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by brandonb 7mo ago
Very cool. I learned something new about why EMA (exponential moving average) is needed: > EMA-based training dynamics like JEPA’s don’t optimize any smooth mathematical function, yet they provably converge to useful, non-collapsed repre
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Lp(a) testing is now recommended to prevent heart disease(npr.org)
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New cholesterol guidelines recommend earlier treatment(empirical.health)
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Research Links Daily Multivitamins to Slower Biological Aging(sci.news)
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The Peptide Wild West(substance-over-noise.beehiiv.com)
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by brandonb 7mo ago
Regulation is quickly catching up to modern AI techniques; for the most part, the approach is to verify outputs rather than process. For example, Utah's pilot to let AI prescribe medications has doctors check the first N prescriptions
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The prediction task is set up as predicting the next measured biomarkers based on a week of wearable data. So it's not necessarily predicting into the future, but predicting dataset Y given dataset X. The specific biomarkers being pred
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FWIW, the single blood draw is 6-8 vials -- so we're not claiming to get 100 biomarkers from a single drop. The point of that is mostly that it just takes one appointment / is convenient.
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Thanks! We need to re-do the top navigation / hamburger menu -- we've added a bunch of new things in the past few months, and it badly needs to be re-organized.
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by brandonb 7mo ago
Sure! Here’s a description: https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-...
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LeCun's technical approach with AMI will likely be based on JEPA, which is also a very different approach than most US-based or Chinese AI labs are taking. If you're looking to learn about JEPA, LeCun's vision document "
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Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B seed round(bloomberg.com)
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Healthcare is AI's hardest test(time.com)
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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year(techcrunch.com)
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Should you take a supplement for heart health? Here's what the science says(washingtonpost.com)
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Review: Aktiia Hilo Blood Pressure Monitor(wired.com)
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UnitedHealth promised transparency. Instead, it's cutting back key disclosures(statnews.com)
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ARPA-H launching new AI program for 46% of US counties with no cardiologists(statnews.com)
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CMS halts enrollment in Elevance/Anthem, citing years of misconduct(statnews.com)
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MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI(techcrunch.com)
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WatchGuardian: Enabling User-Defined Just-in-Time Intervention on Smartwatch(dl.acm.org)
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Fiber is the ultimate nutritional power tool. Not only does fiber reduce cardiovascular mortality by 26% (by cutting cholesterol), surprisingly enough, fiber even reduces your risk of cancer by 22%: https://www.empirical.health
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Why reinforcement learning breaks at scale, and how a new method fixes it(techxplore.com)
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Data-Driven Nutrition(empirical.health)
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We've done a little research in this area, attempting to approximate blood-based biomarkers on wearable data. You can get some of them: https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-... A YC company,
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What high blood pressure does to your body(washingtonpost.com)
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement with Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash(nytimes.com)
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Why rich people live longer(empirical.health)
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(OP) This was fun to write. The most surprising thing I learned that coconut milk is a lot less healthy than I would have guessed (high in lauric acid). I had always heard that dark chocolate was heart healthy, in spite of being high in sat
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Only 3 saturated fats raise cholesterol(empirical.health)
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