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brandonb
9,303karma·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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(OP) The first oral macrocyclic peptide was approved by the FDA two weeks ago. It's a cholesterol-lowering drug, the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor -- current PCSK9 inhibitors are injected. I found t…
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FWIW, several YC startups have also published ML research--there were several of us at the last NeurIPS. So perhaps this is a niche that startups can occupy if the big labs don't.
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This is cool -- I like the metaphor of AI as an sharp editor.
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This is a cool new study from UCSD research group. 11–19% mARD is interesting, although not quite accurate enough to displace CGMs (the FDA-cleared ones have ~8% mARD). But the sweat angle is could ad…
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Definitely agreed. I'm rooting for Apple, Samsung, Oura, etc to finally crack this problem and some of the techniques in the article (MIR, Raman spectroscopy, wearable foundation models) seem lik…