After his colonoscopy, Tom learned that he had cancer. The surgeon cut out and removed the part of his sigmoid colon in which a tumour had been growing, and with staples she fashioned a new splice from the two shorter and cut-through ends. Because of his good health, he healed quickly and after only three days was discharged from the hospital.
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Systemic and local hygiene has supplanted drugs and surgery in the treatment of diseases of the anus, rectum, sigmoid flexure, and vermiform appendix.
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If we had the textbook from a hundred years in the future that contains all the simple ideas that actually work, that take so long to identify in practice — the ReLUs instead of sigmoids — for those of us who’ve been following AI for, like, more than the last couple of years and know what I’m taking about there.
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