It has helped me personally solve longer chronic problems in my family that doctors just dont have the time to go into indepth due to their (understandable) lack of time.
Its in alpha and AI hallucinates. Use with care. Feedback welcome.
An AI agent for personalized healthcare is inevitable. The cases such as the one posted are all solvable with time. AI has hallucinated and continues to hallucinate but the value we get in the space of coding can be extended to other domains.
I use a variation of this. I call it “lets do miserable toil together” or “misery loves company”.
Where if there is a lot of gruntwork that is plain toil and is unpleasant to do solo. I plan a time window in advance that a bunch of people get together to do that same work.
Gives team support to individual, gets the work done fast and makes it less unpleasant.
- corporations are inherently evil. They are akin to criminals.
Every single time the author has never run a business that is equivalent at the scale of the business being criticized.
And they attribute to malice that can be explained with systematic incentives or complex interactions between various complex components in a dynamic world.
OPs projects/expertise while they claim to not be a (weird af definition) bureaucrat -
“General things I can do for your business:
Mathematical and statistical modeling
Data architecture
Predictive analytics, statistical modeling and machine learning
Physics/technology assessment and development
Data science team building/recruiting
Data reporting engines
Technical writing
Writing for technical and general audiences
Time series databases”
No more explanation needed. Do not hire this person.
Perhaps fcc should look at India’s regulatory mechanism for sim swap solution.
They disable SMSes altogether for 48 hrs when a new sim is given. This gives enough time for a victim to go to a physical location to resolve the issue. It doesn’t solve it 100% but definitely introduces enough friction to put a dent in the efficiency of the attackers.
Zerodha has had the good fortune of ending up building a good product whilst the market needed it.
If the pandemic had not happened, the growth would not have been what it is right now and that is when “build it and the users will come” philosophy stops working.
The engagement metrics do work, but just like everything else in life, if you overoptimize for any one thing, it is detrimental (eg- drinking water in excess is harmful).
Zerodha was already India's largest broker more than a year before the pandemic happened[1]. The stuff mentioned in the post isn't something they're just starting to do now; they've been doing it since the beginning. They did benefit immensely from the pandemic stock frenzy, but they were very successful much before it happened.
I've been a user for more than three years, and have never seen a single pop-up or ad or basically any kind of nudge from Zerodha regarding signing up for any of their products. There are third-party add-ons (like Tickertape), but they explicitly make people aware that these are separate products with their own terms, conditions and fees if any. This is very much appreciated by users, and they tend to have fewer complaints per user in comparison to the competition[2].
They've grown primarily because they're good at what they do, and there is no catch regarding any of their products. Rest of the financial industry in India is a cesspool with a massive buyer-beware attitude, which is an instant turn-off for most people, but there weren't many other options until recently.
The one thing I find wrong about the post is that they aren't track-free; I notice Google Analytics being blocked on ublock origin. Hard to disagree with anything else.
As a happy Zerodha user since 2017, I agree with all of this. Even if the pandemic would not have happened, Zerodha would still be India's largest, most profitable broker.
I don't think "engagement metrics" work. I mean, the objective of any business should be to make profit, so the metric that should matter is ultimately the average revenue per user. Engagement may in some cases correlate but why use a proxy when you can use the most important metric directly?
"engagement" only comes into play when you don't have a business model to begin with (and instead hope to carry on raising more VC money or sell to a bigger sucker) so that's the "best" you can do because your actual ARPU is negative.
They do work. You can draw a straight line from “Engagement metrics” to a working business model that generates real revenue. There are several B2C products that derive their value from engagement. And it is frequently a leading indicator of how viable a product can be.
But like all metrics, one should not over optimize on any one metric - be it engagement, revenue, growth rate etc.
The biggest issue has been a lack of balance between engagement and usability which unfortunately has been dominated by engagement over usability.
I think engagement comes into play in both scenarios (having and not having a business model) and is really detrimental in the latter case.
But if you have a business model then looking at engagement metrics can be incredibly useful in informing a lot of product decisions and shouldn't be disregarded. Just a mistake IMO to optimize for it alone in the absence of other things.
I have been writing a book about how software developers should approach taking care of their mental health - self.debug. You can download it for free here - https://leanpub.com/selfdebug
Its rough and incomplete. Would be great to get some feedback on this.
I've not finished it yet, but I can say I was a bit... wary because it hadn't been touched in ... 18 months I think? No shade on the author there - putting your work out there is great.
I'm only about 15% through it so far, but it's not bad.
I havent had the mindspace to continue working on it since the startup I cofounded has taken off due to covid. Context - We provide medical diagnostic tests B2C in India.
Thank you for the followup. And thank you for the writing (and the free option). I like what I've read so far, and plan to digest more in the next few days. You may have moved on, but I'd encourage you to try to wrap it up, and give it a "it's done" stamp, in whatever form it is.
https://karankurani.github.io/OpenCareLoop/
It has helped me personally solve longer chronic problems in my family that doctors just dont have the time to go into indepth due to their (understandable) lack of time.
Its in alpha and AI hallucinates. Use with care. Feedback welcome.
An AI agent for personalized healthcare is inevitable. The cases such as the one posted are all solvable with time. AI has hallucinated and continues to hallucinate but the value we get in the space of coding can be extended to other domains.