brandonb

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Bayesian Geometry of Transformer Attention(arxiv.org)
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Controlling Blood Sugar Cut Heart Disease Risk in Half, Study Says(nytimes.com)
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by brandonb 10mo ago
This is cool! It'd be interesting to correlate this with Vitamin D too.
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by brandonb 10mo ago
This is a little different since the Apps SDK lets developers create specialized tool calls to their servers, and create specialized in-chat UI components. It's an evolution of the same concept as the GPT store, but a very different ta
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by brandonb 10mo ago
HbA1c, or just diabetes as a binary variable, has been one of the main inputs into predicting heart attack risk for a long time. The main marker of kidney function, eGFR, was added with the AHA/ACC's PREVENT equations in 2023. I w
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Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You(nytimes.com)
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Apple Watch detects 89% of sleep apnea(empirical.health)
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Tech Force, a review by the first USDS administrator(medium.com)
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by brandonb 10mo ago
The acoustic model of a speech recognizer used to be a GMM, which mapped a pre-processed acoustic signal vector (generally MFCCs-Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients) to an HMM state. Now those layers are neural nets, so acoustic pre-process
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by brandonb 10mo ago
I learned speech recognition from the 2nd edition of Jurafsky's book (2008). The field has changed so much it sometimes feels unrecognizable. Instead of hidden markov models, gaussian mixture models, tri-phone state trees, finite state
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Researchers trained foundation model on 3M days of Apple Watch data(9to5mac.com)
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by brandonb 10mo ago
It's a cool idea! This is going to become easier in the next year since TEFCA will let patients request their own medical records through the health information exchanges that have already been set up for treatment.
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by brandonb 10mo ago
(OP here) Happy to answer any questions on this work!
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AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model based on JEPA(empirical.health)
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Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it(nytimes.com)
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Accommodation Nation(theatlantic.com)
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Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows(healthisotherpeople.substack.com)
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The Most Common Signs of a Heart Attack(nytimes.com)
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by brandonb 11mo ago
If the fire alarm didn't go off, you didn't sear hard enough. :)
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Biggest prostate cancer screening trial in decades begins in UK(bbc.com)
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by brandonb 11mo ago
D’oh. You’re right. HN doesn’t let me edit the URL after posting, so will re-submit.
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Apple Watch's algorithm detects 89% of sleep apnea(empirical.health)
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New Garmin Watch feature to catch early signs of stress and illness(t3.com)
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Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound Is Being Tested as a Treatment for Long Covid(wired.com)
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by brandonb 1y ago
> When I see that it is widely accepted that ApoB is better to measure than LDL-C, but the industry continues to measure LDL-C, but not ApoB, I wonder why. It makes me skeptical. Part of this is just that insurance coverage lags science.
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by brandonb 1y ago
Very interesting!
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by brandonb 1y ago
Unfortunately, this is a limitation of nearly all nutritional studies. Partly we use mechanistic evidence to separate cause from effect--that's part of why the article goes into detail about, e.g., how soluble fiber binds to bile in th
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by brandonb 1y ago
I see -- yeah, the Android metadata says "in-app messages". That refers to features where you can message support or a doctor within the app. We don't attempt to read your text messages or anything like that. Your data isn&#x
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by brandonb 1y ago
FYI: $190 is the price for the comprehensive health panel which includes a blood test and video visit with a doctor. You can track nutrition for free within the iPhone/Android apps.
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by brandonb 1y ago
(OP) Yep--this is my philosophy. Obviously I'd love it if everybody used our product to improve their heart health, but I think it's better to write stuff that's informative and if people genuinely have the problem, then they

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