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Data for good.

Co-Founder at Empirical Health (https://empirical.health). Don't die of heart disease.

Before: Co-Founder @ Cardiogram (ML for heart health)

  CTO at Sift Science (YC S11, machine learning to fight fraud)

  Data Science @ UCSF Cardiology

  HealthCare.gov rescue team

  Google (Android speech recognition, search ads ML)
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Do rich people live longer?
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Apple Is Scaling Back Plans for New AI-Based Health Coach Service
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 5:35pm PST
Apple reportedly scales back plans for AI-powered health coach
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 4:49pm PST
Meta-analysis claims statins are safer than previously thought
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 1:51am PST
U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high
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Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Health
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 1:37am PST
Kleiner Perkins was written off. Then an unlikely VC showed up
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 7:45pm PST
Men develop cardiovascular disease 7 years earlier than women. Why?
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 4:38pm PST
A multimodal sleep foundation model for disease prediction
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:35pm PST
Men's heart attack risk climbs by mid-30s, years before women
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 2:31pm PST
Curbing unnecessary Vitamin D testing
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:40pm PST
Shaping capabilities with token-level data filtering
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:40pm PST
Lp(a): the strongest hereditary risk factor for heart disease
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:34pm PST
Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron (2017)
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Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:13pm PST
Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:44pm PST
I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:05pm PST
Why Ramp Won
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Sun Jan 25, 2026 10:58pm PST
Quantum Machine Learning Is Emerging as a Practical Tool for Drug Discovery
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Sun Jan 25, 2026 9:03pm PST
Tim Cook taps John Ternus to oversee Apple's design teams
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Sun Jan 25, 2026 8:56pm PST
Ramp vs. Brex: How the underdog won
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Sun Jan 25, 2026 8:54pm PST
Cholesterol levels cut in half with one-time gene editing drug in trial
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 1:19pm PST
Health trackers know you didn't sleep well. Does that help or hurt?
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:03am PST
Health insurance execs shift blame for costly, confusing health care system
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 12:24am PST
Brex CFO Erica Dorfman's Take on the Capital One Deal
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 12:17am PST
Smartwatches detect abnormal heart rhythms 4x more often in clinical trial
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Fri Jan 23, 2026 9:56pm PST
It's Time for Primary Prevention in Medicine
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 9:17pm PST
Rewards Are Everywhere
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 12:30am PST
Generative UI: A rich, custom, visual interactive user experience for any prompt
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 11:35pm PST
Heart Disease and Stroke Behind Quarter of All Deaths in U.S.
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 2:21pm PST
Former USDS Leaders Launch Tech Reform Project to Fix What DOGE Broke
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 12:20am PST
Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (NeurIPS 2025)
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Heart Rate Variability
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:00pm PST
When to treat (or not treat) a high cholesterol
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 9:43pm PST
SensorLM: Learning the Language of Wearable Sensors
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:11pm PST
AI beyond LLMs: a wearable foundation model
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 6:02pm PST
Should You Be 'Fibermaxxing'?
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:56pm PST
Exposing muscle tissue to blood from Long Covid patients weakens mitochondria
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 7:39pm PST
FDA paves way for more consumer wearables to hit the market
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Researchers use Apple Watch to train a disease-detection AI
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 3:36pm PST
Quest for a drug that lowers an artery-clogging particle nears finish line
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 12:20pm PST
ARPA-H launches program for the 46% of U.S. counties don't have a cardiologist
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Sun Jan 11, 2026 3:05pm PST
The role of LDL cholesterol in ASCVD
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Sat Jan 10, 2026 2:16pm PST
Startup Wants to Bring Cancer Patients Care at Home
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Fri Jan 9, 2026 2:17am PST
Apple Watch blood sugar monitoring a step closer as new tech launches
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Thurs Jan 8, 2026 8:53pm PST
The Rise of the Self-Serve Blood Test
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Tues Jan 6, 2026 4:14pm PST
Artificial intelligence begins prescribing medications in Utah
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 9:13pm PST
Study: People use heart‑monitoring devices but don't share data with doctors
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 6:18pm PST
Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process [pdf]
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 6:09pm PST
Cocktail Science in General (2010)
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 6:07pm PST
High Lp(a) Linked to Ascvd Risk Even When LDL Cholesterol Is Low
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Sun Jan 4, 2026 5:43pm PST
Potential-Based Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 5:13pm PST
Medicare unveils new model aimed at functional, lifestyle medicine
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Sat Jan 3, 2026 4:21pm PST
Cardiovascular disease is a solved problem
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Yann LeCun: Intelligence is about learning
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Bayesian Geometry of Transformer Attention
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Controlling Blood Sugar Cut Heart Disease Risk in Half, Study Says
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Heart Association Revives Theory That Light Drinking May Be Good for You
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Apple Watch detects 89% of sleep apnea
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Tech Force, a review by the first USDS administrator
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Researchers trained foundation model on 3M days of Apple Watch data
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