Software Engineer @CuraiHQ ML Healthcare Startup
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Taka Ishikawa retweeted
āOne group I knew at Apple even made āNot a Regressionā T-shirts. If a bug isnāt a regression, they donāt have to fix it. Thatās why the iCloud photo upload bug and the contact syncing bug I mentioned above may never be fixed.ā tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-rā¦
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
Someone should publish the % amount of revenue that comes from at-risk/value based contracts for every provider/care delivery system (over time as a bonus)
Can tell very quickly who's serious about moving away from fee-for-service that way
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
How to improve the quality of health care: "I want every health care encounter to have three constituents : the physician, the patient, and the future patient." - @JamieHeywood. A conversation at @harvardmed's Biomedical Informatics Entrepreneurs Salon with @zakkohane.
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
I completed 16 years in testing
95% of the bugs I found were supposed to have been found during unit testing.
It amazes me that I have built a career out of finding things I was not supposed to.
Long live unit testing.
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
Parahawking is an activity that combines paragliding with falconry. Birds of prey are trained to fly with paragliders, guiding them to thermal columns buff.ly/2FFNIGy [gif: buff.ly/2KZ11pq]
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
New work! In collaboration with @landmaad @DBatesSafety @BrighamWomens @PartnersNews @MassGeneralNews: Comparing Characteristics of Patients Who Connect Their iPhones to an EHR vs Patients Who Connect Without Personal Devices jmir.org/2019/8/e14871/ (1/n)
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
New post on our techblog: "Constant Vigilance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Alerts with Helm and Prometheus" medium.com/curai-tech/constaā¦
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
A strategy for thinking clearly:
Rather than trying to be right, assume you are wrong and try to be less wrong.
Trying to be right has a tendency to devolve into protecting your beliefs.
Trying to be less wrong has a tendency to prompt more questions and intellectual humility.
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
This a truly special group and is an absolute privilege to be a part of. No matter where it ends up, itās an experience I know Iām going to look back fondly on for the rest of my life.
Iām biased, but this is a group and a mission you want to join.
curai.com/careers
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
New post on our tech blog: "Porting a legacy application to the cloud" by @Viggyfresh medium.com/curai-tech/portinā¦
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
When we think of medical records now we think of results of discrete events like doctor visits and blood tests and scans, but in a few decades it will be more like sensor data.
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
For folks asking, I wrote a pretty in-depth post on this when I was @GoTurbine āDeploy != Releaseā blog.turbinelabs.io/deploy-nā¦ And @copyconstruct wrote a fantastic piece on testing in production that provides deep context on why the distinction matters link.medium.com/MwnCtYTo1X
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
This week we had a great presentation on "Giving and receiving feedback" by @aliglenesk - Slides here: docs.google.com/presentationā¦
Taka Ishikawa retweeted
Well-meaning teachers encourage my kids to use more "vocabulary" words in their writing. I tell them that on this one point they can ignore their teachers, because the best writing uses the simplest possible words.
