brandonb | Dark Hacker News

user:	brandonb
created:	January 17, 2011
karma:	8.4k
about:	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)` twitter.com/bballinger brandonb.cc

1.	1 points by brandonb 4 days ago \| discuss
2.	Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea(techcrunch.com) 85 points by brandonb 4 days ago \| 60 comments
3.	Bartenders at a Cocktail Mecca Propose a New Concoction: A Micro-Union(nytimes.com) 2 points by brandonb 9 days ago \| 0 comments
4.	Metformin may work via the gut, not the liver(medicalxpress.com) 3 points by brandonb 10 days ago \| 0 comments
5.	1 points by brandonb 10 days ago \| discuss
6.	Four Lp(a)-lowering drugs in trials reduce levels by up to 94%(empirical.health) 1 points by brandonb 10 days ago \| 0 comments
7.	Sleep polysomnography predicts 130 health conditions, including CVD(empirical.health) 4 points by brandonb 10 days ago \| 0 comments
8.	Omega-3 supplements may be linked to faster cognitive decline in seniors(medicalxpress.com) 3 points by brandonb 11 days ago \| 1 comment
9.	It's time to test all adults for lipoprotein(a)(lipidjournal.com) 4 points by brandonb 11 days ago \| 1 comment
10.	The invisible force making food less nutritious(washingtonpost.com) 5 points by brandonb 12 days ago \| 0 comments
11.	Every statin ranked by effect size(empirical.health) 2 points by brandonb 13 days ago \| 0 comments
12.	HealthFormer: Transformers for irregular electronic health record events [pdf](medrxiv.org) 2 points by brandonb 15 days ago \| 0 comments
13.	The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation(erictopol.substack.com) 1 points by brandonb 15 days ago \| 0 comments
14.	A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform(eatingpolicy.com) 2 points by brandonb 17 days ago \| 0 comments
15.	The Fick equation and your heart(empirical.health) 2 points by brandonb 17 days ago \| 0 comments
16.	Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes(washingtonpost.com) 138 points by brandonb 17 days ago \| 127 comments
17.	Cigna to quit health insurance exchanges(modernhealthcare.com) 6 points by brandonb 17 days ago \| 0 comments
18.	Using physiological ODEs and DNNs to estimate VO2Max(empirical.health) 3 points by brandonb 17 days ago \| 0 comments
19.	A Licensure Framework for Autonomous Clinical AI(jamanetwork.com) 3 points by brandonb 18 days ago \| 0 comments
20.	NOEM: Finite element method enabled by reusable neural operators(nature.com) 2 points by brandonb 19 days ago \| 0 comments
21.	AI spots pancreatic cancer years before it shows up, study finds(bloomberg.com) 3 points by brandonb 19 days ago \| 0 comments
22.	FDA launches effort to speed up clinical trials using AI(statnews.com) 2 points by brandonb 19 days ago \| 0 comments
23.	A Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path(wired.com) 7 points by brandonb 21 days ago \| 2 comments
24.	Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials: 'It's a medical crisis.'(nbcnews.com) 34 points by brandonb 23 days ago \| 1 comment