Artur Adib
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Founder, Biocogniv (YC S20) • Prev: Faculty, National Institutes of Health, Twitter/X, BETA • Brown U PhD, Physics • Immigrant 🇧🇷 and forever grateful 🇺🇸
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Oh no, misinformation has now spread from Hopkins and UCSF into Harvard Medical School!
Quick, let’s boycott Spotify and Twitter unless they take down HMS’s podcasts and tweets.. Thanks a lot
@MartyMakary
@VPrasadMDMPH
;)
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@tunguz
Quantitative and logical accuracy gets diluted by the rest of the accuracy it needs to deliver (semantically correct, contextual, sequential, etc). Remove the fluff and you get it to focus on what you want
Many are pointing out that ChatGPT is bad at math, or that it's generally inaccurate. I think that's because it's optimizing for too many things at once, e.g. craft an answer that's coherent, polite, believable, etc. If you force it to focus on accuracy, it delivers.
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The noisiest people about wealth inequality tend to be the ones who were born in the middle of the ladder and never climbed it.
Those of us who started at or near the bottom are simply thankful for the existence of the ladder, even if it’s hard(er) to get to the top. Envy sucks.
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Many are pointing out that ChatGPT is bad at math, or that it's generally inaccurate. I think that's because it's optimizing for too many things at once, e.g. craft an answer that's coherent, polite, believable, etc. If you force it to focus on accuracy, it delivers.
@ndrestone
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I am pinning this quote as it sums up my most valuable experience with successful product development. Ignore at your own peril.
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@shaunmmaguire
Not much has changed since 9/11, when Palestinians took to the streets to celebrate the World Trade Center attacks
FLASHBACK: Palestinians celebrate fall of World Trade Center Towers in 2001
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“There were 1.1 overall hospitalizations per 100,000 children – 👉low compared to a typical flu season that can reach 3-5x more👈”
Now that we have vaccines, the next miracle you’ve been waiting for to get your life back is simply perspective.
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This is how much it costs to get a COVID swab and a routine blood test in the ER, after waiting 4.5h with tachycardia and high temp.
Will we ever get healthcare costs under control in this country?
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It’s like we suspected early on, Vinay- when certain people are frightened, they replace critical thinking with confirmation bias.
Scientists, it turns out, are very susceptible to this.
I doubt the media will ever stop talking about long COVID. It’s just too good for them.
This thread is about the best long COVID paper to date. What does it say when you take long COVID patients and compare them to healthy controls and there pretty much is no difference in dozens of tests: inflammatory, immune, cardiovascular, renal...
Media should cover this daily
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I am once again inspired by
@VPrasadMDMPH
’s tour de force in dissecting science from policy. In a world where ‘good intentions’ are put above reason, I am thankful for his independent, atribal voice. Go Vinay 💪
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In which Snoop Dogg tries to cheer up the creator of Minecraft after he tweets about loneliness
#onlyontwitter
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@notch
Cheer up homeboy! Im gonna have you by tha Doggy Den and we can smoke sum of that sticky n build sum new shit! Uhearme!!!
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And there it is. And why the voices of people like
@venkmurthy
@VPrasadMDMPH
and others is so important to balance irrational knee jerkness
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This just hit our household. The nonsense needs to stop. I think we’ve reached the point where whoever is still concerned needs to wear hazmat suits and isolate themselves, and let the rest of us live our lives. The side effects of the ‘safety first’ drug are killing us.
All this testing in school. All these quarantines. Teacher sick so students stay home. 1 kid sick, so pick up students, stay home and test. 5 days 10 days. It's all pointless.
It just hurts children more
@vkoganpolisci
and I in SLATE
Live now
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@jeremyjudkins_
@natemcgrady
@elonmusk
If you can’t make more than $11/mo then I think you have a content/audience problem not a platform one
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@AmValues2024
@CNN
@RobertKennedyJr
@TannersDad
@teacher_choice
@cafecitobreak
@naomirwolf
@jeffreyatucker
@dan_hanke
@DrAseemMalhotra
@DrJudyAMikovits
Legacy media is extremely upsetting.
