (daily dose was low, one pump from the dispenser rubbed on the shoulders)
Could try an aromatase inhibitor, just don't want to go greater lengths with these experiments, as in anabolics, pellets or injectables, with all the risks that they carry, just something that I can purchase off a pharmacy or supplement store.
Hormones are complicated.
This sounds like the plot of an unaired episode of House.
I wonder how many people are aware of lupus due to the TV show House?
Lupus is really hard to diagnose. There's a reason that ends up being the diagnosis on pretty much every episode of House M.D.
Doctors generally see 6 patients an hour, and have 5-7 minutes of paperwork per patient. The remaining 3 minutes gives enough time to diagnose the obvious, but not much else.
You gave me two beautiful examples, the best examples, thank you very much.
Medicine (healthcare's real name) and driving.
Right so, that ties in to what I was saying, you do need more people for the menial jobs, 20% more bus drivers hired. It doesn't increase COSTS, it increases WAGES, not the same thing! Throwing away half the good food just for the sake of wasting it increases costs, hiring 20% more bus drivers increases wages, the money goes to a person, not to the garbage. And then, too, you have fewer people out of work as a percentage of society, so in fact they're much more productive because instead of resorting to theft and drug deals and borrowing money from good people to pay it back to usurers, and all the costs in uncertainty of being unemployed long term, the bus drivers share a job and are never unemployed.
And they're never depleting their body while unemployed, have you ever thought of the costs of poverty if they were actually charged? An employee can have his back broken in three minutes to make the employer thirty cents in additional profit and complain nothing for fear of being fired (happened to me in Mare Island at a brewery, I had to do all these defensive maneuvers to avoid work that would have caused spinal injury in hours). Like yeah there's the lawsuit, supposedly, tons of lawyers handy to give the employee the run-around, so fine there's a settlement, but does the boss ever completely repair the harm to the worker whose body he considered his like he rented it, good-as-new? He could right! So that's more than what the boss pays, a back injury Amazon-Warehouse style, I figure the suit goes for $300,000. But that's not what it costs to get it good-as-new, that would cost like $15,000,000 for a spine, if that, I think they can never fix a spine for real. Medicine cannot fix that. By having two drivers share the wage, none is ever unemployed and therefore desperate, so they never sacrifice their backs to the boss for a millionth of what it costs to repair them, what's the ROI on that, -99.9999%. So splitting a $70,000 job in half saves millions of dollars, I think that might just cover the "costs" you're talking about.
So that takes us to healthcare in America. As a matter of fact, doctors pretend they work crazy hours, and that's what you see in the felatory TV series like Dr. House and ER, Gray's Anatomy, but many just don't. Surgeons--it depends. I think old doctors in their extreme hazing of young doctors make them work fucked up hours but after the hazing they don't do shit. Don't work shit. Like don't work Fridays a lot of them, and even when you go see them, they are always fucking late. So that's time too, they're not working during those thirteen minutes they keep you waiting, then they take breaks between patients, their hours are mostly empty. They generally cut you short on minutes, like if you want to ask them three things they get pissy, they get pissy for all kinds of stuff, they're actually a boss, doctors are bosses, they boss around the nurse and the pseudo-nurse staff. They even boss around the patient, give you "doctor's orders" as they put it which are not orders in a legal sense. They nag you. They extort you. They judge you. Ask you super personal irrelevant questions. Few put themselves at the patient's service.
Sure some doctors are fine, but if half the waiters put flies in your soup deliberately you're not going to praise the other half for not putting flies in your soup, that's just what a waiter is supposed to do, does he want a 50% tip and praise for not putting a fly in my soup? No, instead it is legitimate to focus on the half that do put flies in your soup, don't correct me for not being fair and balanced. Like why do the other half of waiters tolerate the fly inserters?[1]
In fact 32 hour work-weeks, making doctors actually FUCKING WORK 32 FULL HOURS, and do their job for real, and answer questions for real, not play dumb so they don't do icky work they don't like, not try to shunt you into shitty treatments, not lie about side effects, not misdiagnose, no sadism like that's asking so much, basically not commit what is morally (and much more often than they realize, legally and provably) malpractice and negligence day in and day out would improve healthcare enormously. But it would reduce costs, unfortunately, and they want the opposite. Doctors are a union, they are always on strike, they've been on strike for a century. They make United Auto Workers look like sweatshop workers, Milton Friedman said so.
So thanks so much for those two examples, healthcare and transportation, in both of those the ROI for 32 hour work weeks is gigantic. I would have never realized how strong my arguments secretly were without your comment.
[1] In fact, the fly-inserting waiters are in charge and tolerate the normal waiters to deflect accusations, make those felatory TV series easier to be deceived by, do marketing calling themselves heroes, and release the pressure from the public hating them. They don't want that hatred. And to pin the blame on them when there's a scandal. And the fly-inserters hate them for doing their job properly.
sounds like an episode of House.
“People who drank heavily had the highest risk. However, the team also found that light to moderate drinkers tended to have healthier lifestyles than abstainers -- such as more physical activity and vegetable intake, and less smoking.” That’s surprising if you think abstainers are vegan fitness freaks stereotype, less surprising if it’s actually pretentious stoner stereotype. Low to moderate alcohol points to being in control and reasonable, no alcohol points to substitution. There’s also a funny thing where the pretentious stoner decides smoking is bad and moves onto nangs.
“… analyses also revealed substantial differences in cardiovascular risk across the spectrum of alcohol consumption … minimal increases in risk when going from zero to seven drinks per week, much higher risk increases when progressing from seven to 14 drinks per week, and especially high risk when consuming 21 or more drinks per week… findings suggest a rise in cardiovascular risk even at levels deemed "low risk"… (of one or two drinks per day)” So one to two every day puts you in 7-14 per week which is moderate. So it becomes 1-2 a day is fine but that doesn’t literally mean do it 365 days a year. Orrrrr that one party a week of 7 drinks is the way to go!
Are we also talking about heart disease and drug use? Heart disease and coping? Heart disease and quality of life? Because it seems like we are in that although alcohol bad, somehow alcohol good, or rather alcohol not as bad as not alcohol?
There’s an episode of doctor House where a guy slams cough medicine and vodka to make himself dumber and he proclaims it’s worth it even at the cost of his health.
Doctor House also mentions type a and type b personality, type a being a big risk of heart disease from being (angrily passionate) all the time. Is wiping yourself out, or a 7 drink party once a week, like a form of psychiatric sleep? Be a dumbass for a bit every now and then and your heart won’t explode? Pick something to allow you to belly laugh and not worry for a bit?
You don't necessarily know if a patient has parasites or not when they present at a hospital with severe COVID. Even if just 1% of patients have parasites, then giving them a single pill of Ivermectin before commencing steroid treatment could save their life. For the other 99% of patients, it does nothing.
It's a bit like an episode of Dr House. Trying to determine an illness solely with tests is often futile or prohibitively expensive. It can also take long enough that meanwhile the patient will die. Directly treating them "just on the off chance" can actually be a better approach, but obviously this would have to be weighed up against the side-effects and risks of the treatment and drugs involved.
Ivermectin luckily is so safe that some doctors have called for giving it to every COVID patient that goes to hospital. Saving 1% of patients is... thousands of people at the scale of the pandemic.
All of these incidents remind me of episodes from House MD. I swear they made one on this Antartica where House did a “zoom call”.
The airplane guy had more complications than ruptured lung but apparently he had just came out of scuba diving into the plane.
One of the funniest debates on this subject is in the Pilot episode of House MD when House tells Cameron that he hired her because she was extremely pretty.[1]
Cameron: Why did you hire me?
House: Does it matter?
Cameron: Kinda hard to work for a guy who doesn’t respect you.
House: Why?
Cameron: Is that rhetorical?
House: No, it just seems that way because you can’t think of an answer. Does it make a difference why I think I’m a jerk? The only thing that matters is what you think. Can you do the job?
Cameron: You hired a black guy because he had a juvenile record.
House: No, it wasn’t a racial thing, I didn’t see a black guy. I just saw a doctor…with a juvenile record. I hired Chase ‘cause his dad made a phone call. I hired you because you are extremely pretty.
Cameron: You hired me to get into my pants?!
House: I can’t believe that that would shock you. It’s also not what I said. No, I hired you because you look good; it’s like having a nice piece of art in the lobby.
Cameron: I was in the top of my class.
House: But not THE top.
Cameron: I did an internship at the Mayo Clinic.
House: Yes, you were a very good applicant.
Cameron: But not the best?
House: Would that upset you, really, to think that you were hired because of some genetic gift of beauty not some genetic gift of intelligence?
Cameron: I worked very hard to get where I am.
House: But you didn’t have to. People choose the paths that gain them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort. That’s a law of nature, and you defied it. That’s why I hired you. You could have married rich, could have been a model, you could have just shown up and people would have given you stuff. Lots of stuff, but you didn’t, you worked your stunning little ass off.
Cameron: Am I supposed to be flattered?
