Vikas Chowdhry
@vikas-chowdhry.bsky.social
Bridging the gap between Healthcare & AI. Currently building https://TraumaCare.AI. Chicago Booth, ex-Epic, ex-Parkland Health. Proud immigrant.
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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
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
May 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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
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)!
May 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The fundamental problem with healthcare is that it is a non-competitive market full of distortions. Very unfriendly to startups (and innovation)!
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“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
April 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“You can’t say people are our most important product and then treat them like shit.” - Jim Sinegal, co-founder of Costco
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Then and now. From envy to enemy.
April 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Then and now. From envy to enemy.
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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
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.
www.tomsguide.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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
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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.
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.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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.
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
#Stationary #Japanese-Stationary #Pens
March 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
These pens are gorgeous to hold and amazing to write! Winners of the Japanese Stationary Awards for 2025.
#Stationary #Japanese-Stationary #Pens
#Stationary #Japanese-Stationary #Pens
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Notably, this discovery was made possible by being *unfamiliar* with the literature, demonstrating a super power of not learning the conventional wisdom.
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
wrd.cm
March 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Notably, this discovery was made possible by being *unfamiliar* with the literature, demonstrating a super power of not learning the conventional wisdom.
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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.
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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.
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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
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
March 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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
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
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Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post
February 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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.
February 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Let me tell you about a company that built a new state of matter for Quantum Computing but could not fix this.
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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
February 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.
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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.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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.
Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.
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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.
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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.
This title of the book for what we are now seeing in the U.S. is just The Destruction of Medicine.
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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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! 🙏
youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?...
Thanks, Noam and Dwarkesh! 🙏
youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?...
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer – 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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! 🙏
youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?...
Thanks, Noam and Dwarkesh! 🙏
youtu.be/v0gjI__RyCY?...
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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...
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...
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.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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...
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...
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🧪 A global survey of 708 radiologists finds burnout is still a major issue, despite AI’s promise to help. 57% don’t use AI regularly, though adoption is highest in Australia. 95% see AI’s limits—radiologists remain essential. 🩺💻
Despite AI, burnout continues to dog radiologists
Wasn’t radiology the fastest medical specialty to embrace and adopt AI? And yet burnout continues to afflict many if not most radiologists.
aiin.healthcare
February 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🧪 A global survey of 708 radiologists finds burnout is still a major issue, despite AI’s promise to help. 57% don’t use AI regularly, though adoption is highest in Australia. 95% see AI’s limits—radiologists remain essential. 🩺💻
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Excited to be working with @drjessilyn.bsky.social to review the most interesting papers from January 2024- January 2025 in AI for healthcare. Share with me your favorites by commenting!
January 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Excited to be working with @drjessilyn.bsky.social to review the most interesting papers from January 2024- January 2025 in AI for healthcare. Share with me your favorites by commenting!
Prior Authorization!
January 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Prior Authorization!
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Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
January 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.
We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.