#Screening Accuracy

[neosciencehub]

AI breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection: Study claims a 17% increase in Screening Accuracy

AI breakthrough in Breast Cancer Detection: Study claims a 17% increase in Screening Accuracy @neosciencehub #Screening #BreastCancerDetection #AIbreakthrough #Study #neosciencehub

In a significant discovery, scientists from the University of Lubeck in Germany discovered that artificial intelligence (AI) can increase cancer detection rates by almost 17%. The results come from a recent study that included the world’s largest-ever implementation of AI use in breast cancer screenings. A total of 4,60,000 women were screened by 119 radiologists for the study. The radiologists…

[petermorwood]

Sound FX oopsie or not?

I was watching a couple of episodes of "The Crown" last week, and picked up yet again on something I'd noticed - heard - before. Unless there's something going on that I don't know about, the sound the show used for phones is incorrect.

They (w)ring wrong. In fact they ring American.

UK / Irish bell-ringer phones, the ones I grew up with - and which you'd expect to hear in Buckingham Palace, Balmoral etc. - had a short double ring, like so: Brringg-Brringg ... Brringg-Brringg ... Brringg-Brringg.

US bell-ringer telephones had a single long-ish ring, like so: Brrriiinnng ... Brrriiinnng ... Brrriiinnng.

It probably sounds unimportant for those too young to have heard these phones unless they've installed a "old phone ring" in their mobile.

However for people who grew up with a particular ring (not that long ago, the phones in those pics brring'd on in homes and offices on both sides of the Pond well into the 1990s) the incorrect sound can be as odd as, for instance, seeing US or Irish / UK cars driving on the wrong side.

It takes a couple of seconds, and then "Oh, that's not right..." (or not left, as appropriate).

Despite more on-line searching than I should have wasted time on, I haven't found either "goof" or "reason why" to explain how those phones in "The Crown" rang the way they did, and it's an itch I'd love to scratch.

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Another sound error is depicting modern British emergency vehicles as having two-tone (dee-dah-dee-dah) horns. Not any more - even though an EV going somewhere in a hurry with lights and sounds on is AFAIK still "running blues and twos".

Nowadays "twos" have been replaced by wailer, yelper and oth-er kinds of electronic siren - none of which, IMO, are as efficient as the two-tone either for cutting through ambient noise or indicating which direction the sound and vehicle is coming from.

I've also got a memory of a documentary sometime in the past year about the Battle of Britain and the Blitz (i.e. 1940-41) where whoever dubbed in the sound-effects clearly assumed that a dee-dah tone has always been the British police-fire-ambulance warning.

Ahhh... No.

British emergency vehicles in the 1940s didn't use sirens, horns or klaxons; they were fitted with hand-operated or electric bells. At that period, the two-tone warning called a Martin-Horn...

...was AFAIK exclusively German...!

All this sounds picky-picky, but while using the wrong plane or ship or vehicle because no example of a real one exists any more is one thing, making a mistake in something as inexpensive and easily-reconstructed as a period sound is another matter.

Of course it's a well-known truism that while the contract for a movie / show's historical consultant says they must be paid, there's no matching contract clause that says they must be heeded, so for the sake of their scholarly reputations those consultants sometimes demand to be removed from the credits.

Looking at you, Ridley...

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ETA: Some days later, with that original post still queued, I may perhaps have found an answer. :->

I've just watched "Thirteen Days", that rather good, properly tense movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which Kevin Costner's character had two phones at home. The black one was domestic with a US single ring, the red one was Official...

With a UK-style double ring.

Without bothering to re-watch each relevant episode of "The Crown", I'm now thinking those "incorrect" phone-rings may all have been internal lines and - like the Official phone in "Thirteen Days" - had a different ringing pattern to denote they weren't a "civilian" call.

In addition, the Costner character and his wife both react to the double ring with alarm, indicating they know its significance.

All of the above makes sense when you consider that custom ringtones were half a century in the future, and there's only so much the electrical pulses driving a pair of metal bells can do...

[queer-whatchamacallit]

@g3othermal3scapism got my brain working over high school au of them, and I instantly dove headfirst into early 2010’s fashion

So enjoy these little losers, they work minimum wage at a shitty burger place together

[kantraels]

hadron is CANONICALLY forcing your reject to wear a gay little backpack

[helloitsbees]

pov you’re amanda and the twink you just kidnapped starts cheeseing the camera for no reason

[felrend]

Don’t underestimate the Utaru

[kicksnscribs]

You know if the world was swaggy and cool and Game Freak was allowed to cook on their games i would love to see a revamped Battle Subway system where there is a slim chance your pokemon/opponents pokemon's attacks miss due to the fact that you are literally fighting on a freaking subway train.

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[biomic]

obviously any stupid over-priced belt that p-bandai shits out isn't going to do this but i would give anything for the toy to actually shred the cards you put into it as punishment for financially supporting kamen rider outsiders

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Love when you can see that an actor is wearing lip gloss

[wastelandhell]

imagine fo4 without bt3 and ocbp. literally unplayable.

[timoswerner]

if anyone is interested my top artists and songs were....

Sam Fender

Wolf Alice

Halsey

Charli xcx

The Last Dinner Party

Fontaines D.C

Raye

Pixey

Blur

The 1975

Angel In Lothian - Sam Fender

Von Dutch - Charli xcx

All Is On My Side - Sam Fender

Hold Out - Sam Fender

Yuk Foo -Wolf Alice

The Feminine Urge - The Last Dinner Party

Burn Alive - The Last Dinner Party

Formidable Cool - Wolf Alice

Bug - Fontaines D.C

You Asked For This - Halsey

[timesomewhere]

the fun thing about having been in fandom spaces for a while is that just from consuming the media you can accurately guess what the top 5 fandom discourses will be. there has been nothing new to argue about since plato god bless

[cheese-rat29]

mads mikkelson has such a talent for quiet menacing, and it adds a lot to his iteration of hannibal lecter. this choice, in both acting and casting, honors some of the canon attributes of dr. lecter in thomas harris’s original books as well as sets him apart from sir anthony hopkin’s (very book accurate) portrayal. the way he can change the tone of the scene with a subtle shift in body language, and how he never once yells in the show but is always very threatening. it’s part of what makes this show so engaging and suspenseful.

[snewok]

[alrightsnaps]

my favourite genre of egyptian people reacting to the cleopatra documentary is others being like “but you didn't have a problem when elizabeth taylor played cleopatra!” and them being like “actually yes, we did, y'all just never give a fuck about what we have to say as long as you make money off our culture”