lucidrains

thanks for organizing the meetup! I attended and it was great, will definitely attend the next one

I know what I'm doing this weekend!

Me too! I love Coffeescript, so glad we can finally build things with ecmascript 6!

Actually, Pharmacy is going to become the new Law. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119634/pharmacy-school-cr...

So much talk for so very little. Can we not just celebrate women in tech? We all share this world for a limited time, so who gives a fuck who wears a shinier hat. Its all a game, a game that moves our world towards a better place, a world where we can put down our hats and spend time with each other and allow our benevolent machines to take care of us.

Coming from a wealthy family, can tell you this is the truth.

Family first... unless if your family is that wealthy, materialistic, dysfunctional, and soulless like mine (and yes, they were unhappy, for those curious, not that anyone would change anyone's stance towards money anyways).

After growing up in that environment, I knew money wasn't the answer. Instead, I placed my happiness in learning, helping others, and doing what I believed in. Couldn't be happier now!

There is a great chapter in the book "Hacking Healthcare" that addresses the challenges met with writing software that bests paper. I have linked it below for any software engineers interested in this problem space!

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/hacking-healt...

All of my projects have been in Coffeescript since 3 years ago (over 100k lines of code). Have had almost little to no problems. Like you, feel 10x more productive when I'm using it!

Yes! I am also quite excited for FHIR!

Hey entropy, would love to meetup and talk ideas. I too am a full-stack engineer in SF. Are you free today?

ok, but if you share your apartment, you'd want it to be clean for the sake of your roommates right? if you use your car to pick up a date, you'd want it to be clean and presentable so she'd have a place to sit... it's the same idea with code.

not really, after a couple successful demos to UMich (we knew the doctors that wanted this software), they put us in their pipelines for procurement, and that was 6 months ago! we periodically poll them to see where we are in the bureaucracy, but they keep giving us vague answers. selling to hospitals suck dude, that's what i've realized.

I am working on another medical idea at the moment, a crowdsourced medical expert system. I hope to unveil it on HN by the end of the summer!

If there are any software engineers around the bay area who is thinking of going into medicine, please come talk to me first. Would be happy to share my experiences as someone who left after getting the degree.

Good for you! Health is wealth!

Thanks Rob! Would love for you to participate and help me iterate once I release a prototype in a week or two. I have a colleague at Weill Cornell who may help test drive the system as well. Got your email in my notebook!

This is really interesting, do you have a link to the article?

Yes, it will be open sourced! I want to show engineers just how inanely dumb some of the algorithms in medicine are, and how (I believe) we can start creating publicly usable algorithms to pipe knowledge to the consumers once they get access to a bunch of data from consumer medical devices. Lofty goals, but I will attempt to execute on the idea!

We should get in touch, I've started translating Mycin into CoffeeScript, with the hopes of creating a crowdsourced medical expert system within the summer.

Yeah man, the emperor totally has no clothes. Unfortunately the entire field is insulated from disruption until we can get clinical data into the consumer's hands.

There is really nothing too intriguing about 'clinical reasoning'. Diagnosis is simply a collection of crude algorithms, some decision tree based, some are rule based, other's a crude criteria or point based system (poor mans Bayesian). I'm in the process of building a web app on this theme, so get in contact if you are interested!

Has anyone used Elixir in production yet?

If you are in San Francisco, come meet me, I'll be your friend ;)

Where did you hear it is not production ready? I heard it was well funded north of 10 million?

Having some experience with creating html5/js multiplayer online games (https://epicmafia.com), I'm eager to see if the Meteor stack is able to scale for this type of application...

Ok. This is actually pretty surprising and welcomed news!

I've since switched to SockJS for all of my projects (after struggling with memory issues in Socket.io 0.9.*). Any compelling reasons to give Socket.io another try?

Meanwhile in medicine we need the AMA to keep physicians in short supply so the wages stay high...

Awesome job dude!