troyastorino

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by troyastorino 4mo ago
Tokens do have a clearly calculable intrinsic cost. There's the marginal cost of production (i.e. the inference cost) and the amortized R&D cost that goes into the model producing them. Yes, value is hard to calculate, but luckily
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by troyastorino 6mo ago
Matt Levine often says something like "insider trading is not about fairness, it's about theft." The problem isn't that it's less fair to some stock traders than others, and that stock trading should be some form of
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by troyastorino 1y ago
The point of a humaniod is compatibility with systems that have been built for humans, which is...nearly all systems that have been built. Environments and tools that exist in the world are ones that have been built for humans, so for a sin
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by troyastorino 1y ago
Put a comment on this below, but the claim is highly misleading...consumer spending is ~$5 trillion, AI investment is ~$100 billion. The graph is looking at something like contribution to GDP growth (not contribution to GDP), but that is
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by troyastorino 1y ago
I've seen this quote in a couple places and it's misleading. Using non-seasonally adjusted St. Louis FRED data ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NA000349Q ), and the AI CapEx spending for Meta, Alphabet, Mic
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by troyastorino 1y ago
The overlap between the Effective Altruism community and the Rationalist community is extremely high. They’re largely the same people. Effective Altruism gained a lot of early attention on LessWrong, and the pessimistic focus on AI existent
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Microsoft new quantum chip uses topoconductor, claims path to 1M qubits(news.microsoft.com)
2 points by troyastorino 2y ago|0 comments
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by troyastorino 2y ago
The answer is a little nuanced. We train on real records, and even though they are de-identified in training we still have to keep the model closed and under careful management to protect against the possibility of information leaking. We a
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by troyastorino 2y ago
(Co-founder of PicnicHealth here; we trained LLMD) Accuracy and deploying in appropriate use cases is key for real world use. Building guardrails, validation, continuous auditing, etc is a larger amount of work than model training. We don&#
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LLMD: A Large Language Model for Interpreting Longitudinal Medical Records(arxiv.org)
48 points by troyastorino 2y ago|19 comments
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by troyastorino 3y ago
Gas taxes are a direct mechanism to price the negative externalities. Yes, gas taxes also cover road infrastructure, but the amount of gas purchased (and therefore taxed) is directly proportional to the negative externality of CO2 emissions
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Lilly's new amyloid drug slows Alzheimer's progression by 35%(reuters.com)
4 points by troyastorino 3y ago|0 comments
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by troyastorino 4y ago
Google groups is also the mechanism for defining groups for viewing/editing permissions, comments, calendar invites, etc across Google Workspace and for access permissions in GCP. That group definition aligns nicely with being a mailin
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by troyastorino 4y ago
I’ve had mixed success typing things verbatim vs hand writing verbatim. When learning to program, I found typing out code samples had a similar effect to writing them out by hand, and felt more natural to the domain. But in other subjects i
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring product engineers to improve patient care(picnichealth.com)
1 points by troyastorino 4y ago
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) raises $60m to build patient-centered research datasets(fiercebiotech.com)
3 points by troyastorino 4y ago|0 comments
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) raises $60m Series C to make medical data work better(picnichealth.com)
8 points by troyastorino 4y ago|0 comments
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring Product Engineers to transform healthcare data(picnichealth.com)
1 points by troyastorino 4y ago
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by troyastorino 4y ago
Echoing other comments, the issue might be as simple as not being at the right company. Interviewing elsewhere seems like the right thing to do. I'm confident there are environments out there where other engineers would challenge you.
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Cybertruck + Catamaran = Cybercat(cybercatamaran.com)
2 points by troyastorino 5y ago|0 comments
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by troyastorino 6y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite, Remote (US timezones) | https://picnichealth.com | Can transfer visas PicnicHealth is building healthcare's missing data layer, making medical data patient-cent
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by troyastorino 6y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite, Remote | https://picnichealth.com | Can transfer visas PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, empowering them to mo
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) lands $40M to accelerate patient-centric medical research(techcrunch.com)
8 points by troyastorino 6y ago|0 comments
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by troyastorino 7y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com | Can transfer existing visas PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, empowering them to m
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by troyastorino 7y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, empowering them to monitor and control their care
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by troyastorino 7y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, empowering them to monitor and control their care
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by troyastorino 7y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | San Francisco, CA | Full-Time, Onsite | https://picnichealth.com PicnicHealth works with patients to collect, digitize, and manage their medical records, empowering them to monitor and control their care
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) hiring in SF to help patients manage their medical records(keyvalues.com)
1 points by troyastorino 7y ago
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by troyastorino 7y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) | Design, Front-End, Full-Stack, Eng. Manager | SF | ONSITE, FULL-TIME, VISA | https://team.picnichealth.com/jobs?src=hn Picnic’s mission is to structure the world’s medical data to make it useful. We
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by troyastorino 7y ago
America is not a democracy — it is a constitutional republic with democratic elements. America has democratic election of representatives, the the lawmaking is done by those representatives, not directly. California’s proposition system is

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