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brandonb

10,049 karma · joined January 17, 2011

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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New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts

quantamagazine.org·4 pts·brandonb·
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A new cardiovascular drug lowered Lp(a) by 78%. Why didn't heart events fall?

empirical.health·3 pts·brandonb·
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Mathematical Exploration and Discovery at Scale

par.nsf.gov·1 pts·brandonb·
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Bayesian Language Model Interpolation for Mobile Speech Input [pdf]

isca-archive.org·1 pts·brandonb·
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Anthropic warns that it's close to RSI capability

techcrunch.com·5 pts·brandonb·
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The Fruits of AI Drug Abundance: Indigestion in the Near Term

lifescivc.com·1 pts·brandonb·
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Can you reverse coronary plaque?

empirical.health·3 pts·brandonb·
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How Aldi is pushing down grocery prices

npr.org·4 pts·brandonb·
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When Causal Is Not Enough in Drug Develompent

jacc.org·3 pts·brandonb·
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I'm in 'You Can See Everything.' Here's My Side of the Story

nytimes.com·3 pts·brandonb·
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Will Be Covered for Fewer US Employees

bloomberg.com·6 pts·brandonb·
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How to buy a vineyard when prices are down

bloomberg.com·4 pts·brandonb·
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Grail's cancer test produces fewer false positives than I expected

empirical.health·2 pts·brandonb·
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Robert Caro: The master biographer reflects at 91 [video]

youtube.com·2 pts·brandonb·
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The Sane Asylum

colossus.com·1 pts·brandonb·
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Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It

medpagetoday.com·309 pts·brandonb·
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How a simple UTI turns into a $1,756 bill

statnews.com·2 pts·brandonb·
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New federal rule will require prescription drug middlemen to share payment data

statnews.com·6 pts·brandonb·
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34% of U.S. women under age 50 have iron deficiency under new guidelines

empirical.health·8 pts·brandonb·
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Lipoprotein(a) differs by 35% among South Asian groups

empirical.health·2 pts·brandonb·
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Metabolic Heterogeneity of Obesity

nature.com·1 pts·brandonb·
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LLMs for Computational Social Science

nature.com·1 pts·brandonb·
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Democrats' Secret Effort to Stack Alaska's Ballot

nytimes.com·3 pts·brandonb·
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Epic's iron grip is choking innovation in health technology

statnews.com·3 pts·brandonb·
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Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%

empirical.health·21 pts·brandonb·
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Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death

jacc.org·70 pts·brandonb·
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Vaccines for Cancer

jamanetwork.com·4 pts·brandonb·
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Slack's experience being acquired by Salesforce (part one)

buildingslack.com·1 pts·brandonb·
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Demis Hassabis shortens AGI timeline from five to two to three years

the-decoder.com·3 pts·brandonb·
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AI analysis of CT scans finds 42.9% of patients have coronary inflammation

biograph.com·91 pts·brandonb·
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