Tech bros on X took the false positive and gave it mood lighting.
Scan a healthy person.
Find a harmless shadow.
Call it early detection.
Sell the follow-up.
Repeat until the customer dies or the venture fund exits.
Scans do not disrupt medicine, they do industrialize anxiety.
Hard pill to swallow:
You don't actually want to achieve your goals as much as you think. You just want the identity that comes with them.
There's a massive difference between performing goals and pursuing them.
published a new essay on my blog! "Building AI products in the Probabilistic Era"
admittedly it's a very long one (took months to write), but i've tried to condense everything i learned while working on one of the most popular and influential AI products in the world
turned up to be almost an argument for why i'm an AI maximalist. an exploration of the epistemological change we're going through as an industry - going from the deterministic nature of traditional software, to the weird uncertainty principle of stochastic models
very much like 15 years ago we came up with a new way of running companies on the internet ("product led growth"), building and growing AI apps requires its own whole new discipline
(dropping link below to please the twitter algo gods)
Last month @AnkerOfficial recalled over one million power banks due to an unspecified battery manufacturing issue. We CT scanned 3 recalled power banks and 2 that weren’t recalled to see what’s going on inside. Here’s what we found…
Buying a business is hard, and often you do not know where to start, or what to cover in due diligence. Here is a quick guide to help: https://t.co/KaWzGoe8UE