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Josh Mandel, MD
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Physician, programmer, and would-be pâtissier/poet. Chief Architect for Microsoft and SMART Health IT.

Health tech policy, interoperability, FHIR, AI, web.
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I used 50 leftover o3 credits to test ChatGPT’s vision capabilities on cryptic crossword grids. Pure vision failed; combining vision with code got there.

Web app: chatgpt.com/canvas/share...

Blog post: www.linkedin.com/pulse/o3-mee...
May 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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turkeydown: a markdown-shaped, LLM-powered prompt flow for meal prep and more 🦃 🎉

My Thanksgiving 2024 template, defining processing logic:
github.com/jmandel/turk...

Output including prep plan, shopping list, & full recipe set for everything we're cooking this Thursday:
github.com/jmandel/turk...
November 26, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Thanksgiving prep with LLMs. Here's my recipe:

0. Decide what to cook
1. Put all recipes (or dish ideas) in project context
2. Request
* 4 day prep plan
* All recipes with consistent formatting
* All ingredients in a combined shopping list
November 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM
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❤️ CDC's NVSS: It's *amazing* that anyone can download 200MB .zip with ~all 3.6M USA births in 2023, including dozens of row-level attributes to answer questions like "when and how did women deliver, given specific assumptions for age, educational status, BMI?"

joshuamandel.com/birth-analysis
This graph shows birth outcomes data after 33 weeks of pregnancy, broken down by delivery method and induction status. The data spans weeks 34-42, with filters for age groups (15-50 years), BMI categories, and education levels. Key observations: 1. Peak births occur around week 39 (approximately 32% of total births) 2. Most common delivery method is Vaginal Non-Operative (both induced and non-induced) 3. C-section rates are relatively consistent across weeks, with slight increases in later weeks 4. Birth rates drop significantly after week 40 The weekly statistics show a progressive increase in births from week 34 (1.7% of total) to week 35 (2.5%) and week 36 (4.7%), with most deliveries being vaginal non-operative. C-section rates remain relatively low but show slight increases in later weeks. The graph shows both elective and medically indicated procedures through the color-coding of induced vs. non-induced deliveries for each method.
November 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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EHI Export insight: >100 individual users (i.e., provider org staff) contributed to some aspect of my EHI in the past 6 years of ambulatory care.

This diagram shows only users & tasks mentioned at least 10 times. (Task labels generated by GPT-4, based on Epic's EHI schema.)
February 15, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Has someone already written a feed generator that matches user profiles to posts, using a language model to generate scores? It'd work like this...

Example input: @jay.bsky.team

Transcript: https://chat.openai.com/share/53e040b9-5b83-410e-8c46-3f55c990c553

Example output: Relevance 9, Quality 8
June 5, 2023 at 10:28 PM
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TFW you open the hotel stairwell door expecting dingy utility vibes and are greeted with a brilliant wall of sunlight.
Hotel stairwell lit with sunlight streaming through a glass wall.
June 5, 2023 at 1:26 PM
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"Cancel my cancel!" -- there is room to improve this UX :-)

See https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/35756 for suggestions

@support.bsky.team
May 4, 2023 at 3:35 PM