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by troyastorino 10y ago
HIPAA is actually pretty terrible in terms of protecting your privacy from government agencies (or from insurers). It can require covered entities (health care providers, plans, or clearinghouses and buisness associates) to hand over medica
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) Is Hiring a Head of Operations(app.picnichealth.com)
1 points by troyastorino 10y ago
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by troyastorino 10y ago
Link to press release from SLAC: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2016-09-21-schroedingers...
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by troyastorino 10y ago
Ah yes, you're right, I was thinking of it that way. Thanks a bunch for your clear and thorough explaination, it makes a lot of sense! So if I understand what you're saying, a 1x1 convolutional layer for collapsing 100 channels to
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by troyastorino 10y ago
As far as I understood from the description, in LeNet the convolutional layer lets you avoid training parameters that will effectively be doing the same thing as a convolution. Adjacent pixels are highly correlated, so convolutions can capt
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by troyastorino 10y ago
Insurance policies for rocket launches typically expect 1 in 10 rockets to blow up on the pad. ULA's 100% success rate is unusual for the industry. Elon and SpaceX are obviously shooting for higher reliability than the industry standar
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by troyastorino 10y ago
Awesome stuff! Why are you guys focusing on produce as opposed to say corn, which has so much more acreage in the US?
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by troyastorino 11y ago
Uber doesn't actually have to win these legal battles. They just need to prolong the time until a definitive ruling on driver classification is made until they are ready to roll out a driverless fleet. And prolonging the outcomes of th
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by troyastorino 11y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) - San Francisco, CA - Full Time, Intern picnichealth.com, demo.picnichealth.com PicnicHealth helps patients achieve better care by centralizing and streamlining all their medical information. We're looking for a f
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Hey there, PicnicHealth CTO here. Happy to answer any questions you might have about what we do or how we do it! (Or really anything else I guess)
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PicnicHealth (YC S14) raises $2M seed round(techcrunch.com)
20 points by troyastorino 12y ago|1 comments
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by troyastorino 12y ago
We get records as far back as we can. Unfortunately, records that are more than 10 or 15 years old are often destroyed. Offices are only legally required to keep records for a certain period of time (e.g., for 7 years in California), and so
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out! Just fixed the outstanding SSL config issues for the marketing site, and brought it up to 'A'
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by troyastorino 12y ago
The original paper that Rognlie wrote: http://www.mit.edu/~mrognlie/piketty_diminishing_returns.pdf
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A note on Piketty and diminishing returns to capital (2014) [pdf](mit.edu)
10 points by troyastorino 12y ago|6 comments
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by troyastorino 12y ago
PicnicHealth (YC S14) San Francisco, CA Software Engineer: Full Time, Intern PicnicHealth helps patients with serious medical conditions manage their medical records. We continuously collect all of our customers' medical records, digit
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by troyastorino 12y ago
It could depend on whether healthcare.gov signed Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with the insurers that it's connecting to. If it did have to sign BAAs, then heathcare.gov would be covered under the scope of those BAAs, and would
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Design the patient's interface to medical data with PicnicHealth (YC S14)(picnichealth.com)
1 points by troyastorino 12y ago
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Make medical data meaningful with PicnicHealth (YC S14)(picnichealth.com)
1 points by troyastorino 12y ago
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Ah, didn't realize that there was this dimension to the debate. Sorry for the hasty/inaccurate comment, and thanks for correcting me.
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by troyastorino 12y ago
The implication is that people who used to have a full time position would now be forced to take a part time position. The ACA employer mandate only applies to companies with more than 50 full-time employees, incentivizing employers to have
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Hi, one of the PicnicHealth founders here. It's great that you were motivated enough to upload your data to Google Health! Unfortunately for Google Health, most people weren't as motivated as you. We believe that Personal Health R
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Labeling it luck also seems somewhat disingenuous as it assumes there is some distinction between people and the nature+nurture that makes them who they are. As someone commented elsewhere, the claim that people are exclusively a result of
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by troyastorino 12y ago
The article is referring to automated electronic access to your medical data (lab test results, diagnosis lists, procedure histories, etc). If you were able to get automated, electronic access to all of you medical information, it would be
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Although the relation to HealthKit was somewhat tangential, this post did an excellent job of relaying the status of and problems with digitized healthcare. HL7 is absolutely horrendous, and Meaningful Use has no interoperability requiremen
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by troyastorino 12y ago
Are you serious? What part of integrating computer vision as central to user experience is cloned from the iPhone?
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Code Monkey Island – board game to teach kids programming(kickstarter.com)
52 points by troyastorino 12y ago|22 comments
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by troyastorino 13y ago
I just started using browserify after using RequireJS for a while, and also got annoyed at how slow builds were. Then I searched around and found watchify, and it's great! Build time during development isn't painful at all anymore
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by troyastorino 13y ago
Legal concepts that are derivative from the natural right to liberty, e.g. freedom of speech, are protected by the government, but that is not the same as them being created by the government. An individual certainly has liberty, and thus f
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by troyastorino 14y ago
Wouldn't this be illegal under the 13th Amendment? Isn't it equivalent to partial slavery?

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