[1] https://clinic-duty.livejournal.com/385.html
i’ve gotten scolded by my parents for not wanting to watch TV with them. my dad and siblings usually insisted on having the TV on while eating dinner, much to my mom’s frustration.
i remember one time specifically when my family was all watching “House” (super popular TV show on FOX back in 2004-ish?). I think I wanted to use my laptop or something; don’t remember. My parents got really mad at me, insisting that I watch with them. Ended up doing so, begrudgingly. I get why they did that (family time) but I didn’t like that our family time was spent in front of a screen.
> There are some situations where I come in contact with televisions today. They make me feel frustrated because they sap away my attention.
YES! I can hate watching TV and be angrily fixated on it when at a bar at the same time. My wife doesn’t get it lol
> Intuition is analytic reasoning on steroids
> A simple example is the moment of every episode of House M.D.
House M.D. was based on Sherlock Holmes, who uses inductive, rather than deductive reasoning. e.g. conclusions are not based on analytic reasoning of all the facts, but rather are supplanted by leaps of imagination, which made the series so compelling.
Intuition is inductive reasoning. Because it's not solely analytic, it can also result in answers that are also completely wrong.
> It’s arriving to some sort of truth about something, an event or experience without using any type of analytic reasoning
Intuition is analytic reasoning (and inductive as well) on steroids, but also done subconsciously, that's why it seems mysterious for some. A simple example is the moment of every episode of House M.D. when the actual answer comes: it's not magic, it's the brain continually re-examining information (analytic) and building models (mostly inductive) in the background.
Also, that site is two articles away from claiming the Earth is actually flat.
20 years in the business, if someone asks me to do fizzbuzz or leetcode at an inteview, I'll just walk out and won't look back.
I've been doing this crap way too long to do brain teasers at an interview. I suck at them, I always have. Advent of Code makes my brain hurt.
That doesn't mean I can't design, implement and lead a team to create a service that can handle insane amounts of load with minimal cost.
Can't even think of a similarly stupid thing to ask for a different field. Are doctors quizzed on House[0] -style patient cases to see if they can tell the actual cause from the top of their head?
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/
Reminds me of the House MD episode where the guy takes drugs to make himself "stupid" enough to live with his wife.
There's an issue with collies and collie-derived dog breeds; used to be warnings (even mentioned in an episode of "House"). But. Most of the lines running around today are the ones that weren't sensitive and didn't die from ivermectin. So it's no longer such an issue.
EDIT: (Spoiler Alert)
Episode 1 season 1 of House has the same diagnosis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_(House)
That is quite a strong claim. Certainly we can see examples where ASD was/is not a disadvantage but can we generalize that to saying certain levels/locations on the spectrum are never disadvantageous?
Can we say that a particular type/kind/severity is not disadvantageous on average? But what if it has a higher variance in life/social outcomes (some people are considerably worse off but others are considerably better off compared to a non-ASD population).
Its quite complicated because if a condition is not debilitating then it is also less likely to be diagnosed which means they would be underrepresented in studies.
The big issue is that when you make statistical bets the medical POV is to aim for average, healthy, normative. Is it better to have a gene that has a 10% chance of increasing IQ but a 20% chance of having some mental disorder? It isn't fair to show examples of people that got 'both' without considering the people that only got the mental disorder.
Also, to be fair, it is a trope of any Hollywood serial TV show (House, CSI, etc.) that at least one episode depicts an ASD individual for whom it is either not a disadvantage or benefits them, etc. I wouldn't say these depictions are any closer to a real or respectful representation, However, I would say that there is just as much over-glamorizing of mental health conditions in the current year as there is stigmatizing which is detrimental to everyone.
>The only episode of Dr. House where it was actually sarcoidosis
Thank you for this comment. It seems like every episode has a moment where they say, "Sarcoidosis? Porphyria? Lupus?"
Serious covid complications seem to be the result of inflammation on organs, and nicotine is an immunosuppressant. The only episode of Dr. House where it was actually sarcoidosis, the patient had just quit chewing tobacco, so at least doctors on TV have known for decades. (Sarcoidosis is condition where your organs get inflamed very similarly to covid.) Notably, HCQ is also an effective treatment for sarcoidosis.
Okay, so you have Anti-Phospholipid Antibody Syndrome in the system.
How does someone know to search for this, compared to the other, much more common Lupus-related diseases? I mean, even the TV show “House” featured this one.
And how do you not have the internationally renowned Dr. Reichlin in Oklahoma City in the system as one of the world’s leading experts on the disease?
How do you not have Lipodema or Lymphodema in the system? And if you did, how would someone know to search for a doctor with those specialties?
What about fibromyalgia? Or erythromelalgia?
And these are just the rare diseases in my own family and that of my wife’s family.
And finally, how do you determine that someone is an actual expert in a given field, or how they rate in that field compared to others?
Take this comment with a grain of salt, but there was an episode of House where his patient dug up some old treasure chest and it had a bottle with smallpox sores and they got infected. I remember him saying the virus can lay dormant for a long time. I’d make a phone call or two and get that safely dealt with.
Reminds me of that one House MD episode... crazy
You are being a little strange going on about the money.
The kill rate is around .2%. These are 500+ vaccines that are destroyed. This isn't an episode of House, people will now miss out. Medicine is a zero sum game in real life.
It's reasonable, even probable to think a person will die from this, 500 x .2% = 1
If this is about mental illness and the system. Yes it's 100% broken, I agree.
On a more interesting note, this seems like a mental illness getting as big as the larger religions. Which makes it not an illness really, more being human. Interesting times ahead.
Lol, I've been saying this since July. Severe covid is due to organ inflammation from overaggressive immune system response, and nicotine is an immune system suppressant. The one episode of Dr. House where is was actually sarcoidosis (a systemic inflammatory disease), the patient didn't have any symptoms because of his use of chewing tobacco to manage his weight for wrestling.
There's a House M.D. episode about this. It's one of my favourite episodes, but if you weren't already following the show it wouldn't be the best one to start on, as it involved Wilson doing a lot of analysis on House's way of thinking which you'd lack context on.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Coma_Guy
Sometimes I consider myself lucky that most of the things I read, except for technical books, exist in the public domain.
I'm really not comfortable that my license of reading could be revoked. Or if the company somehow died, or if the kindle program is terminated, or if the relationships with the publisher deteriorate, my content will vanish.
I gained this anxiety when Netflix pulled away "House M.D.", which I binged watched until just before Season 8. Life became busy and I had to stop. When I came back, eagerly wanting to watch the last season, it was already gone from the catalogue.
TV shows, I can forego; book collections I cannot.
When one day I no longer reside in a small apartment, I'll probably go back to buying physical copies.
I watched a video recently that touched on this subject when talking about the TV show House. If you read the script for a regular House episode, there's no conclusion to be had besides House being an insufferable, racist prick. Instead, Hugh Laurie delivers the obviously racist lines so sarcastically that it makes them work very well (which is obviously what the writers were going on).
Yeah, but some of them were from episodes of House
Their $600 camera links to a search which produces 4K body at $1200 as the cheapest camera option... Maybe it once included an 1080p one, but it does not at this point.
Relevant:
"Primer" won many rewards on a similar budget ($7K)
"House" had an episode shot entirely on a Canon 5D (A $2000 camera at the time, IIRC; however, the production likely cost >$1M per episode at the time)
1. There's a Dr. House episode* about this phenomenon.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox6HWOjbDSI
"angry techsavvy teenager" but your "friends" "are in their 50s." Riiiighht. At least you're able to have a multifaceted conversation in this context.
"They are pretty cool dudes with a messed up sense of humor." I dunno but that sounds pretty sociopathic right there, like my friends are cool dudes with a penchant for stealing walkers from old ladies.
There's a certain character type that revels in the rule of the strongest. Bullying and screwing with people because they can. They feel it's the natural order of things. If they don't take advantage of someone or some opportunity, someone else will and be ahead--and they'd rather be ahead. Or they justify it as a way to "teach" others to not be weak and fall for things.
In many ways, I think it is a right-wing or conservative characteristic: rugged individualist winning by breaking social conventions. I also saw it prominently in the House TV series, not coincidentally on Fox. Every episode is a medical mystery, but also all about screwing over other people emotionally--it really seemed off to me.
In my mind, they are low-trust players trying to undermine and benefit from breaking a high-trust society.
Reminds me of an episode of House.
For some reason I have doubts that placing a schizophrenic person into sensory deprivation is going to have them emerge better off. Taking someone that is already out of touch with reality and further disconnecting them seems like it would push them further into schizophrenia.
Reminds me of the House episode
I learned of my own aphantasia while watching an episode of House with my roommate. In the show they had a machine which let them view a rough picture of what a subject was thinking of.
I observed to my roommate that this was an especially dumb plot point as people don't actually think in images but only in words. My roommate was quite confused and claimed that he did think in visuals and we had an interesting conversation and Google search thereafter.
