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We're still in lite stealth mode, so posting the name on HN isn't the best idea. :-)

greenish_shores 2y ago
I think I can relate to this, even despite mine is just purely software startup (but it's low-level software/firmware for off-the-shelf devices, which can only run commercial closed ones at the moment). Too much attention before our product is mature enough would be easily able to kill that. We won't be able to handle whatever could arise from that with our several-person team. But that's me. Mind sharing your reasons? Of course could be obscured as much as you need.
- biomcgary 2y ago
  In this context, stealth helps with trust and communication. Although that might seem paradoxical, we are initially working with a small number of members reached by word of mouth. We walk members through our data usage policies in person and ask questions to ensure we understand both their health and privacy concerns. Without long-term trustworthiness on our part, we won't get the longitudinal data that we need to ensure that we continue building the best in class predictive models. There are other reasons, but that's the biggest one.
canadiantim 2y ago
Fair enough, could I prod a bit about this section in particular? ("We use multiple data planes (multi-omics) to evaluate temporal effects across diverse biology." So you're a high-tech epidemiology company providing disease risk assessments based on your predictive models. These predictive models you say are using multiple data planes to evaluate temporal effects across diverse biology. My questiosn are, are data planes (multi-omics) the same as just data sources. Naturally conducting epidemiology necessitates taking in data from many sources, where does the term multi-omics come into play here? Presumably some of your data sources are genetics so I could see the "omics" part coming from that field, but it's an interesting term and I'd like to know what you mean by it?

I think I can relate to this, even despite mine is just purely software startup (but it's low-level software/firmware for off-the-shelf devices, which can only run commercial closed ones at the moment). Too much attention before our product is mature enough would be easily able to kill that. We won't be able to handle whatever could arise from that with our several-person team. But that's me. Mind sharing your reasons? Of course could be obscured as much as you need.

biomcgary 2y ago
In this context, stealth helps with trust and communication. Although that might seem paradoxical, we are initially working with a small number of members reached by word of mouth. We walk members through our data usage policies in person and ask questions to ensure we understand both their health and privacy concerns. Without long-term trustworthiness on our part, we won't get the longitudinal data that we need to ensure that we continue building the best in class predictive models. There are other reasons, but that's the biggest one.

canadiantim 2y ago

Fair enough, could I prod a bit about this section in particular? ("We use multiple data planes (multi-omics) to evaluate temporal effects across diverse biology." So you're a high-tech epidemiology company providing disease risk assessments based on your predictive models. These predictive models you say are using multiple data planes to evaluate temporal effects across diverse biology. My questiosn are, are data planes (multi-omics) the same as just data sources. Naturally conducting epidemiology necessitates taking in data from many sources, where does the term multi-omics come into play here? Presumably some of your data sources are genetics so I could see the "omics" part coming from that field, but it's an interesting term and I'd like to know what you mean by it?