brandonb

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   by brandonb 2y ago

   I suspect they also need oxygen saturation (introduced in the Apple Watch Series 6 in 2020) in order to make their overall sleep apnea detection algorithm work. Given that it only works with the Series 9 or above, it's possible they&#x
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   How on-the-wrist sleep apnea detection works(empirical.health)

   175 points by brandonb 2y ago|165 comments
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   by brandonb 2y ago

   I’m a co-founder at a YC startup ( https://empirical.health ) that treats a number of long COVID patients, and I think the way forward really is to integrate AI into the doctor’s work. GPT-4 is often scarily good at suggesting dia
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   Empirical Health (YC S23) is hiring engineering leads in NYC(ycombinator.com)

   1 points by brandonb 2y ago
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   Empirical (YC S23) is hiring interns to build AI-enabled primary care(workatastartup.com)

   1 points by brandonb 3y ago
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   by brandonb 3y ago

   Researchers measured the accuracy of the Apple Watch's oxygen sensor, and found it was as reliable as a medical-grade device: https://data.empirical.health/p/is-the-apple-watchs-blood-ox... The FDA doesn't
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   by brandonb 3y ago

   Awesome! Can you talk a bit about how you trained or fine-tuned MediSearch's LLM?
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   Empirical turns Apple Watch into whole health monitor with access to doctors(9to5mac.com)

   1 points by brandonb 3y ago|0 comments
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   by brandonb 3y ago

   Very cool! I like the idea of tracking time per active reviewer -- in addition to bringing visibility to the work of reviewing code, it doubles as a signal of how easy a particular PR was to understand. That's potentially valuable feed
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    ChatGPT is not all you need: state of the art of generative AI models(arxiv.org)

    1 points by brandonb 4y ago|0 comments
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    by brandonb 4y ago

    I helped build an app that does ~$1m in annual revenue, and 75+% of revenue came from iPhone. That ratio seems to be in line with global stats on app store revenue, which show $72.3B of total revenue for the Apple App Store compared to $38.
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    by brandonb 4y ago

    Although this blog post focuses on learning small toy examples, I could see the approach scaling up to real problems in natural language processing. At one point, Google's own speech recognition system was built on a C++ finite state t
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    RevOps is building the modern sales stack for startups(techcrunch.com)

    3 points by brandonb 5y ago|0 comments
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    It makes sense that biotech startups are pre-revenue: it is illegal to charge money for a drug until it's gone through FDA clearance. That usually requires a Phase III clinical trial. After FDA, you're not done: the company must t
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    Leading Snowflakes is written specifically for new engineering managers. In my opinion, it nails it: https://leadingsnowflakes.com/ Unlike many books on leadership, this one is specific about the challenges of leading a t
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    (I worked on the HealthCare.gov rescue team.) You have it right. We didn't explicitly follow the agile manifesto (or any other manifesto), but we did focus on shipping working software incrementally. There are successor organizations,
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    Would you consider this a reasonable interview question for a management role? One major communication skill for people managers is to "turn around" a conversation that would naturally put people on the defensive into something th
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    Cardiogram | Senior Frontend Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE Are you a frontend engineer who wants to make the world healthier? Cardiogram's goal is to shift healthcare from reactive to preventive, starting with the most ubiquito
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    by brandonb 7y ago

    This solves a real problem for anybody in a management role, including PMs. For requests that come in via email, techniques like Inbox Zero work pretty well--you can treat your email as a todo list, and as long as your inbox is empty, you k
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    You might like the Withings Steel HR, which has a traditional mechanical watchface, a heart rate sensor, and about 25 days of battery life: https://www.withings.com/us/en/steel-hr/36rgw/shop?screen=de...
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    You got it—I renewed it 40 minutes ago. Bear with us as we get the renewal processed and DNS propagated.
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    Weird - I was able to reproduce an error in loading https://blog.cardiogr.am/screening-with-wearables-what-do-th... by refreshing. I'll investigate, but for now, try refreshing the page.
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    I work at a related company (Cardiogram), and there's a surprising amount of signal locked in the humble heart rate sensor -- we've run multiple studies with UCSF showing accurate detection of sleep apnea, high blood pressure, and
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    Aetna's new program could pay for your Apple Watch(usatoday.com)

    2 points by brandonb 8y ago|0 comments
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    Screening for Hypertension and Sleep Apnea with DeepHeart(blog.cardiogr.am)

    4 points by brandonb 8y ago|0 comments
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    Self-driving car startup Zoox gets a new CEO(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by brandonb 8y ago|0 comments
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    Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps(cnbc.com)

    366 points by brandonb 8y ago|211 comments
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    Fitbit, Apple Watch could bring new era of health monitoring(cnet.com)

    1 points by brandonb 8y ago|0 comments
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    For sub-$200 price range, I'd suggest some of the less expensive Garmin models (which Cardiogram is currently compatible with) or the Fitbit Charge HR 3 (which we'll hopefully be compatible with in the future).
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    by brandonb 8y ago

    Thanks for using it, and for the kind words!