mattangriffel

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by mattangriffel 2y ago
His point is that while we're over here arguing over whether a particular AI is "really" doing certain things (e.g. knows what it's doing), it can still cause tremendous harm if it optimizes or hallucinates in just the r
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Ophelia (YC W20) is hiring software engineers to help solve the opioid crisis(jobs.lever.co)
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Ophelia (YC W20) is hiring software engineers to help solve the opioid crisis(jobs.lever.co)
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Ophelia (YC W20) Is Hiring Engineers to Help Combat Opioid Addiction(jobs.lever.co)
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Ophelia (YC W20) Is Hiring a Product Designer(jobs.lever.co)
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Ophelia (YC W20) is hiring a Software Engineer to help combat the opioid crisis(coda.io)
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Ophelia (YC W20) Is Hiring Software Engineers in NYC to Help People Quit Opioids(meetophelia.com)
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
That would be great! Mind shooting me an email at mattan@meetophelia.com?
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Thanks for the tip, would love to chat further if you want to shoot me an email at mattan@meetophelia.com
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Wow. That's beautiful, thanks for sharing.
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Wow this is great. No I hadn't seen this but I'll definitely be reaching out to him. Thanks!
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Appreciate these thoughts talolard. I like the idea of partnering with local governments and non-profits, and would welcome any introductions or suggestions there. As you mentioned, most would want to see efficacy in a few pilot regions fir
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
While there are some regulations (both state and federal) around what we can and can't say publicly, most of our obstacles so far have been the policies of sites like Facebook, Google, Reddit and the like. Many of them have gotten into
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Facebook and Google both require LegitScript ( https://legitscript.com/ ) certification. We're in the process of going through that and we're told it may take several months.
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Oof, where to begin. There are regulations around what states we're allowed to operate in, what kinds of clinicians are able to see patients, how we have to treat patient data, and what the clinical protocols have to look like. In term
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
We're primarily focused on medication-assisted treatment with Suboxone. Sorry to hear about your experience irscott, it's certainly not the right solution for everyone.
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Fixed! Thanks for catching that Brian.
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Yes! MAPS has conducted and collected some really great research around psychedelics and their use in the treatment of things like PTSD and addiction. Specifically, Ibogaine Therapy has shown some real promise around drug addiction [1]. Unf
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by mattangriffel 7y ago
Mattan here (co-founder of Ophelia). We're certainly considering any options that are scientifically backed and evidence-based. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the standard in the medical community among addiction specialists an
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by mattangriffel 10y ago
As someone who teaches coding to beginners for a living (I founded One Month and I teach Python to business students at Columbia University), this language looks really intimidating to beginners. Maybe Pyret isn't for beginners, and it
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by mattangriffel 10y ago
No, it's a way of dealing with the issue of deadlocked decisions between co-founders if equity is split evenly. Usually in the case of a deadlocked decision between co-founders, you can resort to a board vote, after which you resort to
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by mattangriffel 10y ago
Digital – every button on the page says "Buy Digital Book Now"
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Ask HN: Do you primarily use Python 2 or 3?
2 points by mattangriffel 10y ago|3 comments
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by mattangriffel 11y ago
Yeah, but also this is nothing new. In a recent Planet Money episode (#688: Brilliant vs. Boring), they talk about how when John Bogle first introduced the index mutual fund in 1975, it got a lot of criticism (and not much adoption) with p
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by mattangriffel 11y ago
> The only way to change culture is through law. Not true. What about education?
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Change `alpha` to `beta1` to prep for release of Rails 5(github.com)
1 points by mattangriffel 11y ago|0 comments
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One Month Is Hiring a Director of Growth(jobs.lever.co)
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One Month (YC S13) Is Hiring a Director of Growth(jobs.lever.co)
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One Month (YC S13) Is Hiring Full-Stack Engineers to Change Education(jobs.lever.co)
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One Month (YC S13) Is Hiring a Front-End Developer(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by mattangriffel 11y ago

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