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by kendallpark 8y ago
Pardon my cynicism, but it strikes me either as naivety or fanboy-ism to label the Apple Watch as the "tipping point" for healthcare tech. Wearables for consumer health that touch on actual healthcare in a few areas are a pretty l
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by kendallpark 8y ago
That's super interesting. I wonder why that is.
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Young adult. It takes about 1-2 weeks to notice a trend. I'm just looking over my summer RHR data and it pretty much matches my activity level. Steady decline in May and June when I was working out consistently. Steady climb after I in
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> "Anonymized". Just with the data posted above, it seems like it'd be pretty easy to correlate the data to a person. And auto-enrolling everyone who buys a health product is not an excuse to mine all their data. Hospitals
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Yes, there are cases when a sub-60 resting heart rate is bad. For the vast majority of people, lower is better. The athlete's heart undergoes remodeling that is similar in outcome to pathological processes (eg, cardiomegaly and cardiac
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> I'm a software developer on the side and would love to stop residency to try a healthcare startup and/or pursue a research, but the risk is too great - I need the attending salary to pay off the debt. This is exactly why I pr
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Okay, so, what's the catch? If the motivations behind this are as altruistic as they're made out to be, props to them. This is EXACTLY what applied healthcare AI researchers/developers need. Granted, $100K for just one year i
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by kendallpark 8y ago
With all due respect, I don't want to go into all the details of a previous employer and their relationship with that client so that people on the internet can retrospectively tell me whether I made the right call or not. Suffice to sa
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by kendallpark 8y ago
It's easier to stand your ground when you're young, single, and mobile (which I was at the time). As a medical student you might see something unethical or negligent happen during rotations, but even speaking up could risk your ca
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Reductio ad absurdum. I shoved a code base into version control and set up a super simple but safe deployment strategy. No fancy anything. It put off non critical development for a day and made development faster because I could make sure m
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Yes, this is good advice. I was a doe-eyed fresh dev back then and in an advantageous position in the sense that nothing was riding on this job. Getting fired wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world. That said, had I gone ahead
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Weirdly enough, "getting shit done fast" were the exact words used in the meeting where it was explained why my contract wouldn't be renewed. Like I said, the feeling was mutual. Every company and person can decide how deeply
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Yeah, I'm with you there. Like at the end of the day, I don't want to work for a company that treats a client's site with such gross negligence. The client was trusting us to manage the site responsibly and we would have been
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> They’re more likely to fight for what they believe in, challenge the status quo, and push the organization to make painful but necessary changes, he says. A long time ago, I had a new employer that wanted me to hotfix non-critical code
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by kendallpark 8y ago
I'm completely with you. Rails is still my go-to for short one-off projects that I need to build something FAST. Hell, I even use it for quick n' dirty data analysis because working with Active Record is so easy. Rake import the d
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Ruby inline conditionals. They read like English. Short and sweet. if condition? return end if !i_probably_shouldnt? do_something end Becomes: return if condition? do_something unless i_probably_shouldnt?
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by kendallpark 8y ago
The XPS 13 was my first laptop! I've had a 2008 XPS 13, 2012 MBA, 2013 MBP (work), 2015 MBP, and 2016 MBP (work). I don't particularly like MacOS but I prefer anything Unix to Windows. I ran Linux on the XPS and the 2012 MBA. When
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by kendallpark 8y ago
I'd love to get a side by side comparison of Weex and Vue Native.
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by kendallpark 8y ago
I did a quick browse through the threads in question and suggest others do the same. Yes, there is negativity, but the actual debate is more complex than simply one grumpy side slamming a poor developer. The most relevant comment I found wa
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by kendallpark 8y ago
If you are an undergraduate in computer science these days, it is very hard to get into advanced AI/ML classes, which are typically reserved for graduate students. Back before the ML goldrush, a strong CS undergrad interested in AI cou
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by kendallpark 8y ago
My traditional CS curriculum had ethics as the capstone. Do most CS programs not do this?
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Same with aviation. http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/24/7/428
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> Something equivalent to what doctors have when they receive a medical license and become board certified. In the US this requires four 8+ hour exams, spread out over at least seven years of training; each exam requires months of prepar
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> there is no reason to bring up what other countries are doing except to say that they are doing something Are you suggesting that healthcare legislation should be drawn up in a vacuum? It's important to compare and contrast the be
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> but I think it is a lot more complicated than saying lets copy X countries plan I don't think anyone in the discussion thread is advocating carbon copying another country's healthcare.
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by kendallpark 8y ago
It's not all or nothing though. Many countries have hybridized private/public healthcare. Examples: - Compulsory basic insurance (private or public) (Switzerland) - Private insurance + equalization pool (Netherlands) - Compulsory
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by kendallpark 8y ago
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. The way the system works right now, I don't think the hospitals really have a choice. I'm hoping this new cost-transparency will raise more awareness at the patient-level
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by kendallpark 8y ago
It's more complicated than that. If you're uninsured, you can apply for aid. If your financial need is considered great enough, they might write off part or all of your bill. Hospitals set aside a certain amount of "charity&q
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by kendallpark 8y ago
> In my experience nobody who advocates for socialized healthcare is under this impression. Did you misread? I said that many that are against socialized healthcare don't realize that wealth redistribution is already happening in
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by kendallpark 8y ago
Furthermore, even the capitalistic idealism of "multiple private insurance companies competing with each other will drive prices down" doesn't work. At the end of the day, Medicare decides what it's going to pay for a pr

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