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i've told this story on here before but a dear friend of mine is a dental hygenist and worked for a very prominent dentist in ketchum (maybe hailey?), idaho. the hygienists were on a rev-share agreement to push every 'product' imaginable.

munger was right. power of incentives, eh?

A friend of mine owns a few home health care businesses in the bay area. He said he's approached weekly and offered anywhere from $500k-2M for his data.

wait until someone designs an old school wireless home phone to connect to it. we'll come full circle.

The city of Santa Barbara painted a line through the town 25 years ago saying if we don’t stop global warming, the town will be under water to that line in 25 years…

trainyard is/was an amazing game.

In particular, season 2 is truly a work of art. As you said, it is just flat out brilliant. If you haven't watched the final episode of nathan for you (season 4 episode 7), watch it. it's equally fantastic.

Have they tried GHB? I know it's used in narcolepsy patients with great success. If you "microdose" it, it's also one of the best drugs on the planet. Slippery slope, though.

The answer is money.

Do you think you would ever use LLMs in tandem in your practice to help diagnose and treat?

Anecdote on healthcare, adjacent to this.

My dog had been acting off. Wouldn’t eat, was hunched over, looked sad. We took him to a local vet who did an X-ray because they suspected a blockage. They didn’t see one, so they sent us home with standard pain meds.

Randomly, we had a dinner party that night and another vet was there. She heard the story and immediately said, “Go home right now and take your dog to an emergency vet with ultrasound.”

Turns out, at the time, most vets had been trained to use X-rays to look for blockages, but newer evidence showed X-rays were only something like 20% effective compared to ultrasound, which was closer to 95%. (forget percentages but somethign like that)

The ultrasound found an avocado pit stuck in his intestine. He had emergency surgery that night.

That chocolate chunk of an English Lab ended up living until 15, and only needed two more blockage surgeries after that...

I know doctors hate patients reading the internet, and LLMs are going to make that 1000% worse for them. But hopefully over time, we all adapt together and end up better off in the long run.

They call it 'onramping'. Moonpay is a big one, coinbase has one, onramper is another. Basically Applepay / credit card -> ETH or SOL or USDC, etc, then lose away!

arb?

Another data point.

California pistachios consume about 500–600 billion gallons of water per year.