brandonb

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High-deductible health plans associated with 46% worse mortality(jamanetwork.com)
8 points by brandonb 8mo ago|1 comments
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Why do rich people live longer?(empirical.health)
4 points by brandonb 8mo ago|2 comments
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Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
325 points by brandonb 8mo ago|204 comments
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by brandonb 8mo ago
About 20% of people who have normal LDL cholesterol will have normal ApoB. So they agree a lot, but disagree sometimes.
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by brandonb 8mo ago
This post was inspired by Hims' Superbowl ad, which claims that rich people do live longer. The claim is true, but it's partly explained by regional differences rather than just straight income.
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Do rich people live longer?(empirical.health)
4 points by brandonb 8mo ago|3 comments
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by brandonb 8mo ago
Original source is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916402
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by brandonb 8mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/G2lLb#selection-1233.0-1233.65
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Apple Is Scaling Back Plans for New AI-Based Health Coach Service(bloomberg.com)
4 points by brandonb 8mo ago|1 comments
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Apple reportedly scales back plans for AI-powered health coach(9to5mac.com)
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by brandonb 8mo ago
Sad to see what's become of Heroku. I've used Render as a good modern day alternative and have been pretty happy with it.
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Meta-analysis claims statins are safer than previously thought(thelancet.com)
2 points by brandonb 8mo ago|0 comments
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by brandonb 9mo ago
Part of the gap is that men develop heart disease 7 years earlier: https://www.empirical.health/blog/men-vs-women-heart-disease...
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U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high(scientificamerican.com)
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Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Health(empirical.health)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|1 comments
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Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up(fortune.com)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|1 comments
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Men develop cardiovascular disease 7 years earlier than women. Why?(empirical.health)
4 points by brandonb 9mo ago|0 comments
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A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction(nature.com)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|0 comments
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by brandonb 9mo ago
I think your second sentence is the strongest -- it's specific about what you actually help with. Right now, the title and preview text on mobile probably look like "Quick scheduling question" / "Hi [name], I'v
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Men's heart attack risk climbs by mid-30s, years before women(news.northwestern.edu)
5 points by brandonb 9mo ago|1 comments
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Curbing unnecessary Vitamin D testing(catalyst.nejm.org)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|0 comments
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by brandonb 9mo ago
Every now and then, I think it's useful to look at what great work looked like in its first form. In retrospect, this result was the first step toward the LLMs that are now the dominant approach in AI. In 2017, this was a very modest r
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by brandonb 9mo ago
This is the first new paper from Alec Radford since leaving OpenAI. Token-level data filtering is kind of a simple idea, but so are many effective ideas in LLMs. One advantage is that this type of safety guardrail can't be undone by an
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Shaping capabilities with token-level data filtering(arxiv.org)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|1 comments
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Lp(a): the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease(empirical.health)
2 points by brandonb 9mo ago|0 comments
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Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron (2017)(openai.com)
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by brandonb 9mo ago
> My doctor said she’s seeing a huge number of patients coming back with excessively high Vitamin D levels after taking supplement doses recommended by influencers. It happened to me, too, with what I though was a conservative dose of Vi
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by brandonb 9mo ago
The 365º view of your heart health was supposed to be a joke. Although not necessarily a good one. :) The study was presented at the AHA scientific sessions; full manuscript isn't out yet. It's in the caveats section in the articl
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by brandonb 9mo ago
Cool! Is this the one? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302737/
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by brandonb 9mo ago
Can you paste an example title and email here? I'm a founder and get 100's of emails per day. I often reply to cold emails, but honestly, with 90% of them, I can't really tell if they will solve one of my top 3 problems.

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