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I’ve never looked forward to a ‘talk show’ like I look forward to
@theallinpod
.
Perhaps because the cast aren’t just talking heads—they’re doers of top caliber. Congrats and keep up the great work
@jason
@chamath
@DavidSacks
@friedberg
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1/ When I need expert *independent* takes on medicine and public health, I look to people like
@VPrasadMDMPH
and many others here on Twitter.
But this freedom to challenge mainstream thinking is seriously at risk.
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@DrEliDavid
@Harvard
And this is not a joke: “Harvard Tells Students: ‘Using Wrong Pronouns’ Constitutes ‘Abuse’”
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Are we allowed to start comparing risk of death by flu vs COVID now that the numbers are one order of magnitude lower, or is that is still a no-no?
@VPrasadMDMPH
@venkmurthy
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This is just one step away from censorship.
Does it really not matter that Tracy is an MD-PhD epidemiologist actively working on COVID?
Are we learning *nothing* about the fallibility of gov health agencies? (look no further than this week's debacle at FDA)
Cc
@VPrasadMDMPH
Why is my tweet 👇 being labeled as "misleading"? I'm discussing the
@CDCgov
's own slides. Was it because I was expressing uncertainty about vaccine risks vs. current COVID risks to otherwise healthy kids? Thoughts?
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@TheLaurenChen
Agreed that men have an inherent biological advantage (because science), but I think that the issue of equal pay has more to do with revenue
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@EricsElectrons
@_SalmanAnwar
I’m an immigrant myself (from Brazil) and came here for my PhD. I got paid $16K/year to study and be a teaching assistant. It changed my life, and I like to think I was a good investment (NIH faculty, 2x entrepreneur).
There was nothing like that in the UK/EU back when I looked
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Pentagon withholding UAP info from Congress, according to Clinton-Bush era intelligence secretary, Chris Mellon
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@Rainmaker1973
"Previous claims of room-temperature superconductors have not held up to scientific scrutiny, so this work has a long research journey ahead."
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We've been throwing SQL queries literally having THOUSANDS of lines against
@GoogleCloud
BigQuery tables with BILLIONS of rows, all with complex joins and conditionals, and the thing returns results in at MOST a couple of minutes. Truly an amazing technology.
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5/ When I was an early team member at Twitter, we stood for freedom of speech even if it went against government – remember the Arab Spring? Twitter has now done a 180, and it’s nearly impossible to not see this as pure political bias.
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Wow, I’ve never seen such a clear cognitive bias before. Emergency department doctors abruptly change their test recommendation for heart attack based on whether someone is 39 vs 40.
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Now stop for a second and try to imagine how *your* candidate would have reacted
Here's a vine of
@berniesanders
running to the side of the man who fainted at his presser:
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@paulg
@engineers_feed
As a young Physics graduate student I had the audacity to ask why we were so confident in the big bang theory, when it’s just one experiment and so many scenarios are compatible with the data (background radiation etc). The response has always been Occam’s Razor, which is weird -…
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6/ For better or worse, social media has become part of the fabric of our country, and it has now been operating at direct odds with the core foundation of this country: freedom of speech.
The example below from a respected MD-PhD is just too painful. We need change.
@jack
Why is my tweet 👇 being labeled as "misleading"? I'm discussing the
@CDCgov
's own slides. Was it because I was expressing uncertainty about vaccine risks vs. current COVID risks to otherwise healthy kids? Thoughts?
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@LibertyCappy
They do - they lose their jobs, get salary cuts, etc.
Also profit/growth sharing is already the norm in tech - typically through stock options.
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@KanekoaTheGreat
“Mr Maussan has previously been associated with claims of “alien” discoveries that have later been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that were later shown to be human children.”
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Facebook/Meta's stock just lost the equivalent of six Twitters, or three Modernas *overnight*.
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That’s now two major reviews in top journals (Cochrane and BMJ) revealing no benefit to public masking. At this point any mask mandate is essentially political, unscientific, and yes–cruel.
