Friday Alphametic
Astute observers will note my sweet new link on the right-hand sidebar. I know, I know. I’m supposed to be updating the art pages on my website, since that stuff is sold/gifted and my blog archives are gone with the wind - so there’s nearly all-new art that needs to go there and that’s no longer on the web anywhere. But this was SO much easier.
This fellah named Borowitz created a program named Isabel. Isabel is a very brainy gal. She’s like Google, but with hierarchies: instead of coming up with the disease process(es) that are most outrageous — lights! camera! exotic gore! — she automatically ranks a broad differential diagnosis from “horses” (your tremor is nothing) to “zebras” (hellooo, ALS). You input symptoms, she outputs differential. You input symptoms IN PATIENT TERMS, she recognizes clinical mumbo-jumbo synonyms and spits out matching lists along with the differential. This way, you don’t have to have already done all the research to know how to do the research on a differential. Oh, Isabel. Come away with me.
HORSE
+ HORSE
+ HORSE
+ HORSE
+ HORSE
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ZEBRA
Bonus alphametic for Isabel. (Anything for Isabel.)
HORSE
+ HORSE
+ HORSE
+ HORSE
+ ZEBRA
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BEAST
In marginally related news, read it and freak: older women don’t get on kidney transplant lists at comparable rates to older men, even though they have comparable or slightly higher post-op survival rates. Somebody should tell these guys how much older women are worth in unpaid labor…