Alan McLean

I never saved anything for the swim back. Designing at @googledeepmind

[Oliver Ye @_isomerism]

the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@signulll More of a cultural problem IMO. Hierarchy is a hindrance in this environment.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

Waiting for the web traffic graphs for recipe and health sites…

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month.

Holy shit.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@kmccor2014 @matthewstoller @Jason Can you provide a little more detail? Are you referring to Medicaid? Or rebates from lily/novo?

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

Arcs on arcs

[Jeremy Ashkenas @jashkenas]

Don’t miss @giorgialupi’s painterly guest essay on living with long Covid for 3+ years: https://t.co/kGHcTMNppt

Includes a visualization of what she’s experienced on every single day that — for those of us who have fully recovered from our bouts with Covid — feels staggering.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@AKoutnik Looks good. Is there a specific protocol you’ve adopted to define your IFF, carb ratio etc?

[Joe Nash @heyjoenash]

@janthonylong

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@AKoutnik Impressive! You probably won’t be happy with the current insured solutions. Tandem will lock you to a target of 120. You can trick it a little but it’s not going to really allow full control. So far I’ve only been happy with Loop and old Medtronic pumps.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@AKoutnik Likewise. I set my Loop target to 80 but calculate TIR as 70-140. What setup are you using? Loop? Tandem? Or just fully self-manage?

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

I recall at Fitbit we heard very similar exec comments when the Apple Watch came out. On the design team most of us knew it was just a matter of time.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

5. Zuck doesn’t think Apple unveiled any new tech:

He boiled down the differences to design choices.

He doesn’t think Apple invented any new tech Meta hadn’t considered.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@Alan_Couzens Isn’t that somewhat at odds with the often provided guidance for a far higher ratio of Zone 2?

[jennifer daniel @jenniferdaniel]

Newsletter Drop💌

Last year, we made over one-hundred animations of the most frequently used emoji; however, I didn’t blog about it on the ole bloggy letter … so did it really happen?

UH, YES. IT DID. And guess what?

We never stopped making more!

https://t.co/jVwWGvGspQ

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @betacellpodcast @tx_jeeper Respectfully, I think you’re steering too far the other way. Loopers get sub 5 A1c with similar stdDev and MUCH less hypo time. You’re incurring damage that cant be reversed with that much low time.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @MdZilin Why not just call it a hypo? Dude. 20% hypo is a lot! To each their own I guess 🤷‍♂️

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @lmareechampion I’d like to see the data to support “many”. I just don’t see that at all in the population data I have access to. FWIW, I have an A1c of 5.1 with low stdDev but I wouldn’t ever tell ppl 20% low is ok unless they’re deep keto which hinders accurate measurement of energy systems.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @MdZilin I look at glucose traces all day for non-diabetics and they definitely do not avg 20% low. If you’re truly deep keto I can see measurable glucose lower, but that seems at odds with calling it an “insulin overdose”. In those cases it’s a low with all the associated implications.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @MdZilin Is the negative long term impact of low glucose not present with an “insulin overdose”? My understanding is that it has the same net effect to long term cognitive function.

[Alan McLean @alanmclean]

@ryanattar @lmareechampion But you’re at 20% low. Thats a lot. Have you defined low as higher than 3.6mmol?