Bravo
@TracyBethHoeg
et al and the work of many others in this space
@VPrasadMDMPH
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NEW - Systematic review published in the BMJ "fails to find any evidence of benefit" from masking children to either protect themselves or those around them from COVID-19.
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Dude dissing the venture capital model while using an iPhone, writing on Medium, and broadcasting on Twitter 🙈🙉
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Now that Fauci has admitted COVID hospitalizations are overcounted (“with” vs “because”) and that some hospitals are reporting up to 2x overcounting, who’s working on revising mortality rates? Is it going to be 10% less? 2x? Or..? Cc
@VPrasadMDMPH
@MartyMakary
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This is how I used to debug in my teens:
printf("made it here!")
Also this is how I *still* debug today. The power of print is that it generalizes to almost any language with no debugger learning curve. Great if you're a generalist who bounces between too many languages.
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2/ Platforms like Twitter and FB have become arbiters of truth. They decide who is right, and if the topic is contentious enough, they will take measures to muffle the other side.
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-22% in one county. Anyone estimating this nationally?
@VPrasadMDMPH
“The county reviewed each COVID-19 fatality and counted those whose cause of death was from the virus, not just those who tested positive for COVID-19 at the time of death”
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@Jason
@micsolana
OK so now you’ve shifted the racial engineering from the bottom of the funnel to the top. But it’s still racial engineering, to put it mildly because it is in fact still discrimination.
Provide a concrete example of how your idea isn’t racial engineering?
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This is a helluva thread, Vinay getting real again. 👇
I have read many pandemic guidances from circa 2004 to 2010. They all contradict what we did.
The reason is we did not envision technology would largely remove a huge amount of upper middle class workers from dialog.
In the past layoffs...
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@ScottAdamsSays
When good scientists retire and no longer need government grants, they get to speak against the narrative without worrying about their livelihood. And they basically all agree on your statement and more:
• Dr. Richard Lindzen (MIT professor of meteorology, member National…
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is like Github’s Gist, but it can also run the code and supports all these languages. Wow.
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@jonathanvswan
Funny we don’t hear this type of complaint from conservatives (if anything just thankfulness, as they now have a level playing field)
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@DGlaucomflecken
What’s funnier than an ophthalmologist making fun of a radiologist for not knowing what a stethoscope is? 😂😉
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4/ This means loud zealots of mainstream thought can perform mass ad hominem attacks unchecked, while brave experts tackling complex topics take the blow of BOTH the platform AND its mob.
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1/ Twitter peeps! After a summery hiatus, I’m thrilled to announce I'll be joining
@PwnieExpress
as their CTO, starting in August
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In my 30+ years of personal computing, I've never seen a perfect storm of disruption forming like
@MagicLeap
,
@HoloLens
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@Oculus
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3/ In other words, they decided to focus on the “what” rather than the “how”, which is the opposite of what a good debate mediator does.
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“One minute of arduous exercise is comparable in its physiological effects to 45 minutes of gentler sweating”
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If you ever wanted to see a modern version of Innovator’s Dilemma, just keep an eye on how Google is responding to OpenAI. Too little too late?🍿
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THIS is vaccines at work here in Chittenden County, VT (highest vaccination rate in the state, >90%). Top: New cases, Bottom: Deaths.
We've been surging since August, yet death rate is flat compared to previous peaks under smaller surges. The vaccine is doing its job. ✌️
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Twitter! The time has come for this birdie to fly away and enjoy summery Vermont before figuring out a next adventure. June 2 is my last day
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We’ve been living in a dystopian future already.
If a tenured, MD PhD professor of medicine at Stanford gets blacklisted for speaking against a party’s narrative, what hope does the rest of us have to be heard?
Incredible tour de force by
@elonmusk
.
Still trying to process my emotions on learning that
@twitter
blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt.
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Telemedicine is fine until you need blood work.
If only there was a device at the nearest Walgreens that could do all your tests with just a drop of blood...
