brandonb

9,716 karmajoined January 17, 2011On HN

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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Recent submissions

Interview with a cardiologist on Novartis, Novo Nordisk drug failures statnews.com
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Democrats Are Plotting Government Efficiency in a Post-DOGE World washingtonsun.com
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ARPA-H to invest $62M to develop FDA-authorized AI for heart failure statnews.com
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Routine blood testing may hold hidden clues to colorectal cancer before age 45 cnn.com
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Medicare spending to account for 44% of the federal deficit in 10 years axios.com
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Rumor: Apple Watch will use microphoneto generate daily AI recaps 9to5mac.com
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Tutorial on OpenAI's sphere packing result empirical.health
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California winemaker Tom Rinaldi has died sfchronicle.com
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Learning Human Health and Diseases from 24-Hour Wrist Movement arxiv.org
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Another Heart Drug Fails, Surprising Cardiologists nytimes.com
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Pushdown automata in statistical machine translation (2014)dl.acm.org
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High-Dimensional Sphere Packing and Error Correcting Codes scientificamerican.com
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AI giants lean into health care to stall public backlash axios.com
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Cardiac imaging study found plaque in 34.6% of men in their 30s empirical.health
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Apple's Phil Schiller Steps Down from Running App Store, Product Events bloomberg.com
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Cialis is promoted as a longevity drug. How does it compare to boring medicine?empirical.health
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New cardiovascular drug reduces oxidized phospholipids acc.org
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Orders to distillers are down in part due to tariffs wsj.com
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Birth order and disease risk across the human phenome nature.com
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Unpacking OpenAI's sphere packing result empirical.health
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 will differentiate itself from prior models 9to5mac.com
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We tested how AI chatbots would handle foreign propaganda npr.org
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After a rough stretch, mRNA gets a boost from cancer vaccines statnews.com
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14% of US employers to drop weight-loss drugs in 2027, as costs increase reuters.com
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Vijay Pande on running a small fund after running A16Z's $4B bio fund techcrunch.com
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High p-tau217 led to a 38% chance of cognitive decline empirical.health
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The mystery of Moderna's magic algorithm statnews.com
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A call for collective action on cyber defense openai.com
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Stacking Oranges in 24 Dimensions empirical.health
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SleepJEPA: Learning the latent world of sleep to estimate disease risk pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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