itschekkers
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Comment · 6 years ago
this is really just self-congratulation by them about how they have strong deal flow.
they also use this as a disingenuous/insincere way of rejecting founders (we don't want to invest, but you're probably one of the other unicorns we didn't invest in! check out out antiportfolio!)
Comment · 6 years ago
i'm interested in the project you mentioned-- drop me an email adam at springhealth.com if you'd like to chat
Comment · 7 years ago
There's always a PG article -- http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html [April 2005]
Comment · 7 years ago
agreed
Comment · 7 years ago
you should look into chargehound[chargehound.com], i think they would work for you.
Comment · 7 years ago
i think its because they are correcting for the commuter tax deduction. ask your HR folks about https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/commuter-benefits-law.pa...
Comment · 8 years ago
thanks! <3
we've had a wonderful positive response to this article, and people are overwhelmingly excited and motivated to try and exercise more because of it (even at relatively lower intensities or volumes -- every little helps). even if we are extremely cynical and say theres zero benefit of exercise for mental health, then people will still be getting known improvements regarding diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease. Nobody is advocating for exercise at the expense of alternative treatments like meds or therapy, this really is just a (potentially large) extra benefit.
Comment · 8 years ago
1- surely we're allowed to waste our own time if we like!
2- nope, and actually my entire research agenda has been around helping people find a treatment that is most likely to work for them specifically! (we also founded a company to bring the research to market- springhealth.com)
3- that is beyond the scope of the paper, and we didnt use the word hospitalized once
4- yep, and thats a good example of one of the pitfalls of self-reported surveys. in general, i am a bit less cynical and in our experience, most people aren't filling out surveys to intentionally lie or sabotage.
hope this helps!
Comment · 8 years ago
Original Article author here - happy to help with any questions people have.
Also sorry about the paywall - you can get the article either through sci-hub here http://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/S2215-0366(18)30227-X or you can email me and i'll send you a copy direct!
Comment · 8 years ago
I hate to pour cold water on this, but medical researchers have been predicting mortality for years.
For example, here's a paper from the 1980's also predicting when a patient will die, also using a couple of thousands of patients' data: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/3816253
And, Google's paper wasn't published in Nature, it was in a new open access journal owned by Nature. In academia, that is like the difference between a really fancy porsche, and a really cheap volkswagen (two very different things, both owned by the same company).
Comment · 8 years ago
placebo rates would be something in the 15-40% remission rate range, in small RCTs. it varies more than you would think from one trial to another. antidepressant efficacy would be something like 20-45%. recovery rates are usually higher in smaller trials, and lower in bigger trials, partly because people get more high-touch service in smaller academic studies