It has helped me personally solve longer chronic problems in my family that doctors just dont have the time to go into indepth due to their (understandable) lack of time.
Its in alpha and AI hallucinates. Use with care. Feedback welcome.
An AI agent for personalized healthcare is inevitable. The cases such as the one posted are all solvable with time. AI has hallucinated and continues to hallucinate but the value we get in the space of coding can be extended to other domains.
I use a variation of this. I call it “lets do miserable toil together” or “misery loves company”.
Where if there is a lot of gruntwork that is plain toil and is unpleasant to do solo. I plan a time window in advance that a bunch of people get together to do that same work.
Gives team support to individual, gets the work done fast and makes it less unpleasant.
- corporations are inherently evil. They are akin to criminals.
Every single time the author has never run a business that is equivalent at the scale of the business being criticized.
And they attribute to malice that can be explained with systematic incentives or complex interactions between various complex components in a dynamic world.
OPs projects/expertise while they claim to not be a (weird af definition) bureaucrat -
“General things I can do for your business:
Mathematical and statistical modeling
Data architecture
Predictive analytics, statistical modeling and machine learning
Physics/technology assessment and development
Data science team building/recruiting
Data reporting engines
Technical writing
Writing for technical and general audiences
Time series databases”
No more explanation needed. Do not hire this person.
Perhaps fcc should look at India’s regulatory mechanism for sim swap solution.
They disable SMSes altogether for 48 hrs when a new sim is given. This gives enough time for a victim to go to a physical location to resolve the issue. It doesn’t solve it 100% but definitely introduces enough friction to put a dent in the efficiency of the attackers.
They do work. You can draw a straight line from “Engagement metrics” to a working business model that generates real revenue. There are several B2C products that derive their value from engagement. And it is frequently a leading indicator of how viable a product can be.
But like all metrics, one should not over optimize on any one metric - be it engagement, revenue, growth rate etc.
The biggest issue has been a lack of balance between engagement and usability which unfortunately has been dominated by engagement over usability.
Zerodha has had the good fortune of ending up building a good product whilst the market needed it.
If the pandemic had not happened, the growth would not have been what it is right now and that is when “build it and the users will come” philosophy stops working.
The engagement metrics do work, but just like everything else in life, if you overoptimize for any one thing, it is detrimental (eg- drinking water in excess is harmful).
I havent had the mindspace to continue working on it since the startup I cofounded has taken off due to covid. Context - We provide medical diagnostic tests B2C in India.
I have been writing a book about how software developers should approach taking care of their mental health - self.debug. You can download it for free here - https://leanpub.com/selfdebug
Its rough and incomplete. Would be great to get some feedback on this.
1. The cost for a setup and maintenance is $2M for an entire Tier 1 city in India - that's peanuts compared to the revenue you will generate if the general public starts using the network and pays for it. You can self fund this to a large scale.
2. Wifi Dabba as an entity controls this infrastructure and that entity also controls the software that powers the infrastructure. The PoP is not an independent entity working in a decentralized matter. If the Indian govt says Wifi Dabba as an entity has to shut down - it can easily do so without any problems and the network goes down with it. So its hard to agree that this solution is truly decentralized.
3. There was some weird calculation error on $13.2M figure. I fixed it - sorry about that.
4. That I understand, but my question isn't about the legitimacy of the fundraise.
Apart from point #2 - my original question is not addressed.
Have you explored and ruled out traditional forms of financial instruments? If yes - why?
If not - why not do that first for 1 or 2 cities and then the model can be flipped into public retail investment/franchise model at a later point once you prove a successful rollout on a city scale.
Interested, but few questions - There are several "traditional" financial instruments you can use to fund this rollout across Bangalore.
This includes but is not limited to - Bank Debt, Venture Debt, Equity, Revenue Share based Debt, indie.vc style debt (revenue share debt payback), ads on billboards below/above/next to the wifi towers and so on.
Why go the public retail investor/franchise model route? Are all of the above exhausted or infeasible? If so - why?
Further, the network doesn't require a city coverage for it to work. It can be added piecemeal over time. Thus, you don't need the entire city coverage to start with - but major population dense areas to make the $20k payback in a few months. And the profits there on can be reinvested into more PoPs. Starting capital is $1.3M - its not hard to raise with a working solid business - in debt format if you don't want to give up equity.
I find such broad sweeping projections about population growth, big population numbers = more power, “eclipsing USA” and further conclusions emanating from this kind of line of thinking making zero sense.
Nobody has a clue on how population growth is going to be in next 30 yrs for both China and India. Its too dynamic and impossible to forecast, let alone make broad sweeping action items to advocate for.
We disabled all ML enabled predictive features when the pandemic began.
This has prevented us from the pain of having “bad” unreliable predictions which are worse than having “no” predictions. This saved us a lot of pain in maintainence and debugging.
https://karankurani.github.io/OpenCareLoop/
It has helped me personally solve longer chronic problems in my family that doctors just dont have the time to go into indepth due to their (understandable) lack of time.
Its in alpha and AI hallucinates. Use with care. Feedback welcome.
An AI agent for personalized healthcare is inevitable. The cases such as the one posted are all solvable with time. AI has hallucinated and continues to hallucinate but the value we get in the space of coding can be extended to other domains.