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by brandonb 9mo ago
This was a write-up of a new study (TARGET-D) that used vitamin D supplements -- with the supplement amount guided by blood testing -- to reduce heart attack risk. I've been working in heart health in 10 years and I was surprised at th
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Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?(empirical.health)
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NASA got its support in much the same way during the space race. Spreading the jobs widely is a good way to get political support.
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One source: https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-pra...
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Definitely shows the comparative power of medications. Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%.
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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level(uni-bonn.de)
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The lack of self-consistency does seem like a sign of a deeper issue with reliability. In most fields of machine learning robustness to noise is something you need to "bake in" (often through data augmentation using knowledge of t
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FWIW, Apple has published validation data showing the Apple Watch's estimate is within 1.2 ml/kg/min of a lab-measured Vo2Max. Behind the scenes, it's using a pretty cool algorithm that combines deep learning with physio
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We trained a foundation model specifically for wearable data: https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-foundation-model-... The basic idea was to adapt JEPA (Yann LeCun's Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectur
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I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor(washingtonpost.com)
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Why Ramp Won(operatorjournal.substack.com)
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Quantum Machine Learning Is Emerging as a Practical Tool for Drug Discovery(thequantuminsider.com)
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Tim Cook taps John Ternus to oversee Apple's design teams(9to5mac.com)
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Ramp vs. Brex: How the underdog won(productmarketfit.tech)
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Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial(nbcnews.com)
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Archive link: https://archive.is/mJSEh
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Health trackers know you didn't sleep well. Does that help or hurt?(bloomberg.com)
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Health insurance execs shift blame for costly, confusing health care system(statnews.com)
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Brex CFO Erica Dorfman's Take on the Capital One Deal(cfo.com)
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Smartwatches detect abnormal heart rhythms 4x more often in clinical trial(usnews.com)
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It's Time for Primary Prevention in Medicine(erictopol.substack.com)
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Rewards Are Everywhere(agenticposts.substack.com)
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Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt(research.google)
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Pretty extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707572
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Heart Disease and Stroke Behind Quarter of All Deaths in U.S.(nytimes.com)
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Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke(wired.com)
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Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025)(venturebeat.com)
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Heart Rate Variability(empirical.health)
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When to treat (or not treat) a high cholesterol(sensible-med.com)
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SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors(research.google)
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