I still am slightly torn between thinking that there is some disconnect in explanation versus believing that some or even most people can actually visualize things in their mind. When I think of a "square", for example, I have access to all the facts I know of squares (polygon with four equal length edges) and I could draw a square or trace one in the air with my finger, so I obviously know what one looks like, but I have no visual experience of a square and it's difficult to imagine that other people do.
One reason it's difficult to imagine other people have the visual imagination they think they do is because I so rarely see people just sitting and imagining things for long stretches - which I assume would be borderline irresistible if you had the kind of fantasy machine to show you whatever you wanted. Perhaps people do this in private and don't talk about it much?
I think when I feel lonely I watch old TV shows like Star Trek or House and a ton of youtube (mostly educational/scientific channels) I avoid drinking, I only got drunk 2 times in my life , without intending it, and a lot of unhappy feelings surfaced, I seen this in my father too, maybe other get violent but me I get extremely sad (last time was 15 years ago so now I would probably be 10x worse)
For context when the "digital era" started: it was newsworthy when a middle series of Dr House switched to digital.
Also: cinematic film is what keeps Kodak alive.
This reminds me of an episode (the pilot) of House, MD. The full script is here [1]. The excerpt:
> In a typical case, if you don't cook pork well enough, you digest live tapeworm larvae. They've got these little hooks, they grab onto your bowel, they live, they grow up, they reproduce. Reproduce? There's only one lesion, and it's nowhere near her bowel. That's because this is not a typical case.
New professionals always expect things to be similar to what they studied. What they learn: the books and lectures often covered the "most common" situations, but all those edge cases and weird scenarios come up on a daily basis.
[1]: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=house-md&episode=s01e01
And a House episode
I believe that this is a common trope in medical dramas. While I'm unaware of how often it is actually done, I know that I have seen it done in multiple episodes of House, or ER, etc, etc.
House MD had an episode about this condition in 2007: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0917153/
You would think a friend might mention it - I would think a close friend must notice a complete lack of pain response.
I can't find the condition name in the article but I remember a House MD episode (3x14) that the patient had this condition and it was called CIPA (Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain_with_anhidrosis
This. Its similar to watching a tv show about something you personally know very well. The errors, generalizations, narrative and even the facts can be so far off you hope no one takes it serious. But people who do not know the subject matter take the presentation of it as fact.
Imagine how many doctors cringe watching E.R. or House.
News is this, but for real life events.
I've only watched a few episodes, but isn't house just medical mcguffin of the week? Every episode I've seen has certainly followed that arc, it's always some exceedingly rare malady that only house is smart enough to diagnose.
Find a TV show where the protagonist is always right, like House. It will teach you all you need to know, and provide a healthy role model.
I used to enjoy the medical TV series House with Hugh Laurie. The producers had as his dictum, "Everybody Lies" and his role as diagnostician was to work out who was lying, usually leading to a cure. A good manager is a good diagnostician for his or her organisation, able to take conflicting imperfect information and tease out the lies (or incorrect information)
A good leader is able to create a safe space where most people will release their defensive positions and many of the most intractable lies will fall apart.
But we all do lie, most often to ourselves, and not always with evil intent
But I fear the attitude that says "we expect you not to lie (withhold information, fail to speak out) because to do so will hurt the organisation, and you should have the best interests of the organisation / team at heart
Humans don't work like that.
This is a beautiful comment - thanks for sharing.
FWIW I have not watched House, but that episode is referencing an actual technique developed by V.S. Ramachandran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_box). His book Phantoms of the Brain is fascinating and you may be interested in reading it (even though you are just deploying his work as a metaphor here).
This research continues to leave me extremely hopeful.
After reading a similar report a few months ago, I decided to roll the dice and put aside my fears of more serious drugs to see if this could work for me.
Let me tell you. MDMA delivered. Here's an anecdotal stream of consciousness about it.
I am unsure whether the thing I experienced is something that only MDMA can provide, or if it is something that is normal in healthy people but is otherwise unobtainable in people such as myself. In the context of PTSD the phenomenon typically sought and described is something along the lines of "zoom out, see yourself, forgive yourself". It does this.
There's an episode of House involving a war vet who lost his hand while clenching his fist in a moment of trauma. The ghost of his severed hand remained alive in his mind, clenching, for every day of his life thereafter. Finally, House sets up an experiment with a mirror in a box that creates an illusion that his lost hand is intact. The man's mind, sufficiently convinced that this new reality is plausible, allows him to unclench his haunted fist, for the first time. The man breaks down in a wave of profound gratitude. I am weeping as I write this, so familiar is the sensation of existential tension and release.
That is the most apt metaphor I can conjure for the emotional experience MDMA provides. You just... let go. Finally. With ease. A task which was previously not merely impossible, but flatly inconceivable.
Except letting go isn't about whether you're holding a foreign object or not. It's more like a transition between two states – two shapes the hand can be in. Closed to open. Imagine having no nerves, no muscles, no sensation that would let you direct your hand from the shape it is in now, to this hypothetical other shape it could take. Similarly, you go from one mental model of the world to another. And so you have to have an idea of what this other place is.
In the past, I've described to my therapist the struggle of imagining this place and unclenching, emotionally, as being asked to draw an animal you've never seen. "Paint me a zarnur", I say. Well.. how many legs does it have? Is it a mammal? Eyes? Color? Size? There's no sensible place to get started that isn't just firing birdshot into the dark. It is a special helplessness borne in the void of total disconnection from what your goal might be.
Emotional forgiveness is an animal you can't draw, because the door that blocks your sight of him is too heavy for you to move on your own. When I took MDMA, it was with the pretense that god damnit, if I can't open that door with my mind, with all my effort, in my current state, then maybe we bulldoze it open. And maybe it's only open an inch, and I get a peek at a single hair. And maybe it's only open for a moment, and my glance is fleeting.
And maybe it kills me. Fine. We've gotta try.
Because if it works, it would be something. The beginning of some north star, from which I might be able to plant myself and work outwards, where previously there was no ground beneath me.
And that's what happened. For five hours on one night, I felt like a version of myself that not only might be worthy of love and acceptance from other humans, but a version of my self that was inarguably worthy.
That evening remains the only blip of signal in an otherwise empty transmission log. I don't say that to be morbid – I say it with profound gratitude. It went from zero to one. That's huge.
My biggest regret? That I didn't have a voice recorder. I remember snippets of conversation, but four hours of mental rearchitecture is not easily recalled with much fidelity by an amateur.
Nevertheless, the emotion, the sensation, was so real and so profound that I could never doubt it. Perception is reality, here, and I saw to my satisfaction that the place I wanted to go, the state where one hopes to finally be at rest, certainly exists.
If you want to buy runway for hope, that's about as good as it gets.
Your mileage may vary, of course. I was extremely fortunate that I have a group of friends whom I've known nearly a decade, lived with, grown up with, and trust fully happen to also be experts in administering such an experience, so it was about as good as I could have gotten. I feel, having been through it, that this is a fairly safe thing to attempt. But do take precautions. Rollsafe[1] appears to be an authority in this space.
[1]https://rollsafe.org/
One thing that bugs me is that (guesstimate) 1/3 of Hollywood stars are Australian (or Kiwi), but they always (have to) do US accents in their movies. And about 90% of the time there's actually an Australian character in a US movie/series they get a US actor to play the Australian! And it sounds so very fake, though not to people in the US evidently. Both of these I find hard to watch.
It's no better with Brits. I never could watch House after loving Blackadder, and The Walking Dead is so weird after being a huge fan of This Life. (i.e. the lead character in both are English)
A lot of the removed U.S. content, is usually accessible in other countries (and vice-versa in some cases). I find more blockbuster movies when I am in Europe can be accessed via Netflix than in the U.S. (e.g. Black Hawk Down, House, Brooklyn 99, Lethal Weapon, Mad Max, Star Wars VII etc). There are a couple of search engines specific to find the right region.
Netflix from my understanding can pay less upfront for rights to well known movies outside the U.S. (https://flixed.io/newest-best-netflix-movies/).
The problem with Netflix from a non-U.S. region viewer is its lackluster offering of native language movies.
> . In 1949, a researcher named Fred R. Klenner claimed to have found that high doses of vitamin-C could ward off the virus.
This was referenced in an episode of the tv show House
> the mass global uptake afterwards have almost rendered the virus extinct.
This is one of the things India (and from what I've heard, Pakistan) did really well. Every year around vaccination time (there used to be two doses taken around a month apart) there used to be almost propaganda like mass advertisements, camps, etc. When I was a kid I knew of a handful of older people that had polio; a kid born today is unlikely to meet someone with polio. Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(
there was a House episode where someone was diagnosed with naphthalene poisoning due to termites in the walls. so following occams beliefs, we could also have lots of termites in space too. ;-)
Man, this is literally my Plex library. <15 shows that I ever enjoy watching (ATHF, Mr Robot, The Wire, Sopranos, GoT, Squidbillies, House, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, Buffy, Futurama to be exact.) They still take up a full 1.5TB because I like to get the highest quality rips possible.
