Rohit Farmer

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  1. Why We Resist Simple Wisdom

    Photo by Alex Shute on Unsplash Before you read: I use LLMs to help me proofread and edit my writing. What follows reflects my own thoughts and experiences — read on if you feel it’s worth your time. More on AI usage. Human beings have changed a great deal in technology, language, clothing, transportation, and lifestyle. But in our basic nature, we have not changed as much as we like to think. The same fears, desires, pride, impatience, and need for drama that shaped people thousands of years…

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  2. FDA Approved, FDA Cleared, FDA Registered: What Do These Terms Actually Mean?

    Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash Before you read: I use LLMs to help me proofread and edit my writing. What follows reflects my own thoughts and experiences — read on if you feel it’s worth your time. More on AI usage. Walk through a pharmacy aisle, scroll through social media, or search for a health gadget online, and you will see phrases like: “FDA approved” “FDA cleared” “FDA registered” “FDA listed” “Clinically tested” “Doctor recommended” These phrases sound official. Some of them…

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  3. Clinical Trials: How They Work, How Patients Are Recruited, and Whether Participants Are Paid

    Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash Before you read: I use LLMs to help me proofread and edit my writing. What follows reflects my own thoughts and experiences — read on if you feel it’s worth your time. More on AI usage. Clinical trials are research studies with people. They help doctors and scientists learn if a new medicine, device, vaccine, procedure, test, or health program is safe and works well. In simple terms, clinical trials help turn medical ideas into real treatments for…

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  4. Book Review: The Man Who Knew Infinity - A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

    Book Cover: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan Before you read: I use LLMs to help me proofread and edit my writing. What follows reflects my own thoughts and experiences — read on if you feel it’s worth your time. More on AI usage. I recently finished listening to The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan, which I borrowed as an audiobook from my public library. Before listening to the book, I had watched the movie adaptation almost a decade ago. I loved…

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  5. We Use Signal Now

    Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash Before you read: I use LLMs to help me proofread and edit my writing. What follows reflects my own thoughts and experiences — read on if you feel it’s worth your time. More on AI usage. My wife and I have started using Signal for our communication instead of WhatsApp, where most of our friends and family still are. It was a deliberate decision, mostly encouraged by me, to keep our conversations as private and secure as possible. I simply don’t...

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