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Tours of Duty and Job Half-life

Alliances, tours of duty and the half-life of a every job I spend a good chunk of my time coaching young people who are working at start-ups, either as founders or early employees. I love talking to people about their projects and their career development in context of the insane…

Startup

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Tours of Duty and Job Half-life
Tours of Duty and Job Half-life
Startup

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5 days ago

Andy’s Suggested Reads as of 9.27.23

Startup : The Four Steps to the Epiphany — Gary Blank Innovator’s’ Dilemma — Clayton Christensen Made to Stick — Chip & Dan Heath High-tech Ventures — Gordon Bell Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days — Jessica Livingston Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras Good to…

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Suggested Reads/Blogs/Stuff
Suggested Reads/Blogs/Stuff
Readinglist

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Aug 7

Radiology,AI & Active Learning

I’d like to follow up my previous post about telehealth, AI & dermatology with some quick thoughts about AI, radiology, active learning and the need for pre-competitive big data sets in radiology. This article in the NYT about a successful study in Sweden using AI for assisting radiologists in reading…

Radiology

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Radiology,AI & Active Learning
Radiology,AI & Active Learning
Radiology

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Aug 7

Vector Databases — a list…

Vector Databases are all the rage as useful for LLM/GenAI. Figured I’d publish a list that some of my friends have been building of the Vector Database options. Exceptional resource here as well. If you have adds/removes/changes — don’t hesitate to add in comments. Faiss — (https://faiss.ai/#) Milvus — (https://milvus.io/) …

Database

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Vector Databases — a list…
Vector Databases — a list…
Database

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The Potential and Pitfalls of using a Large Language Model such as ChatGPT or GPT-4 as a Clinical Assistant

Fantastic work by the extended Pangea Data & academic team published here — key exerpts and tables below. It’s my belief that many of these types of experiments over the coming decade will help guide how we use AI in healthcare diagnostics. My instincts are telling me that we will…

ChatGPT

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The Potential and Pitfalls of using a Large Language Model such as ChatGPT or GPT-4 as a Clinical…
The Potential and Pitfalls of using a Large Language Model such as ChatGPT or GPT-4 as a Clinical…
ChatGPT

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Jul 18

“Two Letter Jobs”

I love movies and I have this talk I give at B-Schools called “Full Contact Entrepreneurship” — I use a bunch of movie clips to help reinforce some of the key principles in the talk. One of my favorites is a clip from the 2000 movie “Traffic” — clip here…

Jobs

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“Two Letter Jobs”
“Two Letter Jobs”
Jobs

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Jul 12

Piction Health — role model for how AI will be used to help real human beings.

There is so much hype around Generative AI these days — I can’t help but prepare myself for the proverbial “trough of disillusionment.” …

Generative Ai Use Cases

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Piction Health — role model for how AI will be used to help real human beings.
Piction Health — role model for how AI will be used to help real human beings.
Generative Ai Use Cases

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Jun 7

“One Size Does Not Fit All in Database Systems” — true in early 2000's — now we have the opposite problem….

More than 20 years ago — my partner Mike Stonebraker (MIT)and his academic colleague Uğur Çetintemel(Brown) published a paper entitled ‘“One Size Does Not Fit All” an idea whose time has come and gone’. The abstract from their paper is below : “The last 25 years of commercial DBMS development…

Database

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“One Size Does Not Fit All in Database Systems” — true in early 2000's — now we have the opposite…
“One Size Does Not Fit All in Database Systems” — true in early 2000's — now we have the opposite…
Database

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Feb 9

Piction Health Virtual Dermatology Clinic

Piction Health helps you get quick, easy access to expert dermatology care within two days. We are now open in New Hampshire and Connecticut, and are now accepting new patients. If you have a hair, nail or skin concern, and don’t want to wait months to see a dermatologist, simply visit pictionhealth.com Click on “Get Care Now” Answer some simple questions Upload 3 photos of your hair, skin, or nail issue

Dermatology

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Piction Health Virtual Dermatology Clinic
Piction Health Virtual Dermatology Clinic
Dermatology

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Jan 25

Mike Stonebraker, PhD : “Make cleaning data everyone’s job”

Mike Stonebraker, PhD : “Make cleaning data everyone’s job” Guest post below by my trusted colleague, friend & Co-Founder @ Tamr & Mike Stonebraker, PhD — great advice: The cornerstone of data-driven enterprises is clean, integrated data. It’s just that simple. …

Data

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Mike Stonebraker, PhD : “Make cleaning data everyone’s job”
Mike Stonebraker, PhD : “Make cleaning data everyone’s job”
Data

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