Jacob McPadden @jacob_mcpadden
Informatics, neonatology, and blockchains. OMOP enthusiast. Lost in pyspark probably. New Haven, CT Joined April 2016-
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Lessons from Celect: What One Medical Device Taught Us About the Need for Transparency @JACCJournals 1/ In 2007, Celect IVC filter marketed as a safe way to prevent PE. By 2024: lawsuits, safety concerns, & calls for reform. Here’s what we can learn 👇 🔗jacc.org/doi/full/10.10…
somehow RFK won the debate
Leaving the UK after the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park. Some thoughts: I got a good sense of the zeitgeist from this meeting. The motivation for law makers and governments is to make people feel safe. There is a sentiment that AI will be dangerous (likely driven by FUD…
A piece of neural net hardware history: Edi Säckinger with Larry Jackel. Edi is holding a VME board with two Bell Labs ANNA chips (with golden plates on the left side). The ANNA chip is a mixed analog-digital chip specifically designed to run convolutional nets efficiently. It…
Once AI systems become more intelligent than humans, humans we will *still* be the "apex species." Equating intelligence with dominance is the main fallacy of the whole debate about AI existential risk. It's just wrong. Even *within* the human species It's wrong: it's *not* the…
The sum of a collection of positive real numbers is 10. How large can the product of those numbers be?
I’m gonna be making wide use of this meme.
I’m gonna be making wide use of this meme. https://t.co/6iHY5MkeBU
- Engineer: I invented this new thing. I call it a ballpen 🖊️ - TwitterSphere: OMG, people could write horrible things with it, like misinformation, propaganda, hate speech. Ban it now! - Writing Doomers: imagine if everyone can get a ballpen. This could destroy society. There…
NYT "AI" explainer misleads. Deep learning techniques date from the 1980s, & "AI" had been hot/cold for decades, not slow until 2012. There was no new "single idea" in 2012. What WAS new, & propelled the AI boom, was concentrated resources (data/compute) controlled by tech cos 1/
So proud of this amazing physician scientist. Presenting her work at ESPR #espr @BunmiOlaloye @YalePediatrics
Excited to announce that @sarahntaylorneo has been named section chief of neonatal-perinatal medicine at Yale Pediatrics at @YaleMed! Read more about her expertise and her new role here: medicine.yale.edu/pediatrics/new… #MedTwitter
1/82 I'll be pinning this detailed timeline, as my final piece covering this topic, as now the case is closed in my mind. This was a crime plain and simple and I'll put no more wind in this criminals sails: FTX: Meltdown. The definitive and chronological thread.
I'll read it later
Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, begging her collaborator Charles Babbage, the inventor of the first general computer, not to mess with her math
Bill Russell story… Senior year of college. I’m the GM of our student radio station. Get a PR pitch email asking if we are interested in interviewing Mr. Russell, who was promoting what I recall to be an arthritis medication….
Golden Rule: Never start reading an unfinished fantasy book series unless it's written by Brandon Sanderson.
Golden Rule: Never start reading an unfinished fantasy book series unless it's written by Brandon Sanderson.
We have several positions in the group including associate research scientist and several post-docs. Interested in early human immune development, this is your chance. Using system's biology approaches, we aim to better understand fetal and neonatal immunity. @YalePediatrics
So excited for @catybuck and her award for her work to identify how we can decrease preterm infant’s risk for obesity! @YalePediatrics
So for years I have had pretty bad skin problems. For seemingly no reason my face would start burning & within hours would result in horrible read blotches appearing on my cheeks and nose. After years, I have finally worked out why. Come with me on a flakey adventure. Thread:

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