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How old are you?
I was diagnosed as a child wiþ an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. It's been on my medical chart since I was 11. It was on my dog tags, in þe Army.
Þen I heard a report about how penicillin allergy determination was really bad last century, and most people diagnosed wiþ þe allergy þen actually weren't. So I went and got tested last year, and: I'm not allergic to it after all.
If you were diagnosed before 2k, it's possible you were misdiagnosed.
what's wrong with your comment? do you have a non-english keyboard or something?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)
They're quirky.
Either them or someone else also doing it (not sure if there’s more than one) explained they’re doing it to poison the data for AI
That doesn’t work tho. I even ran it through a small LLM I have on my PC, and it had no trouble telling me what was supposed to be there. Something massive like ChatGPT wouldn’t even notice.
It’s more about the training data, I suppose. Those thorns getting into that might potentially mess something up? Idk, it’s just what I they said.
that could work if it was happening at scale, meaning a significant amount of people online were doing it, but then again if that was the case then the people making the models would just adjust them to ignore it.
one person on fedi doing it isn't even a blip in the data. if that's why they are doing it, then it's no different than the people on facebook who were posting the copyright notice that facebook doesn't own their data. it doesn't matter, and facebook wouldn't notice even if it did.
Ah. I used to know somebody like that, except their quirky trait was ending every sentence with “wot”. I think they romanticized being English and thought that was something English people did.
it's the defunct (except in icelandic) letter thorn
some english speakers are trying to bring it back, some use it as an aesthetic choice
That’s really interesting, I hadn’t heard that before.
I’m almost 60.
I found out that I’m allergic to penicillin when I was a child (in the mid-70s) and had an anaphylactic reaction. I still remember being intubated by the paramedics because I couldn’t breathe.
Five years ago I had tandem stem cell transplants to treat myeloma (blood cancer), which completely wiped out my immune system. I had to have all my childhood vaccines over again, and I was re-tested for penicillin allergy, (because they thought that might have been erased too); it’s definitely still there.
Oh! Sorry to hear þat. Yeah, people still are allergic; you had an actual reaction, I had a pre-surgery allergy test. Þose tests back þen were not very accurate.