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> Doctor's don't care about that Literally all of them?
When humans talk, they use generalizations (and don't need to annouce them). Here it means that most doctors don't care about that. Follow that rule next time you read such a statement in a context that's not formal math.
That is not even true. We are talking anecdotal evidence here.
> There were big swings in my resting heart rate whenever I got a new Apple Watch, suggesting the devices may not have been tracking the same way. First of all, wrist based HR measurements are not reliable. If you feed ChatGPT a ton of HR data that is just plain wrong, expect a bad result. Everyone who wants to track HR reliably should invest in a chest strap. The VO2 Max calculation is heavily based on your pace at…
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Many of those metrics are population or sampling measures and are confounded by many factors at an individual level. The most notorious of which is BMI; it is practically a category error to infer someone's health or risk by individual BMI, and yet doing so remains widespread amongst people that are supposed to know better. Instrumentation and testing become primarily useful at an individual level to explain or inves…
> The most notorious of which is BMI; it is practically a category error to infer someone's health or risk by individual BMI, and yet doing so remains widespread amongst people that are supposed to know better. BMI works fine for people who aren't very muscular, which is the great majority of people. Waist to height ratio might be more informative for people with higher muscle mass.
I dunno, if the Apple Watch said he had a vo2max of 30, that probably means he can’t run a mile in less than 12 minutes or so. He’s probably not at all healthy…
My hypothesis is that the apple watch estimates higher if you are running rather than pedaling. I definitely don't think my cardio vascular went from poor to great over a month. It seems more likely that it was maybe underestimating, and perhaps now is overestimating.
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Some of the metrics were out of whack, I think my average body temp was up along with my resting heart rate both asleep and awake. It somehow takes all that and gave me a "you might be sick" notification.
How is that predicting in advance though? Sounds like it measured active symptoms like a change in body temp etc. That's not prediction, that's reaction.
I'll preface this with I generally trust doctors. I think on the whole they are well positioned to provide massive benefit to their patients. I will also preface this with saying I do not think any LLM is better than the average doctor and that you are far better served going to your doctor than asking ChatGPT what your health is like on any factor. But I'll also say that the quality of doctors varies massively, and…
For more ambiguous situations where you need actual tests, I am skeptical of using LLMs.
> I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor ... and you won't believe what happened next! Can we do away with the clickbait from MSN? The article is about LLMs misdiagnosing cardiovascular status when given fitness tracker data
I have www.msn.com added to the blocklist of my router's adblock settings so that I can stop seeing nonsense in Skype/Windows. It worked for a while. Of course, the real solution is to stop using Microsoft products, which I did.
A year or so ago, I fed my wife's blood work results into chatgpt and it came back with a terrifying diagnosis. Even after a lot of back and forth it stuck to its guns. We went to a specialist who performed some additional tests and explained that the condition cannot be diagnosed with just the original blood work and said that she did not have the condition. The whole thing was a borderline traumatic ordeal that I'm…
It's interesting because presumably you were too ashamed to tell the doctor "we pasted stuff into chatgpt and it said it means she is sick", because if you had said that he would have looked at the bloodwork and you could have avoided going to a specialist. It's an interesting cognitive dissonance that you both trusted it enough to go to a specialist but not enough to admit using it.