Some shows like House I have edited personally to create 'binge versions,' with the intro and outro cut out, with only special episodes that have special endings or intros included. Saves a good chunk of time with House and The Wire when I rewatch them. I wish a lot of other people did this as well. Instead groups stick to following scene rules that leave us with ugly formats, poor management and naming schemes and more. They were created for a different era.
Maybe I'll try to put it out there.
I can’t emphasize this more. The first show I watched without subtitles (CC) was Dr House. I watched 6 seasons and it was painful as hell but after watching 100s of episodes it starts becoming easier.
Also, I would write every single word I did not understand and google it.
Right; it's like someone has watched too many episodes of House and thinks that's how doctors are/should be.
This was like a real life episode of Dr. House MD
Is there any risk of the thinner blood leaving you predisposed to complications in the event of an unrelated traumatic injury?
..analagous to how Amber died in season 4 of House?
This question just came after when I was watching House M.D. episodes :)
Question is right, I did not understand other commenters saying that it started with a false premise. People lie, people cheat, people kill and they corrupt. That is why we have police, that is why we have prisons, etc.
My personal solution is to interact with as less people as I can in my daily life. I have friends which I know and chose to be my friends; other than that, although I know not everyone is a bad person; I choose to interact as minimum as possible.
> who are the heroes in american TV and movies? The rebel against authority, the one that breaks the rules. Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, House
All of these heroes cooperated with close friends, colleagues, and other people in order to solve problems and achieve goals.
The difference is not individualism vs. cooperation. The difference is cooperation based on the voluntary choices of individuals, as needed to accomplish goals, vs. cooperation dictated from the top by someone's ideology.
The American culture values individualism...and also has a strong "you can't tell me what to do!" reaction to social pressure. If those points are connected, I can easily see too much individualism interfering with cooperation even if the base ideas are not in conflict.
Evidence: who are the heroes in american TV and movies? The rebel against authority, the one that breaks the rules. Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, House, I could go on and on. We celebrate the idea of something we actively argue against in daily life.
There's also some weird connection between extremes of claiming to value individualism and idolizing authoritarianism that I won't claim to understand, so I could be completely wrong on all of this. I'm not positive that extremes of individualism are a death knell for cooperation...but I don't find the idea unlikely either.
>Except, those things are purposely portrayed as bad.
Many lolicon manga do the same. Why is whether or not it is portrayed as bad the problem? Many are actually made interesting by portraying the siuation as morally ambiguous, such as in popular television shows.
>nowhere near as common and lustful as sexual and emotional abuse of individuals, young or not.
Why is that relevant?
>Normalization in causation to action requires that the actions already be happening and already be acceptable to some extent
Murder, violence, and war already happen, and war is acceptable (to most, though not I) - yet we have people who complain that violent videogames "normalise" violent beahviour. You haven't really provided evidence that (i) this "normalisation" is bad (beacuse this would be implying that it's bad for people to think or have opinions in a certain way) (ii) this "normalisation" has any effect upon the incidence of violent crimes, sexual or not.
>Again, distopian, which is very differnt from your own culture or beliefs.
Sherlock and House probably "normalises" drug use, even though it's set in present conditions. There are probably other examples of people doing bad things that are portrayed in media, but I'm not well versed enough in popular culture to give examples. I'm still not so sure why being dystopic has any effect or not. Would it follow that if lolicon TV/manga/art was set in a dystopic universe like the Hunger Games, it would be fine for you?
Or if the argument is based on being realistic, what is there to say of the many non-realistic things that happen in lolicon TV/manga/art, and indeed the unrealistic body proportions? Many, many anime are set with large towering robots controlled by little girls, for example.
Finally, many lolicon manga portray what is happening in a sad or twisted light, similar to how Breaking Bad shows Walt's activity, for example. There is one manga in which a girl is violently raped by a man claiming to check radiation levels in her house, for example. And this is of course ignoring the fact that many people are attracted to the material beacuse it is taboo in the first place, which is what's behind many kinks you or I would consider normal. As such, they don't want to make it real.
Imagine if docs could be rejected from a new job because they failed to repeat the obscure diagnosis that was featured on the last episode of House, that really has nothing at all to do with the job they wanted to do.
Imagine if lawyers could be rejected for not being able to explain the minority opinion in Foobar v. Bazquux, which again, has absolutely nothing to do with their expected duties as prosecutor of poor people with small amounts of marijuana.
Imagine if real engineers were asked to build a suspension bridge out of silly putty, table salt, and carbon fiber.
The interviewees are simply doing their jobs, which is to analyze a problem and implement the most cost-effective solution. The interviewers are the ones causing the problem. Granted, it isn't always because they are non-technical people trying to gauge the value of skills they don't understand. A lot of times, it is because the interviewer is a tech person that still can't effectively gauge the value of skills they do understand, and also wants to look clever in front of a stranger, subtly discriminate to preserve "culture", and do the same stuff to others that had been previously done to them in their interviews.
there was even an episode of house where the cause was gold poisoning.
This feels like an episode of House MD.
I don't understand. Aren't biopsies of the brain possible? I still remember that episode of House MD, Euphoria.
From an episode of "House", why not expand the pool of donors by accepting organs from old people or otherwise more marginal organs? If it's a matter of life & death for the recipient, wouldn't a more marginal organ be better than none?
The later season hints at the antagonist being more than that and possibly alludes to some interesting ideas that I won't spoil for other readers.
Yes, the protagonist is smug and intelligent but that's common in a lot of TV shows for a good reason. Would you watch Suits if the character is an inept lawyer? Or House if the doctor is a mediocre doctor doing routine checkups?
And besides, I'd say that most programmers do feel a bit smug in the same sense about your average person clueless about technology.
I agree - Netflix is becoming synonymous with binge watching. I've gotten months and months of value out of Netflix with Breaking Bad, Lost, The Office, The X-Files, House, etc... If I had to do the research required to get similar satisfaction out of the same number of hours of movie viewing? Forget it.
Wasn't there a House episode where he debunks exactly this?
I would give up those few titles if that means getting access to the US (or even Canadian) Netflix library. It's also important to mention that those TV series are actually aired on TV in the United States, here in the Netherlands we have to hope that some TV picks up the rights in a few years (instead of airing endless Bones/CSI/House reruns) if it's not on Netflix.
Episode about how unrealistic House is was one of the high points of the later Scrubs seasons.
Well there is like 30 seconds from House TV series, so I guess they can claim the whole video (9:57:33) be blocked in US.
Golf instructors and diving coaches would probably agree with you. And Dr. Gregory House, if you have all of the episodes memorized.
This is actually a decent route for a kind of supplementary education: it would be pretty valuable to expose a broad audience to the way scientists/engineers really think about problems—and the opportunity is generally wasted, preferring to convey that scientists/engineers just have some magical ability that the audience does not.
It's a little difficult to say exactly what it is that could be communicated, but I guess I'd call it 'intuition'; and the value of trying to convey it in a movie is that if you tell the average person, "I'm now going to give you some examples of how scientists think about things"—they're going to become nervous and less efficient at absorbing the info.
I was recently impressed by "Ex Machina" for being 'plausable-ish' and showing realistic, intelligent thought processes, as an example. The t.v. show "House" is also sometimes good about it.
One of the best TED talks, in my opinion, was given by Vilayanur Ramachandran and it touches on this topic. It's a great presentation loaded with tidbits about how the brain works. Found here: https://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind
House (tv show) had an episode on this illusion as well, where House broke into an amputee's house, tied him up, and used the illusion to stop the amputee's phantom pain in his "hand".
Recently when watching stuff on Netflix I found myself amazed at how ridiculously orange and teal movies were getting. Even the pilot episode of House was ridiculously Orange'n'Teal.
Then I twigged it was because I was running F.Lux.
"To my knowledge, no child grows up “playing doctor” and still believes as a teenager (or even as a college student) that an actual medical practice resembles that activity. Likewise, no one has a fully functional toy legal system to play with as a child, and as a result goes into law. On the other hand, “adult” programming, seen from afar, is enough like child-programming to set the computer-enthusiast child up for just this kind of exceptionally cruel bait-and-switch."
No, but they do see things like "House MD", "ER","The practice" etc... , which resembles the actual medical or legal profession as much as movie "hacking" resembles computer programming.
Besides, I've never known a child to actually see "adult" programming - unless one of your parents is working from home, most "adult" programming happens in a corporate setting. In the same way I've never known a child to see "adult" psychology, or other professions which are practiced in closed environments.
"Virtually every profession has a concept of professional equipment"
True, but so do programmers. The idea that professional equipment has to be hardware (or for that matter a keyboard) is rather false.
Professional writers use the same hardware as amateur writers - pen, paper, computer . But they might have better word processing software.
And I'm not sure about others, but the hardware I use for programming is much different then what an amateur computer user might have- a lot more memory (to run those IDEs, databases, memory cache etc...) , two or more screens , and software that are unlikely to be used by non professionals (Jetbrains IDE, Beyond compare, virtual machines) etc..
