Where is the privacy policy? Information about diseases people search for is valuable to a lot of third parties.
Definitely need to add that.
At the moment, we do not make that information public externally.
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Re: Show HN: Medical Research Summarizer – Complex research as simple summaries
#32We've built a system that allows us to translate difficult to read research abstracts and convert them into 4 to 8 bullet point descriptions that are readable by the common person. It's like Blinkist, but for complex research. Our backend consists of a ton of med school students, PhD's, and researchers. I myself had an autoimmune disorder for 10 years, well I still have it, but I've been in remission for the last 2 y…
I think it's amusing that your backend is still human, because really you're just shifting the task onto others, not necessarily solving it. We've "solved it" per se on Experiment by getting good at training other scientists to get good at this. Unfortunately, that's also still pretty technically hard, but we've developed some editorial heuristics. Like a real NLP + UpGoerFive approach would be awesome and a real val…
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's amusing that your backend is still human, because really you're just shifting the task onto others, not necessarily solving it. We've "solved it" per se on Experiment by getting good at training other scientists to get good at this. Unfortunately, that's also still pretty technically hard, but we've developed some editorial heuristics. Like a real NLP + UpGoerFive approach would be awesome and a real val…
"but probably very difficult." Unless I've really missed something, "probably" here means with near certainty enough beyond our current technical capabilities that predicting a timeline is folly.
It's getting closer
Data61 (ex-NICTA) in Australia have a mostly-working thing that parses legislation, compiles it[1] and then checks privacy policies and shows violations[2].
[1] Yes, based on conversations I've had I believe they actually turn it into a byte-code like representation.
[2] http://www.csiro.au/en/Research/D61/Areas/Data-for-decisions...
Re: Show HN: Medical Research Summarizer – Complex research as simple summaries
#34We've built a system that allows us to translate difficult to read research abstracts and convert them into 4 to 8 bullet point descriptions that are readable by the common person. It's like Blinkist, but for complex research. Our backend consists of a ton of med school students, PhD's, and researchers. I myself had an autoimmune disorder for 10 years, well I still have it, but I've been in remission for the last 2 y…
Do you not worry that people who are not researchers, who are providing essentially the "TL;DR" of a disease, will provide incomplete or potentially misleading advice?
I think I've addressed your concern below.
Re: Show HN: Medical Research Summarizer – Complex research as simple summaries
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'll deal with that if it really catches on, but if that happens I'd say it's a better problem to have than no one wanting it at all :) If you have any ideas we'd love to hear them though!
Citation graph analysis might be useful, but I'd have to think about it a bit. I suspect you can make a nearly risk free bet that if there is a significant amount of money being made that depends on the results of a contentious issue in the existing science, there are deep problems in the related literature.
How about CRISPR? There is a tremendous controversy right now over who should get recognized (Nobel? Patents?) for CRISPR's invention