Augusto Monteiro

Senior Software Engineer | Medical Student | Inventor

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

This is a genuinely cool modeling problem.

I can’t treat the bloodstream as a simple event bus, because I don’t need every subsystem to consume "the whole signal." I need partial, concurrent consumption.

Example: a patient receives 10ml of drug X. The liver metabolizes 0.00001ml per tick, while other tissues are also consuming, transforming, and reacting to it in parallel.

It’s less like pub/sub and more like distributed state with local processors.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

I am trying to become a Science communicator in Brazil.
starting trying to teach medical english terms.
let's see how it goes

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

if this already exists and it is opensource I really want to contribute. If not I will be building it

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

New obsession:

Biological Debugger

What if cells, organs, and organisms had something like a serial port?

Plug in. Inspect state. Read the logs. Debug biology in real time.

I can’t stop thinking about this.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

The output:

"given what we currently know, here’s the causal graph, here’s the evidence, here are the assumptions, and here’s what might happen next."

A version-controlled, evidence-backed runtime for biology.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

Here is the prompt I used.

Write a TypeScript program that teaches me how antigens and antibodies work in immunology.

Requirements:
The TypeScript code must run without errors.
Include clear comments throughout the code.
Use simple examples to explain each concept.
Be very detailed.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

Don’t waste the superpower you’ve spent years developing. (I am using @perplexity_ai)

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

I'm trying to grow my ig and tt accounts in Brazil. So far I have started posting daily videos about English. I am also going to start talking about science and show me building things. So far it has been 5 days. Let's see how it goes

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

can't wait for the tests to end, so I can spend more time studying biocomputing

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

For many years, I have dreamed of going to medical school and becoming more deeply involved in science.

I have already started medical school, while also working full time, and today is my last day at Bola AI.

I am deeply grateful for everything I have experienced and learned over the past seven years. Thank you, Rushi Ganmukhi, and everyone who has been part of this journey.

This does not mean I am leaving computer engineering behind. In fact, it means exactly the opposite. I want to work at the intersection of Medicine, Biology, and Engineering.

The plan is big.

I want to help build things that make the best possible treatment accessible to every patient, whether they are in the best hospital in the country or in a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Everyone should have access to the best exams, the best surgeries, the best medications, and the best care we are capable of providing.

I understand that death is part of life and part of medicine. What I cannot accept is people dying without us using every possible resource to try to save them. And if those resources are too expensive, then we need to find ways to make them affordable and available to everyone.

From now on, I will be sharing more here about medicine and technology: ideas, plans, what I am studying, what I am learning, and where I hope this path will lead.

I am also open to consulting or part-time opportunities, as long as they are connected to science, medicine, biology, or technology with a meaningful impact.

This is the beginning of a new chapter.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

5/ I was incredibly impressed by the surgeons. They were truly top-notch and taught me so much.

I’m very grateful for their patience, and willingness to share their knowledge.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

Yesterday, I fulfilled a dream: I watched a surgery being performed using the da Vinci X by @IntuitiveSurg.

As both a software engineer and a medical student, I was in heaven. Robotics, anatomy, imaging, precision. Many things I love in one room.

One thing I noticed...

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4/ I also kept thinking about surgical navigation.
Could we use LiDAR combined with the patients images (MRI, CT, ultrasound, PET).
The goal would be a real-time "map" that helps the surgeon understand exactly where they are, what direction they’re moving, and how deep they are inside the patient.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

Do we need more pills?

Or are we already taking “medications” every day without calling them that: caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, overstimulation, sugar, ultra-processed food, social media, chronic stress, sedentary living, sleep deprivation and much more?

Maybe treatment is sometimes about subtraction, not addition.

[Augusto Monteiro @augustnmonteiro]

should I buy a macstudio m3 ultra with 96gb or a macbook m5 128gb?
If I get the macbook I loose 10 CPUs and 20 GPUs cores but I can have it with me everywhere and I don't rely on network connection to run something using my own infra.