Also - there are keyboards designed for faster typing, from my experience they just not very useful (programming rarely requires fast typing in my experience, better googling would be a thousand times more useful).
Remember FAST: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAST_(stroke)
First 3 minutes of the house episode Fetal Position (S3 E17) demonstrate it.
IOW, people imagine daily life in medicine to be like an episode of House, but in reality it's closer to that of a well-paid social worker.
That your parents and the parent commenter react in this way ("it's obvious") is by design of the author of the piece and the author of House.
I can watch an episode of House and anticipate "they obviously have lupus", which makes me feel intelligent and satisfied even though I can see they are planting obvious clues from the very start which a diagnostician would be mind-numbingly stupid to ignore.
The same with the headline of this article. It's designed that way. In reality, you don't get to read the headline or watch the episode before making a clinical decision.
Regarding House: in mid-series episodes, I believe they occasionally subvert this by planting clues for the wrong thing. At least, I enjoyed being wrong in those episodes.
I think I've seen this House episode before. Spoiler alert: The chick dies in the end.
Seriously though, with these new types of procedures I feel like we need another checkbox next to the organ donor one that says: "Try risky medical procedures if the attending doctor honestly thinks it gives me a better chance of living with no permanent brain damage when compared to conventional treatment." Or probably something a little more succinct.
A site with a medical review by a doctor of every "House" episode: http://www.politedissent.com/house_pd.html
I think the parent's point is that, while rare in practice, well-qualified physicians should easily identify the unusual situation and propose the alternate hypothesis.
As an aside, this fact was of great annoyance to me when I was younger, as the child of two pathologists trying to watch the tv show House. If you're not familiar, it's a medical mystery show with a genius misanthrope doctor named House who diagnoses people with extremely rare diseases, almost killing them in the process.
It was a regular occurrence for one of my parents to walk through the room while I was watching the show, in the first 5 minutes, and throw out, "they obviously have x (vasculitis, chimerism, etc.)," thus ruining the rest of the episode for me. Of course, they never actually watched the show, since from their perspective it was just an incompetent medical team torturing some patient.
The broadcasters aren't monopolies, not in an age where the broadcast medium itself (as distinct from the content) is increasingly irrelevant. Only 7% of households rely on over-the-air TV: https://www.ce.org/News/News-Releases/Press-Releases/2013-Press-Releases/Only-Seven-Percent-of-TV-Households-Rely-on-Over-t.aspx.
The networks continue to matter because they offer products that people want to buy (movies and TV shows). These products are so compelling, that very few people have managed to offer compelling alternatives. E.g. people don't just want a doctor show, they want "House." They don't just want a sitcom, they want "How I Met Your Mother." It's not "innovation" to simply figure out new ways to take popular products and distribute them to consumers without paying the creators.
I applaud Netflix and Amazon for going down the path of real competition. Shows like "House of Cards" and "Alpha House" are rare alternatives to the media offered by established companies that actually receive good critical and audience reception.
I like the idea of net neutrality conceptually, but the ulterior motives of its proponents bugs me. It strikes me as just a way for the Youtubes and Netflixes of the world to get a bigger piece of the pie for themselves.
Consider the basic streaming transaction: consumer tunes in to watch an episode of their favorite show on some streaming service. Several companies are involved in the transaction: the streaming service, the broadband provider, and the content company that made the show. But the consumer doesn't really care about any of that, he's willing to pay $X for the experience of watching that episode.
How that $X is split up amongst the companies in play is the subject of a lot of legal wrangling. Each party has an incentive to try and turn the contributions of the other parties into a commodity. The streaming service and the broadband provider have an interest in weaker copyright protections, so the content company has less leverage. The streaming service and the content company have an interest in net neutrality, because that prevents broadband companies from differentiating their services from each other, and forces them to compete only as "dumb pipes."
It's not clear what the "proper" division of that $X should be. Arguably the content creation is the least fungible from the consumer's point of view. If they want to watch "House" that's what they want, not some substitute. The broadband provision is arguably the most technically complicated and the one that involves the greatest capital expenditure. Distribution is, in my opinion, relatively simple. Computing power and commercial bandwidth are commodities thanks to AWS and the like. So all that differentiates Netflix from Hulu from Youtube is the software. The software isn't easy per se, but it's easier than making a blockbuster movie or building a fiber network. That's why streaming sites are a dime a dozen but it takes the likes of Amazon or Netflix to even attempt to compete with NBC, etc, in developing AAA content.
That's almost certainly why Netflix is getting into the content business, and why Youtube has always been in the content business (through user generated content). That's what's hardest to turn into a commodity.
Wait, I thought doctors were supposed to break into their patients' houses without permission in order to search for clues as to how they got sick!
This undermines everything I learned about medicine from the TV show, House.
I call it the House method :)
You bring a detailed problem and break it down, and talk about it to someone else (who often isn't qualified to answer your questions due to knowledge/time constraints) - and in doing so - resolve the problem by challenging one's own assumptions.
This was effectively how every House episode was resolved.
I have to know: What do those Americans who only know him as House think when they see his earlier stuff? Is it a bit of a mind blow?
While people are recommending stuff, yes watch J & W, and Fry and Laurie's comedy shows, both are brilliant, but do not miss Blackadder. (Well, skip season 1 until and if you become a hard core fan as even us UK fans find that one a bit hard going.) Worth watching S2,3,4 as not only are these two in it, but you're going to see Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean and Jonny English) at his arguably best, and many other brilliant UK comic actors. (Actually, IIRC, S3 and S4 are the ones that bring him to the fore. In fact Im not sure he was in S2 at all. Cant remember.... Im old!!!!) Blackadder S4 is truly an awesome comedy series. Its worth watching fully and properly just to see how they ended it. Do not skip the series for the ending, you will ruin its power. Let it build up, then tear you to pieces.
Personally speaking is cracked me up when House first started and the US treated him like a proper normal actor, while we in the UK knew his comic roles. But, brilliant for Hugh as he could almost start a new career as a serious proper actor with out the "baggage" of comedy. You guys, if you haven't already, now have the sheer delight of checking out his back catalogue.
I was going to add some YouTube links, but as I was going through the site looking for some gems, I realised I would end up adding so many links I would look like an automated spammer. So, you know, hit YouTube, search, and loss a few (un)productive hours laughing :)
Oh and thank you America for giving him a chance to be a proper actor. I don't think it would have happened in the UK. Type-casting and all that.
A categorization in "running", "on hiatus" (e.g.: Community) or "finished" (e.g.: House) would be nice.
Also: a calendar and feature to semi-personalize it, by simply using cookies to store series "to watch". Merge both for a semi-personalized calendar.
Speaking of "Episodes", this series is missing ;-)
In the upcoming House movie, they find out that every disease is Lupus.
To answer the question: "wtf just happened."
If you have ever seen the TV show "House" [1] its the part where each doctor makes a different diagnosis and Dr. House keeps trying to fit all the pieces together to get to the real issue.
Clearly Color is in a state of transition, I know of no company with an absent CEO, and no COO, that are stable. The tech "press" is in a feeding frenzy trying to be the first to 'diagnose' the cause and the eventual effect. Apparently its a solid bullet point in one's blogume' to say "I broke the <company> story."
[1] The TV series House as written up by Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(TV_series)
Wow, that is a beautiful design :)
I wrote something similar for http://giby.tv, though it's not really a core feature for me and it doesn't recognize geographical restrictions, which seems to be a primary motivation for you guys.
You guys make it look easy, but I think there are a lot of subtle gotchas that others might not realize about this sort of TV data, for example:
Different sources of data (Netflix, Wikipedia, Network sites, iTunes, etc) often disagree about what's correct, and there isn't really an easily accessible canonical source. Sometimes an episode will release weeks earlier in one country than another (e.x. Fox recently delayed a new episode of House, despite it airing weeks earlier on another network in another country). Sometimes iTunes will just give completely incorrect information about dates.
Lots of series names are reused by remakes. String matching by series name will often lead to mismatching, for example, the 1961 series of 'The Defenders' with the 2010 series of the same name. Or the US version of The Office with the UK. Sometimes sources will disambiguate for you and append something like (US) or (UK) at the end. Sometimes they only carry one version and don't bother.
Sometimes a series will rename itself after airing a few episodes/seasons, like 'Gold Rush Alaska' -> 'Gold Rush' after the first season. Not all content providers will have the new name.
And episode titles are even worse. If you thought an episode had a single name that everyone always agreed on, you would be sorely mistaken.
Anyway, if you're interested in this sort of thing you might also be interested in tracking new episodes of tv shows at http://giby.tv, or finding links for specific episodes i.e. http://giby.tv/series/House or http://giby.tv/series/The%20Office%20(US) :)
Paul Hogan hammed up his Australian accent.
