Scott Marlette
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Scott Marlette
@marlette
Co-Founder, GoodRx
California, USA Katılım Mart 2007
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My house has a high end smart home lighting system that a previous owner installed (Lutron Homeworks QS). It’s extremely reliable and I’ve had zero issues with it over the years.
But, I’d never buy it myself. You can’t reprogram it without calling a certified installer. In the Bay Area that’s a $500 trip. 🙃
It bothered me so much that I even considered getting certified and selling just enough Lutron gear to get an installer login.
Until I introduced Opus 4.6 to the problem, that is.
I now have full access and a working Rust implementation reverse-engineered from a terrible C# app (that Opus rewrote to avoid phoning home to Lutron).
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Claude: 1
Lutron: 0
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Scott Marlette retweetledi
LA hates restaurants
Beethoven Market got their liquor license revoked because someone who bought their Mar Vista House for 7 strawberries and a pack of gum was so upset about the "noise" they filed 49 complaints
It's a beautiful restaurant and it's great for the area. WTF
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Eggs are not a high protein food. Roughly 7g protein per 100cal doesn’t cut it. Needs to be 10 to 100 protein density.
N8@Vararse_
Bro what the hell are you supposed to eat for breakfast when tryna get protein in. I’ve had eggs every day this week ffs
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Some of this is just timing. Trump EPA eliminated start-stop reset. 2015-2025 were the dark years. But agree most designers don’t use product, things like Porsche not having start stop or garage physical button. They clearly don’t park in a garage or live in US. I would love to see the Rivian seat heat/cool algorithm for which icon they show. It’s completely random even though the car knows current AC settings.
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My raptor is the first modern car I’ve owned where it’s clear someone actually deeply cared about the cx..
- physical buttons for everything that matters
- CarPlay that works every single time and never cuts out
- turning off features you don’t want means they stay off (lane keep, start stop, etc)
- automation is actually smart: steering wheel and seat heaters automatically come on at low temps
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@petergyang @erikbryn It’s actually quite good. America has one life expectancy on par with other developed nations after reaching 65.
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@erikbryn The American healthcare system is screwed up I doubt it’s good at extending lifespan
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When a society gets richer, it is able to spend proportionately less on food and clothing and more on extending healthspan.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
Healthcare ate our economy
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@DrAndyGalpin If the data is rerun for VO2 per lean kg body mass do the values normalize? Fat mass is only
Contributing to the denominator. I’ve often wondered if this is a better metric even in men to calibrate on “sufficient” capacity. Then one can focus on body composition.
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Fascinating data; illuminating why VO2max is higher in men than women.
Effectively, nearly all of the differences melt away once you account for (equate) lean muscle mass.
"The heart's capacity to pump blood and perfuse the exercising muscles is similar between sexes when scaled to muscle mass."
The difference appears driven mostly by women having ~10% less haemoglobin.
"Despite similar perfusion, oxygen delivery per exercising muscle mass is approximately 10% lower in females than males, caused by a 10% lower blood haemoglobin concentration and oxygen-carrying capacity."
This is NOT caused by differences the ability to extract oxygen in muscle, capillaries, or mitochondria.
"Conversely, the fractional oxygen extraction by the skeletal muscles, along with their mitochondria and capillary densities, are similar between sexes."
These findings demonstrate that sex differences in body composition and haemoglobin concentration are the primary mechanisms underpinning the lower body-mass normalised maximal oxygen uptake in females compared to males.
Note: This particular study was in highly trained individuals; if you don't account for training status, then all bets are off for VO2max or similar endpoints.
PMID: 40974561
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Scott Marlette retweetledi
I couldn’t be more proud of my former partners at Slow Ventures for being Time Magazine’s 170th best venture capital firm in the world. Excited to have played a small part.
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@nikillinit Post data about error rates. This works for hospitals even if it’s not widely used. Let people compare data and the market will determine the outcome.
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How should we compare AI mistakes vs human mistakes in healthcare?
Doctors make mistakes all the time, but it’s not like we remove the medical license of a doc if they make a few mistakes. The bar for AI is way higher - it has to be nearly perfect and tested in every possible scenario. As soon as it makes a few mistakes at the edges, we feel uncomfortable about putting it into production.
It also raises some questions around whether “concordance with what the doctor said” is really the metric to measure. What if it’s being compared to a bad doctor? We probably wouldn’t want them to get the same answers then.
There’s probably a few reasons around this. We have a liability framework for doctors making mistakes in the form of malpractice. Doctors have a code of ethics rule, review boards, and social feedback that push them to do the right thing. We’re still figuring out how to deal with liability if AI gets something wrong and what motivates them to do the right thing. Why does mine keep agreeing with me? (Other than the fact that I’m right).
But if AI is already better than the bottom quartile of docs who are consistently getting simple cases wrong, we should already be getting this out there? Wait but how do we identify who’s in the bottom quartile of docs?
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I would’ve totally done this when I was younger. As a teenager I used to wake up before school because the online game servers were faster. So much more productive.
typedfemale@typedfemale
man adopts polyphasic sleep schedule due to claude code usage limits
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Getting money laundering vibes. Would be cool if this works but bank protections exist for a reason.
Victor Cardenas Codriansky@victorcardenas
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@tjparker Did you feed the sourdough starter before or after the coffee?
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@yishan If you read The Warren Buffet Way it’s all about executives and founders and leader vetting. Amazing they were able to do this so early but amazing outcome.
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I just learned that Warren Buffett's investment in BYD wasn't a recent thing - he invested in 2008!
That makes no sense to me based on what I know about Buffett's (professed) strategy. BYD was making mediocre cars and batteries that were nowhere near competitive in terms of price and performance. Tesla's own Roadster at the time was an overpriced trophy toy for tech bros.
I could see some visionary VC making this bet based on macro analysis of battery/energy trends, but Warren Buffett? BYD's sales didn't take off until 2021!
Buffett is not known for making tech decisions - the closest I can come to it is "BYD was cheap" but it wasn't market dominant in 2008. They had just launched a plug-in hybrid (admittedly the world's first) but those have never been a pivotal product.
Buffett's famous "first tech bet" purchase of Apple wasn't until 2016, but apparently nearly a decade earlier in 2008 he was into... mediocre electric cars? What did he see that no one else saw?
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I’m going with lift, clean and place in the fairway. I understand divot relief being complicated but one club length in the fairway isn’t changing anything.
NUCLR GOLF@NUCLRGOLF
🚨🏌️😠 #WATCH — Shane Lowry is PISSED after he was not given relief for an embedded ball. Should he have got relief?
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