Machine learning for novel medical devices

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lowpass:

Thoughts on machine learning, productivity, attention, philosophy, and more.

I write a lot, so why not make it public? Here’s where the existential becomes practical, and clarity creates agency and action.

Like a low pass filter, this writing aims to cut through high frequency noise and get to what matters.

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Recent Essays

Do I use LLMs for writing?

I do a lot of writing, so naturally LLMs would become my best friend and a miraculous force multiplier, right?

Maybe, if it weren’t for the dead coal-mine canary, and (shudders) all that strawberry Jell-o.

Yuck.

Is it Really a Test Set?

We’ve followed best practice, stratifying, splitting, and holding out datasets. We should be good, right?

Well…

Bored is the New Fit: Part II

Demogorgons, radio towers, and regulatory stickers. Just a typical Tuesday afternoon in the lowpass blog.

Part two of this trilogy of essays discusses research around the “distracted mind”. Our solution? Read on.

"While from some perspectives this may be considered a more enlightened time, our behavior in this domain seems to be completely incongruent with the very nature of our pursuit of our goals—something that is fundamental to our very humanity." - The Distracted Mind

Bored is the New Fit: Part 1

Is the “eternal stimulus” really our friend? In part one of this trilogy of essays, we discuss the environment behind our peculiar attention-destroying behavior, and lay the foundation for the solution to our “distracted minds”.

Drowning in Information: The Solution

Useless information is harmful and limits our agency. What now? The solution increases our ability to influence the world around us while also freeing us from needing to watch every season of whatever mediocre TV show is popular now.