One of the best examples of a real Australian accent I've heard on American television is Dr. Chase [Jesse Spencer] from House, who is a real Australian and did not ham it up for an American audience. (Oddly though, the man who played his father in one episode had possibly the most embarrassingly bad fake Australian accent ever. Surprised Spencer didn't kick his arse during filming.)
Sorry, but I couldn't resist mentioning House. One of the episodes had similar situations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_Ever_Change_(House)
Since in there they say patient has "Nephroptosis, also known as 'Floating Kidney'", which is a listed medical condition, conditions like OP should not be uncommon.
There's even been House episodes about this condition. It's not exactly obscure.
Posner's article reminds me of a nice polemic in season 2 of _House M.D._ about the abuse of pharmaceutical patents (by way of counter-example). They take a drug they know works, tack on a vitamin molecule, patent it, and stop manufacturing / marketing its predecessor. Speaking as someone who has worked in Pharmaceutical marketing (I developed mobile sales tools), this seems pretty accurate.
Meanwhile, if you look at how difficult it was for the concept of usability to break into the mainstream (it essentially required Microsoft's persistent application of market power to popularize ideas borrowed from Apple/Xerox/et al. and Xerox tossed a lot of money and time at PARC just for starters).
If patent law were an easy problem to solve, it would have been solved.
Every time I watch an episode of House or read a story like this I think "Why isn't there an expert system for diagnostics". The notion of a person being able to manage such vasts amount of knowledge seems ridiculous and cost-ineffective.
If you could enter a bunch of positive and negative statements together with various medical records, and have the computer being able to ask additional queries, it seems a good system would be able to narrow down a list substantially. It would also side-step a lot of cognitive problems we humans face.
Now, I'm sure there are systems like this but they probably just aren't sophisticated , widespread enough or don't have large enough database. Or have they simply not yet reached widespread use because they cost too much, what's holding them back?
* Found this article on the topic: http://www.informationweek.com/news/healthcare/clinical-systems/229900102
Matt,
I hope you are able to take at least some comfort from actually knowing the cause of your son's illness. Some people aren't so lucky.
I had my own medical struggle while in the middle of grad school. Mid October a few years ago, I contracted a rather nasty respiratory infection. Among other things, I was severely fatigued and needed to sleep for extended amounts of time (think 12+ hours a day). The excessive sleeping didn't worry me while I was busy hacking and coughing, but when the respiratory symptoms had gone away a couple weeks later, I was still left with the extreme fatigue and hypersomnia.
Normally, I'm not one to run to a doctor at the slightest sign of any illness, but I began to get worried a week or so after the acute infection passed and I was still sleeping a minimum of 12+ hours a day. (I should emphasize, too, this really was a minimum, not an average -- I'd typically wake up around 8 am, go to class and do other things until around 2 or 3, come home and fall asleep around 4 PM and wake up and do it again the next day. One weekend, I think I was awake for a total of about 8 hours over the two days.)
I went through the usual struggle anyone who has anything that's at least mildly rare goes through, and, after visiting a sleep neurologist, I got my diagnosis: post-infectious idiopathic hypersomnia. I then knew this was a problem that was going to take months or years to resolve, and, for a while, I thought my life was effectively over.
But, the real kick in the teeth was that word, "idiopathic." There's a great line on an episode of House where one of the fellows suggests a diagnosis of idiopathic something-or-other, and House responds "'idiopathic,' from the Latin meaning we're idiots because we can't figure it out." So, there I was, with a diagnosis that amounted to "you sleep a lot and we don't know why," and the only treatment available was basically stimulants to treat the symptoms (which didn't work well at all -- I slept less, but I was walking around like a zombie by early afternoon every day).
Looking back, I consider myself lucky that it happened while I was in school, since I could have easily found myself unemployed and broke if I were in less flexible circumstances at the time. I'm also quite lucky that it resolved itself within about 9 months. I effectively lost a semester of grad school that I had to make up later, but I recovered, and it should never recur.
I don't know if what I had is what would be considered a "rare" disease by the strict definition, but it's rare enough that your average primary care physician might not ever see a case in his or her life, and a sleep specialist might see a handful. It's rare enough that there don't seem to be any studies or research available on the condition, on top of the obvious difficulties of studying people who effectively have to sleep 1/2-3/4 of the day.
So, back to my original point: my best wishes to you and your son, of course, but please take comfort in the fact you know exactly what is wrong.
Kudos to the mother and father for not giving up and to figure out the medical mystery, it read like a House episode with the various diagnoses then you realize that it's real life, not a TV plot. I truly believe that future technological advancements have an obligation to serve humankind for the better and that real progress is made though breakthrough medical and scientific breakthroughs.
he's not actually accomplished anything worth being smug about... And Hugh Laurie was always the talent in their double-act.
Stephen Fry has accomplished plenty, and (not to talk the man down) I suspect has done a lot more that will stand the test of time than Laurie has. A few to start:
Last Chance To See (documentary about endangered animals)
Stephen Fry in America
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
Fry's Planet Word
I suspect they will all be of more interest to historians in 100 years time than multiple seasons of House.
Sounds like an episode of House.
The biggest problem in France is the lake of legal offers for anything but music, and this won't change soon for several reasons:
-2€ for an episode of house, SD, for 48 hours, up to 5€ for a movie for 48 hours but still they are complaining about the situation and would like to change the prices up to 8€/SDmovie for 48h http://www.journaldugeek.com/2012/03/28/vod-des-fims-plus-chers-en-france-voulus-par-les-syndicats/
-Legally you need to wait 3 years after the theater release to put a movie on vod. Why it won't change ? Because canal+ a private channel who broadcast movies only 10 month after their release is also the main financial contributor of french productions. http://www.numerama.com/magazine/22024-l-effort-minimal-de-canal-pour-reviser-la-chronologie-des-medias.html
There was a House episode where a prisoner had a low-quality tattoo containing too much iron (or something). The prisoner went into the MRI and the experience was excruciating.
Not sure if there's any grain of truth to that or not. It was Hollywood.
You are so very wrong. Hardly any marketing is done for US shows abroad. You could easily miss the premiere of a new season if you weren't paying close attention.
US shows are thrown on the air mostly as filler, with some rare exceptions they are not the big moneymakers for non-US stations. Although not as carelessly as in the days before DVD box sets and mass piracy, when a episodes could be shown in the wrong order, series just disappear from the schedule unannounced for months, or stay on the shelve for years.
But they will still happily announce a series as "the new hit series from the US", knowing full well that the show has already been cancelled and they only have the 13 episodes to air... This is also largely because US shows are sold as package deals. If you want to buy House for your local market, you also have to buy the rights to crappy series you know nobody will watch, at least not on your station. So even if there is a potential audience for those series, they will barely get a chance to watch the series, since it will be programmed at some ungodly hour.
The Dutch broadcasters managed to ruin many shows like for instance Six Feet Under or Battlestar Galactica that way. Yeah, lots of people still saw them, but either pirated or on DVD. Following them on television was near impossible.
It's a business-model that prefers to destroy a popular product in order to maintain an artificial scarcity rather than to sell it directly to the consumers at reasonable price.
Maintaining this model ensures Hulu is never going to be available outside the US, unless the whole local broadcast market completely collapses.
Because there is more money to be made in ensuring that a show does not reach its audience. That's how fucked up the system is.
You're right on with identifying the number one problem I knew I would face when Cheekswab was even just a thought in my mind: how do I make people care? It's still something I think about constantly, both when I'm conducting a drive or staring at my computer.
I hear what you're saying when it comes to the photo of the patient/baby, but the number one thing I didn't like about some of the existing sites out there is that they read like a brochure. The reason why people donated for Amit Gupta is because even if they didn't know him face-to-face, they felt some sort of personal connection to him via his products or technical notoriety or positive reputation or whatever. Maybe even the bonds of being a technical guy in a technical industry. I distinctly wanted to avoid having to go the route of finding a stock image of a bald chemotherapy patient or teary mother because I feel like it's manufacturing sentimentality. We're surrounded by manufactured sentimentality concerning cancer. Turn on any episode of House and you'll see what I mean.
I feel like too much of that detracts from the cause, because cancer, sickness and bone marrow transplants are real. They happen to real people, with real families who have no idea what to do or where to turn. I do share my personal story with cancer on the "Founders Story" page, but admittedly it's (very) long and not everyone will take the time to read it. But some do, and early feedback from many is that it helps them empathize in a way they've never done before. And there's no way for me to condense that story into three quick-hitting bullets on the homepage.
There very well may be nothing I or anyone else can write on a website to convince someone to donate marrow. There are way too many factors that I cannot foresee or control that will impact that decision. But if that person's life is ever touched by circumstances where a bone marrow donation is necessary, my hope for the website is that at least they'll already be aware that the cause exists and know where to find more information.
But your feedback about the homepage in general raises points that I will definitely consider.
I have some more ideas in the pipeline that I hope will help further personalize the cause. I've shot a video with a friend who recently got called in for a marrow donation. I've been in touch with an old classmate on Facebook who took part in a PBSC donation and met her donor. I'm convinced that it's these types of things that will create conviction and empathy in others, and I'm working on it.
