aspirational dog runner @dognosis breathe at home and have peer-reviewed dogs wearing iron-hound suits sniff for cancer - breatheasy.dognosis.tech
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imported my goodreads data on my website and realizing 12yo akash was a savage literary critic
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In the last few months, Dognosis has featured in multiple press outlets and TV channels across 15+ countries. Kinda wild!
The Chosun Ilbo, one of South Korea's leading newspapers, had an article in print on cancer-detection technologies using dogs, insects and nematodes, with Dognosis' technology at its center. Our dogs are quite chuffed and thank reporter Junki Hong for the coverage
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akash kulgod retweeted
it's kinda funny that the innate virality of dogs and cats has generated tons of data to train vision models on and generate vectors of 'companion embodiment'
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tech bros are rediscovering dogs and cats from first-principles
I have really high conviction that the form factor that will make robotics a natural way of life is through cute, relatable, friendly companions that "evolve" with you, recognize your moods, your history, your important relationships & moments.
When we met Raghu & team, what really stood out was their attention to excruciating detail on how the "robot x human" experience (RHX?) would feel like - and I want to stress on "feel" because if an assortment of plastic, metal and sand can evoke emotions in us, we have something important happening.
Simple things like the robo toy "sneezing" when someone is dusting nearby, or turn around to look at you when you call its name, or come running into the room when you say "story time!" -- this is an infinite scope problem as much in need of taste and experience design as it is about robotics / hardware & @eyecandyrobots is building at the forefront of this.
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not throwing shade btw, this is an excellent development. much to learn from our canine and feline comrades, as we're always howling about at dognosis
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Thanks to The Ken for some thoughtful coverage!
Appreciate their acknowledgement that multi-cancer breath test has certain advantages over other modalities for specific use-cases, but disagree with the framing of other players as competitors.
Solving the mammoth problem of early detection at population scale will require stacking orthogonal tests as a 1-2-3 punch. Excited to work with both liquid biopsy as well as imaging companies to achieve this, more to come soon
Sniffing dogs join the race to catch cancer early in India
D2C wellness firms are selling urban rich Rs 25,000 full-body scans that promise more than they can deliver. Dognosis is betting on, well, dog noses to attain the holy grail of cancer screening at a third of the cost
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so is there any reason not to believe that hdfc has been hacked by chinese models at this point? has hdfc been hiding a stellar cybersecurity team all this while?
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i've been thinking about this a fair bit, probably ever since reading situational awareness towards the end of 2023
i'm willing to buy this eventually becomes true, perhaps very soon (within years) but some thoughts on why it may still not be over.
we've been the smartest species on earth for a while but there are still many many things that we and our technology can't do that "dumber" beings can.
dogs sniffing cancer is the canonical example ofc, but there are tons more, like the albatross's dynamic soaring and even nitrogen fixation by bacteria. intelligence does not always equal capability, future AIs could very well be smarter than us but we may still out-edge them in capabilities that are intrinsically useful, especially those that require embodiment and perception.
intelligence too cheap to meter also does not mean all problems magically evaporate and there is no meaning left to be made by solving problems. this becomes clear when you live in a place that clearly has problems that don't require a datacenter of geniuses to solve.
you think bangalore has a lack of intelligent people and that's why it chokes on traffic, trash, and toxins? some problems don't seem to be brute-forceable with intelligence and i suspect there will be many problems that will benefit from humans being in the loop
i don't think nearly anyone, myself included, has truly internalized there'll soon be a machine better than us in every single intellectual & physical capacity
deep down we all share a feeling that our 'entrepreneurship' or 'taste' or... is special & safe. it isn't. it's over
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All sorts of crazy mechanisms on how dogs mirror/map human emotional states
- the oxytocin-gaze positive feedback loop - eye contact with your dog raises your oxytocin, which leads you to pet/play more, which increases dog’s oxytocin which …
- the reverse for cortisol - dogs can sniff out stress which leads them to get stressed themselves which …
- potentially the coolest - dogs exhibit neural synchrony where their brain rhythms seem to share resonant frequencies with humans, as seen in hyperscanning EEG setups
Your dog carries your stress in its body for months. A 2019 study in Scientific Reports measured cortisol in the hair of 58 dogs and their owners over a full year and found that the two rose and fell together. When you are stressed, your dog is stressed. When you calm down, so does it.
The synchrony was not driven by walks, weather, or the dog's own life events. It was driven by the owner. Dogs whose owners scored higher on personality measures of anxiety showed higher cortisol year-round. The dog's body was tracking the owner's emotional state over months, not moments.
The bond between a human and a dog is not a one-way relationship where the human provides and the dog receives. The dog is absorbing the household's emotional weather and carrying it in its endocrine system. Your bad month is its bad month.
This is what 15,000 years of co-evolution looks like. The dog did not just learn to read your face. It learned to sync its chemistry to yours, and the hair on its back is keeping a record of how you have been feeling since the last time it was groomed.
The next time someone says "it's just a dog," the cortisol data says otherwise. The dog is a mirror with a heartbeat, and the reflection goes deeper than behaviour. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3117…
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Keeley - “what is your attachment style?”
Ted - “USB-C”
greatest 1 minute tv dialog in recent history
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i love this phase of sub-1000 followers where it feels like you’re at the local pub w the homies just shooting the shit, the brownian motion (no pun ever intended) of your memes bouncing around and sparking like fireflies in the crisp bay-luru air
so much duller to be famous
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“Only thing money can’t buy is problem statements”
banger quote from dinner with the fantastic @vivekanandahr
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