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I work at a telemedicine company. We’ve benchmarked a few frontier LLMs on public medical imaging datasets. One test included high-quality and high-consensus otoscopic images. We d…

Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatri…

Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatri…

Agreed here. A key theme, which isn’t terribly explicit in this post, is that your codebase is your context. I’ve found that when my agent flies off the rails, it’s due to an under…

I applied in early 2021. Getting rejected from any company carries a sting, but I was grateful to have gone through the process. I didn’t realize at the time, but Oxide’s applicati…

Past the basic setup, what are people doing to grease the tracks for these tools? That is, how are people organizing their context and codebase to help the tooling guide themselves…

This is buried in a footnote, but worth clarifying: "How Life Works" offers much more than just the history of our understanding of biology. Oxide and Friends has good coverage on …

Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatri…

Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatri…

> but why does this have to be the case? From the essay’s context, I take it to mean “is benefitted by” rather than “must absolutely”. Maybe my world view is distorted by Zinsser b…

I’m a sucker for when the form serves as an example for the author’s idea. > If it were, it wouldn't be good, because the rhythm of good writing has to match the ideas in it, and i…

Love this post. Writing on programming languages has changed how I think about _programming_ in general. I often think about this quote from TAPL. This framing of “safety” changed …

Blueberry Pediatrics | Full-stack Senior or Staff Engineer | REMOTE (US only) American healthcare is seldom affordable, accessible, or high-quality. We are fixing this for pediatri…