That's not always the case, scenes of Slumdog millionaire (in the streets) were filmed purely with DSLR, same for the subway scenes of Black Swan. Not a feature film but the entire season 6 finale of House was exclusively shot on a 5D mkII, and a couple of small BBC series have been.
I appreciate that of course 'proper' digital cinema cameras are better, but this shows that DSLRs are very much competent, and they are only going to get better.
I'll second this.
From my personal experience, I occasionally try to see some stuff from the Youtube channels, but for one really good video there’s lots of stuff that really doesn’t appeal to me.
And I can’t really say nothing about Netflix, since it is not available in Portugal.
There is already lots of good independent production out there, amateur or professional. I just don’t know how and where to find it.
The solution, thus, is simple:
* Develop a boxee like setup box for around 50$/50€ with an internet connection;
* Distribute it around the world, no region locking whatsoever;
* Have a really good recommendation engine, based on social or whatever. It should allow you to input ‘titles’ that may not be available on the platform, but work as a ‘preference indicator’ (for example, ‘I like House and Battlestar Galactica’)
* It should allow for social subtitling, perhaps even with a reward system - for free;
* Charge 1€/1$ or less per paid TV episode, 2€ or less for film. Better yet, 10€/$ flatrate per device. But make the device still useful for anyone not willing to pay for that, with lots of properly selected free content;
* Commercials are acceptable: one brake per half an hour, not more than one minute : for non-paying customers.
This is not something terribly innovative (except for the recommendation system), but properly implemented it could be quite disruptive.
I honestly believe that technologies like Flatr will make this possible.
You have to lower the barriers to having people purchase content. There's a mental barrier which stops you from spending $1 to watch another episode of House. Even though you like House, and you'd like to watch another episode.
And for "free content," well, ads suck. Nobody likes ads. We don't like being forces to watch ads, before we watch content. People who buy ad space don't like you to be able to skip their ads. YouTube is trying to pitch "skippable ads". Still not close enough, I think.
If I watch Sherlock from the BBC and like it, I Flatr it. I think that model works. I'm not sure - but that's my hunch.
Humble Indie Bundle is another great example - but I don't think it works for broadcast video.
While not a "crime drama", Chimerism is also the main diagnosis in an episode of House: http://house.wikia.com/wiki/Cane_%26_Able
More than anything else, you're suffering from a lack of self-confidence.
Try to be really good at what you do, and use that knowledge to build your confidence and assertiveness. This is the subject of countless books, and several past threads on HN.
On a more interesting note, it's surprising/shocking to realize how far one can get with controlled arrogance. An archetypal character to study is the protagonist of the TV series 'House'. (But I'm not at all suggesting that you should behave like him!)
When I pirate content, it's for one of a few reasons:
* The content isn't available in the US yet. Being a big fan of British television, this is probably the biggest reason.
* I want to watch a TV show and the full series isn't available instantly on Netflix or Hulu. I don't bother with the hassle of mailing back DVDs anymore. I suspect this is really a ploy to get me to buy the DVDs. Sorry, but I'm not buying all 7 seasons of House for $15-$30 a season.
* My options are: 1) Pay and get something later, or 2) don't pay and get something now. This is why I don't buy shows off of iTunes.
Ultimately, I doubt my motivations are much different from most people who pirate that would otherwise be paying customers.
I have also heard, a number of times now, that a lot of smart people use drugs because it "makes people more interesting", which is probably code for "I numb my own brain to be able to strike a casual conversation". (My primary example would be having this as a direct quote by Christopher Hitchens. I seem to also recall that there was a House MD episode of a genius putting himself on a controlled substance to be a little more numb because he would otherwise scare away the girlfriend that he loved with his rambling mind.)
So yes, some people might be searching for a thrill because what they are supposed to do does not deliver that. But others just really want to "be normal" and drugs are a quick way to get there, strangely.
The tech/work behind Avatar is far more expensive then Toy Story. There are plenty of poor quality animation that pop up in films by major studios. And there are a number of quality cg animation by students for example http://vimeo.com/1470875 Avatar is really an edge case, majority of the shows on Hulu don't cost that much. For example: http://philipbloom.net/2010/04/10/house-season-finale-shot-entirely-with-canon-5dmkii/
The finale of a popular show was shot using the Canon 5Dmkii. A camera many amateurs are using to capture their content. There are some stories that are best told with the big tech and budget of major studios, but like I mentioned, in most cases, the cost of promotion and over paying for hyped talent is keeping everything they do very expensive.
I would love to watch films/tv episodes on my kindle this way. Although half of the enjoyment is in watching an actor perform - I find it a struggle to spend any significant time watching television. Whereas, I could consume an episode fairly quickly in this format.
Although I'm sure a lot would be lost in translation. Could you imagine watching Scrubs in this format? Or House?
I really liked Hulu when it was two or three ads per episode. Now I get two ads at a time, and a 30 minute episode of The Simpsons contains 4-5 ad breaks. It bothers me more than just watching it on TV.
Edit: The House episode I'm watching has 6 ad breaks, each of those have 1 or 2 ads.
Greg House is just about the worst bug-fixer ever. Every episode is essentially a Depth First Search, in a situation in which that type of search maximizes pain and suffering.
"We have our first theory that isn't immediately awful, let's stop thinking and just try it out." Terrible advice in both computing and medicine.
[Edit: changed 'bug-finder' to 'bug-fixer', as pointed out by gilz.]
True! But then again i have an external HDD filled of sitcoms. That's how i think of storage space, as 10K seasons of House MD :-)
Yeah, Australia is actually where the friend of mine I mentioned is at. It's good to hear some of the times are improving, maybe the companies are finally catching on that the delays just drive people to download...
I think traditionally, the delays are due to contracts with local providers. So for example, a local Australian television station might negotiate for the rights to say, the tv show House, but they get a cheaper rate by waiting 6 months or more likely, Fox doesn't even give them the option of showing it sooner...
I have seen some 5D stuff that was pretty good and House used one for an episode. I think the Epic is going to be a big hit (size, 5K raw) and I expect the same of Scarlet.
> In Season 5, Episode 17 of House, a guy loses his inhibition which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says.
he became an engineer? :P
In Season 5, Episode 17 of House, a guy loses his inhibition which causes him to speak his mind having no control over what he says. Now if you watched this episode (or read the recap), I hope you would understand the difference between stating a comment because you take notice of those around you versus saying the first thing that comes to mind.
As noted in Paul Hoffman's recent book "King's Gambit", after his matches with both "Deep Blue" and "Deep Junior" Kasparov was exhausted:
"As with Deep Blue, he had once again let an encounter with a machine play games with his head. He had been obsessed with the idea that Deep Junior would never tire. 'The machine is never distracted by an argument with its mother," he told me, 'or a lack of sleep.'
And in the linked piece Kasparov alludes to the reported next approach IBM wants to take with Watson - support in medicine.
Kasparov's human reaction to his encounters with Watson's distant cousins brings up one obvious benefit in the use of technology like Watson for supporting medical decision-making - simply that such software will be less likely to miss something. Software is less likely to miss considering a diagnosis, ordering a crucial test, or following up on a finding - unlike the fallible 'I' who may have skipped a class in med school, or was up all night on call and just can't think straight, or am just occasionally more stupid than usual.
Diagnosis is the first thing people think of with technology like this, but in my opinion that's not the big problem Watson should tackle. Medical diagnosis in and of itself (dramatizations like the TV show 'House' notwithstanding), is not really that difficult 99% of the time. When you hear hoofbeats, you're very likely going to find horses and not zebras. A future Dr. Watson might occasionally be very helpful in pointing out very obscure (but uncommon) diagnoses. However, in my opinion the most helpful thing a Dr. Watson could provide is collecting, evaluating, and comparing evidence and outcomes as they are developed globally and locally (ie across broad swaths of medicine, but also within a single physician's own patient population), continuously educating the physician, and monitoring cases.
There is plenty of untapped medical data/evidence out there, but it's almost all hidden away in plain sight...text/natural language. I have to agree with Kasparov here, in that the primary advancement Watson represents was in moving farther down the path from syntax to semantics.
The House example is horrible. In the show rarely does house diagnose an illness thorough intellectual debugging. In most episodes House sits around and insults his team while they run tests and about 5 minutes from the end he out of nowhere has an epiphany (while talking to Wilson most of the time) which often has little to do with what tests the team ran and he solves the case.
Talking about that, I recently bought some DVDs and they had no English captions (I'm hearing impaired). I was incredibly pissed off, so I pirated them. Then, I was given House as a gift (TV Series) - lo and behold, no captions. sigh
Yea, and I also learned how to become a doctor by watching House and ER, fish for Alaskan crab by watching Deadliest Catch, and learned all about how to have relationships by closely studying Friends and Entourage!
