Vikas Chowdhry

I don’t know what Microsoft does in 2025, but:

1. Nontechnical family members using Windows are riddled with malware - websites hijacking’s their Edge defaults, notifications, tricking them to installing all sorts garbage

2. Those using Apple products have NONE of this

The fundamental problem with healthcare is that it is a non-competitive market full of distortions. Very unfriendly to startups (and innovation)!

“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco

Unbelievable that we had this as our option for the first family and said - “never mind”!

It’s paywalled! I really do wish that medical researchers stop publishing research behind paywalls! Most of these are taxpayer funded and should be publicly available.

Pretty good study design. The vignette comparing AMIE and PCP response is very interesting. I wish they had included more of those vignettes in the paper. This feels like a significant step forward.

Then and now. From envy to enemy.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now free to all users in surprise move Surprise move comes just days after Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental arrived for Advanced subscribers.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is now free to all users in surprise move https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/gemini-2-5-pro-is-now-free-to-all-users-in-surprise-move #AI #Gemini

Agree! And not just 'heart-failure'. Names of various conditions linked to the heart are so confusing for common people (Heart Attack? Cardiac Arrest?).

Kefir!

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

These pens are gorgeous to hold and amazing to write! Winners of the Japanese Stationary Awards for 2025.
#Stationary #Japanese-Stationary #Pens

Notably, this discovery was made possible by being *unfamiliar* with the literature, demonstrating a super power of not learning the conventional wisdom.

“Trump’s dozen”!

That's right

From what I can tell, the 18F group within the federal government was one of the most effective teams at bringing modern software practices and modernizing many government agencies' approach to technology. Laying off people in this group seems antithetical to improving government efficiency.

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

Let me tell you about a company that built a new state of matter for Quantum Computing but could not fix this.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models.

Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.

It’s probably also more expensive to ship them - more weight and volume.

I wrote a book The Creative Destruction of Medicine (2013, title adopted after Schumpeter).

This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI

Delighted to have joined my good friend & colleague Noam Shazeer on a podcast with @dwarkesh.bsky.social for a 2+ hour discussion on early Google, ML hardware, training 1T+ token LLMs in '07, model sparsity, continual learning, and more.

Thanks, Noam and Dwarkesh! 🙏

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You meant “are in support of vector machines”, right?

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

The Investor Betting on People In Their 50s and 60s—Because Older Is Better Forget what you think you know about brilliant young entrepreneurs. Most people who start successful companies are in middle age or beyond.

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