MrFanzyPanz

Here.

I think it’s over the definition of “error”.

If the question is “did the doctors make the best decision they had the information to justify?” the answer is probably “yes”. If the question is “did the doctors make a decision that would have led to a worse outcome?” the answer is also yes.

There’s a moral difference between making a mistake you could not possibly have anticipated and making a mistake you could. The way you paint this scenario comes across a bit like the latter, when in all probability it was the former.

I didn’t read your post that way; this is just my guess at why it bothered some folks.

As a Civil Engineer who does big data processing for one-off projects, my coding experience has been exactly opposite, haha. There are no frameworks to start building from because you need to do an incredibly simple task using data stored in .csv files. The data is huge (~100Gb of text), so runtime matters a lot.

Algorithmic efficiency makes the difference between a script that runs in 3 days and one that runs in 3 months, and my boss, who is not a programmer, does not appreciate the difference.

Does this mean that a liter of water under standard pressure and temperature no longer is a kilogram?

Hey. This will probably get swallowed up but I wanted to comment anyway. I'm interested in your story because I think I might have a similar one.

I've never been formally diagnosed with Aspergers or Autism, but I'm pretty sure I'm on the spectrum. I had very few social skills when I was a kid; I had no friends other than my siblings until I was in high school. I had a hard time understanding voice tones and I still tend to be a very monotone speaker. I also couldn't really understand how most people thought, mostly relating to why people seemed to care so much about little things. Like why people would be upset about being woken up by gardeners or why people wanted me to be interested in their hobbies when they seemed like a waste of time. I also showed a lot of other symptoms that suggested Aspergers, but I'm too high functioning now to get proof. When I was in middle school I decided that I needed to grow and change so that I wouldn't die alone so I've worked really hard to understand people and change the way I think, and now, while the undercurrent behaviors are still there, I've changed so much that I just come across as sociopathic when I talk to psychologists.

I guess I just wanted to let you know that I'm glad that you're growing. I've met a number of people with Aspergers who are struggling to change so that they can connect with people and have meaningful relationships, so I was starting to feel very lonely. It's weird to have worked so hard at something for over a decade and have people not notice or understand what you've put into it. Even my fiance is surprised sometimes by things she learns are coping mechanisms.

It can be very lonely, but you're not alone. And I guess I'm proud of you for it, in a way. It takes a huge amount of strength as a person to decide you want to change and then really put the work into it, and it can feel like you're the only one really trying, but there are people who share your philosophy.

Good luck and Godspeed.