So no, that episode of Top Gear does not bring up any "good points" to draw legitimate conclusions about the American South. All it shows is that if you insult the average person enough, they'll get pissed off enough to deliver a few minutes of good footage. Meanwhile, back here in reality (not in TV land) -- if you visited down South you'd find that, given a broad sampling, Southerners are far kinder and warmer than us from New England. (p.s. I'm not from the South).
It gives me great concern that we as Americans assume so much truth from our 30 minute highlight reels.
It's a demographics issue - all the 20-somethings I know follow shows, almost nobody does the whole "I just want to see what's on" thing anymore. There's a major shift in how people use TVs, and the new user mode supports intentional watching (as opposed to passive surfing).
This is supported by the rise of DVRs, allowing people to choose when they want to view their content without delving into the online realm of Hulu, Netflix, etc.
The problem right now is that none of the major online streamers have really good integration into any TV set. There also does not exist a good discovery system ("you like House? You might also like...") for anyone except Netflix, and they're more of a movie house than a television one.
No, existing remotes do this horribly. Modern Cable subscriptions come with 300+ channels. I don't want to have to hold down an arrow key for minutes looking for something. I don't want to have to memorize what damn channel is AMC HD.
GoogleTV lets me type-in three letters: AMC. I get the channel. I get YouTube videos for snippets from their latest shows. I can type in House and immediately see if it's playing on any of the two dozen channels it's syndicated on, grab some episodes from my network, watch videos online of it, and read the Wikipedia page.
Try using a computer without being able to type actual words. You're only allowed to use the on-screen keyboard provided by your OS and the arrow keys to move around and confirm keys to press. I'll check back in when you're pulling your hair out trying to do anything in 5 minutes. The common computer experiences are merging with your TV. Apple's remote doesn't do anything to solve it. It's simple for the sake of being simple, and it's worthless as a modern computing remote because of it.
Not to sound overtly obnoxious, but I drink so that I can tolerate things other people say when I spend time in a mixed social group.
An fictitious example would be an episode of House where a genius would robotrip because it was the only way he could tolerate his wife because of an intellectual barrier.
You mean except for The Sopranos, The Wire, The Shield, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, Dexter, BSG (gak), Friday Night Lights, Lost, Sons of Anarchy, Deadwood, Extras, Damages, Weeds (gak), House...
What's tricky about this comparison is that there's so much North American TV. A lot of it is ABC sitcoms, yes.
I am starting to think you believe Apple is making a lot of money on this particular piece of hardware. While that is classically Apple's shtick (sell hardware, lose money on software), I don't feel like the AppleTV falls into this category.
Specifically, it is just too cheap in comparison to the other devices that it is nearly identical to. Even the cost breakdowns of it are showing way too low margins from the raw parts (which were priced at almost $70). They really seem to be selling this product subsidized by iTunes and Netflix.
Therefore, an argument that "the adoption rate will be lower" seems kind of silly to me... about as weird as the people who claim "the (ads or paywall) on your website are causing you to lose readers": it doesn't matter how many people are using it, the question is whether it is making money.
So, if everyone in the world buys one because it supports getting moves for free via BitTorrent (are legal things distributed via BitTorrent? yes. more than two movies you'd ever want to watch? no. are you allowed to get a copy of House via BitTorrent if you pay for cable and hulu? no.) the product would be a complete failure: it would be more successful if no one owned it.
Louie is a surprisingly good show. I think I like it for the same reasons I like Breaking Bad and Mad Men, which is it sticks out from the rest of tv (American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Bones, House, Law and Order, etc.) I think what's nice is that its not just another over used trope, spin off, sequel, trilogy, reproduction--it's original. I especially enjoyed the episode with his mom. The authors arguments are really interesting and I tend to agree with her. There are flaws in everything though.
>Let's face it -- the movie that sums up the life of a corporate developer best is _Office Space_. The IT Crowd doesn't make it much more appealing. >Meanwhile, lawyers and doctors and biotech and all sorts of other fields where there are more women -- they get the awesome shows and movies.
That's it! We need the IT port of House!
Let's test the theory: do you watch the TV show "House"? If not, ask someone who does. It's selling points are that 1) House is not quite, but almost always a total dickhead. Everyone else on the show are more normal doctors (which is to say, they're dicks, but they aren't as dedicated to being so). 2) House almost always figures out what's happening (but of course never right away, 'cause it's a TV show) because as much of a dedicated dickhead he is, he's also dedicated to being right - he's a caricature of the "I'd rather be right than liked" adage.
House is far and away the most popular character on the show, because, while he is an unpleasant, malicious, manipulative sod, he wants to figure out the cure to the disease, and make the patient feel good by being well.
Well, he's also popular because he's Hugh FREAKING Laurie, but that's another story...
a system which would allow doctors to give a list of symptoms and have the most likely diagnostics listed by probability
Oh, good. Seems every episode of House I watched would contain a scene that began with, "Differential diagnosis for shoulder pain, go!" And then they'd spend ten minutes listing off all the diseases that could cause it. And I'd spend ten minutes thinking "You people really need a database."
I always wondered how they shot the season finale of House MD with a Canon 5D, now I know.
Summary: DSLRs can't autofocus when shooting video. On movie sets there are people hired to pull focus manually, so it's not a problem for Hollywood. You are better off using a camcorder or even a compact camera.
House, being fictitious, might be a bad example though. It's a TV show, so he needs a foil, how else are the viewers supposed to know what he's thinking? Besides, House is great because of the dialogue writing.
I'd say how good a programmer I am doesn't depend on whether I have company. Being a sole founder sucks because there's just so much to do and it's easy to feel overwhelmed, which means you can lose motivation very quickly, and there's nobody there to help you get fired up again.
> Someone really needs to make a crowdsourced website where you can post all your symptoms and test results, and then offer up a bounty to anyone who can figure out the correct diagnosis.
Just like that episode of House :) Except in the show most responses were things like "alien abduction" or "this thing my homoeopathic treatment cures". Oh yeah, and there were quite a number of these. How would you solve the swarm of crackpots problem?
I recently watched an episode of house (medical TV show) in which house used the (probably) well known mirror box method to relieve pain in the phantom limb of an amputee. That just reinforces the possibility that pain may be more of a psychosomatic symptom than we think.
This is from Wikipedia article for phantom limb http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
"One particularly novel treatment for phantom limb pain is the mirror box developed by Vilayanur Ramachandran and colleagues (Ramachandran, Rogers-Ramachandran & Cobb 1995). Through the use of artificial visual feedback it becomes possible for the patient to "move" the phantom limb, and to unclench it from potentially painful positions. Repeated training in some subjects has led to long-term improvement, and in one exceptional case, even to the complete elimination of the phantom limb between the hand and the shoulder (so that the phantom hand was dangling from the shoulder)."
Yes. Several. (And I, of course, shouted, "It's not lupus. It's never lupus!") Seriously though, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis were some of the early diagnoses. Autoimmune stuff often fits the bill in these complex, mult-symptom cases. That's why it (and a few other diseases) make an appearance on almost every episode of House as a possible diagnosis.
I'm a bit creeped out by the real-life explanation, if only becasue I JUST finished watching an episode of "House" where the same thing happens. Apparently this is a theme of late.
The rule of thumb I use for I/E orientation is does that person get energized around other people...
In social situations, I often find interaction tiring. The one exception for me is highly intellectually stimulating conversation. It doesn't necessarily have to be anything deep; it could be witty repartee or even trading quotes from favorite movies. Though the latter seems juvenile, something about the act of recall feels extremely rewarding and rejuvenating.
A close friend of mine calls it "mental sex," a phrase she apparently borrowed from the popular television show House.
Funny, last night's episode of House was about exactly this, and was one of the best episodes I've seen.
Ouch. $2 an episode would be harsh for me.
Our cable bill is like, $80 and that includes internet. So maybe $40 of that is for TV.
And I watch a bunch of different shows. CSI x 3, Law and Order, Bones, House, NCIS, Fringe, The Mentalist, Psych, Criminal Minds, Numbers, Law and Order, Lie to Me.
At $2 a show, per week, that'd set me back.. about $110 a month!
Far more than I pay for cable right now.
I'm that guy too. I hate TV.
Except heroes and house. Ohhh. The daily show. Colbert Report. Gotta catch south park and sarah silverman. Six feet under was pretty good, too...
Other then that TV sucks. I watch TV shows, but have no TV. The trick is to download your tv from the internet so you can dodge the ads concentrated power scientifically calibrate to manipulate you, and still get a dose of culture and electronic sedation.
TV is evil and will turn you into a zombi...
sorry I remembered Heroes and house was on the tivo. Those shows are good. I forgot what I was thinking. Must watch more TV. TV... Must see... No... I must see it...
I think I saw that on an episode of House M.D.
Not really. I cancelled cable about 6 months ago, and I haven't looked back. The writer's strike helped a bunch, though.
I'll tune in to broadcast TV to occasionally watch Jeopardy while eating dinner, or to catch a new episode of House (pretty much the only show I watch regularly).