brandonb

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We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda(npr.org)
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After a rough stretch, mRNA gets a boost from cancer vaccines(statnews.com)
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14% of US employers to drop weight-loss drugs in 2027, as costs increase(reuters.com)
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Vijay Pande on running a small fund after running A16Z's $4B bio fund(techcrunch.com)
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High p-tau217 led to a 38% chance of cognitive decline(empirical.health)
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The mystery of Moderna's magic algorithm(statnews.com)
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A call for collective action on cyber defense(openai.com)
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Stacking Oranges in 24 Dimensions(empirical.health)
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SleepJEPA: Learning the latent world of sleep to estimate disease risk(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Oura reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B(techcrunch.com)
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Games as the Engine of AI Research(deepmind.google)
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Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study(journals.plos.org)
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20+ YC startups have recently published machine learning research(empirical.health)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
This is roughly how GPUs for neural networks got started: after Andrew Ng left Google Brain, he no longer had access to a 10,000-CPU cluster used to train the original DistBelief system. But his Stanford students could buy a GPU...
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by brandonb 2mo ago
One source for that state is the CDC, which estimates 8.3% of people are uninsured: https://www.beckerspayer.com/research-analysis/uninsured-rat... The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates about 26.7 million people ages
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by brandonb 2mo ago
FWIW, at least 20 Y Combinator startups have published ML research recently at ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, and so on. I think a lot of people assume that only the big AI labs can do cutting edge research, but there's a strong argument you can
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FDA digital health leader promises generative AI regulatory guidance is coming(statnews.com)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
Agreed that we can't do as much as we'd like. There are some general health things that are believed to prevent cognitive decline, such as managing cholesterol, HbA1c, blood pressure, sleep apnea, etc. One phrase I've heard i
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A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof(motherjones.com)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
Sure! The study is from July 2026: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2851720
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by brandonb 2mo ago
This Alzheimer's blood test, PrecivityAD2, is based on the p-tau217 biomarker. In one recent study, people very high p-tau217 had a 38% chance of progressing to cognitive impairment within 5 years vs 12% for those with low levels. The
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Strange people, but very smart (Bell Labs Culture)(voiceinthemachine.com)
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Membership Fees Are Coming for Your Doctor's Office(slate.com)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
Curious-is there a particular diagnosis they should be compensating for in these algorithms?
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Eli Lilly files 6 lawsuits against businesses selling black market retatrutide(npr.org)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
(OP here) I worked on one of the first studies on detecting diabetes from wearables in 2018. It was kind of fun to review how the field has evolved. The basic approach is the same (pretrain a self-supervised foundation model on sensor data,
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The science behind Pixel Watch's insulin resistance feature(empirical.health)
17 points by brandonb 2mo ago|3 comments
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Google, Apple, Samsung integrating data from wearables into healthcare(nytimes.com)
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by brandonb 2mo ago
Uncompensated care attributable from uninsured patients is ~2–3% of operating revenue/costs. So it's there but not massive.
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by brandonb 2mo ago
Those are two real effects, but together they wouldn't compensate for the rate cuts. About 8% of the population is uninsured. The uninsured population skews younger, with less healthcare utilization (Medicare already covers everyone 65

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