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To everyone tweeting this picture to suggest presidency has aged Obama: Don't forget he's a father of two young kids
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This is from one of the best iOS developers I know. Apple continues to prove, again and again, that they can't and never will cloud. ☁️💩
iCloud Photo Library is complete garbage. Uploads 15% and nothing since. Can't even resume from pause. cc
@AppleSupport
$10/mth for nothing
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@RobertKennedyJr
@jeremyrhammond
If anyone needs protection it’s a Kennedy. Shame on the Biden administration.
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@ggreenwald
Glenn- with much respect, this parallel with Bush’s WMDs (*nonexistent*) as an excuse to invade Iraq (*unrelated* to WTC attacks) is completely absurd.
By contrast, Israel is responding specifically to a threat directly behind the terrorist attack of Oct 7 (Hamas), and they’re…
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Twitter! I've built a thingy for Vermont. There are incredible tech companies here, but they're not easy to find. No more! Check this out 👇
Say hello to AllYouCanTech–Vermont, a comprehensive resource for tech employees (tech companies, events, jobs, etc)
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@SenateTim
@unusual_whales
Indeed, different: Pelosi is in charge of semiconductor lawmaking, so not only does she *know* before we do when new laws will favor a company - she *makes* those laws.
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@DGlaucomflecken
Idea for a skit: A pathologist and a radiologist are summoned to see a patient (a patient!!)...
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We now move more than $50 Trillion per year in electronic bank transfers on behalf of individuals, companies, and governments.
And yet, election after election, we watch this nonsense of manual counting unfold like it’s normal. Our machinery of democracy is stuck in the 1700s.
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Every software engineer ever (except for those with a business slant, who went on to become billionaires)
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@VivekGRamaswamy
You didn’t read the memo, and in case you didn’t know, FDIC is not funded by taxpayers. Slow down Vivek, take a deep breath.
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@JunkScience
Here’s a compilation of the best speaking out against the dishonest scientific claim that climate change is human induced. What do they have in common? They all retired, so they no longer depend on gov grants which require adherence to the narrative.
• Dr. Richard Lindzen (MIT…
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@Austen
Definitely
@VPrasadMDMPH
’s Ending Medical Reversals. You might never accept what you doctor says at face value ever again.
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@ProfMarkMaslin
@X
@elonmusk
This is ‘science’ much like ‘nutrition science’ is science: cherry picked correlations touted as causation. CO2 has always lagged behind temperature changes when you zoom out the timescale. Extreme events are also cherry picked, the full data says otherwise.
When good scientists…
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Ah the seductive combination of correlation with a little reasoning! It sure *looks* like any other kind of science, but make no mistake–it's of the lowest grade.
Superb writeup by
@drjohnm
, should be added to
@VPrasadMDMPH
's book :)
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This is how I used to debug in my teens:
printf("made it here!")
Also this is how I *still* debug today. The power of print is that it generalizes to almost any language with no debugger learning curve. Great if you're a generalist who bounces between too many languages.
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@paulg
Some of the world’s worst massacres were in the name of leftist values, by leftist governments (Mao, Stalin, Castro, etc), so maybe you mean in the US/UK? If so I agree - we’ve been insulated from the tyranny of good intentions of the left, but that’s coming to an end.
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@alexandr_wang
It’s about balance. Video games can be highly addictive. If you can keep it from becoming all-consuming it’s probably net-positive.
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Congrats Fabric team on finding a new home at Google! They're very lucky to have every one of you. 🤘
A new chapter in the Fabric story – we’ve agreed to join
@googledevs
, combining the best of
@fabric
and
@firebase
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“[Trump’s] statement brought immediate reaction from many El Pasoans who objected, noting FBI crime statistics show violent crime in the city has dropped significantly since the 1990s, well before the wall was built”
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Canadian train saying 'hi' to everyone in DC dreading their 2 ft of snow
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The only constant in startups is change, so build for 6 months, not 6 years. Generally this means simpler code/setup, hence easier to adapt.
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