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brandonb
9,336karma·1,335submissions·January 17, 2011
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Data for good.
Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.
Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)
CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)
Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology
HealthCare.gov rescue team
Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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This post was inspired by Hims' Superbowl ad, which claims that rich people do live longer. The claim is true, but it's partly explained by regional differences rather than just straight inc…
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Original source is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916402
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Archive link: https://archive.is/G2lLb#selection-1233.0-1233.65
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Sad to see what's become of Heroku. I've used Render as a good modern day alternative and have been pretty happy with it.
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Part of the gap is that men develop heart disease 7 years earlier: https://www.empirical.health/blog/men-vs-women-heart-disease... …
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I think your second sentence is the strongest -- it's specific about what you actually help with. Right now, the title and preview text on mobile probably look like "Quick scheduling questio…
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Every now and then, I think it's useful to look at what great work looked like in its first form. In retrospect, this result was the first step toward the LLMs that are now the dominant approach …
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This is the first new paper from Alec Radford since leaving OpenAI. Token-level data filtering is kind of a simple idea, but so are many effective ideas in LLMs. One advantage is that this type of saf…
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> My doctor said she’s seeing a huge number of patients coming back with excessively high Vitamin D levels after taking supplement doses recommended by influencers. It happened to me, too, with wha…
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The 365º view of your heart health was supposed to be a joke. Although not necessarily a good one. :) The study was presented at the AHA scientific sessions; full manuscript isn't out yet. It…
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Cool! Is this the one? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37302737/
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Can you paste an example title and email here? I'm a founder and get 100's of emails per day. I often reply to cold emails, but honestly, with 90% of them, I can't really tell if they w…
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This was a write-up of a new study (TARGET-D) that used vitamin D supplements -- with the supplement amount guided by blood testing -- to reduce heart attack risk. I've been working in heart heal…
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NASA got its support in much the same way during the space race. Spreading the jobs widely is a good way to get political support.
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One source: https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-pra... …