Bravo. I feel like there's a kind of growth that only arrives through pain, but I wish nobody had to receive it that way.
Peering through the NICU window & wondering if my child would survive was one of the most traumatizing moments of my life. Rooting for your work.
Aside from the sad life events, little information is shares about his "system", the thing HN is interested in.
Is this more than a harness built on top of a SOTA commercial LLM?
That story is heart breaking. I really feel for you and your family. I quite literally cannot imagine having to make that decision regardless of how inevitable it was, and how much pain you felt.
No matter how short his life, or how much his suffering, Owen did get to experience being held by parents who loved him.
This is such a sad story. What would it feel like to have a child? I'll probably never experience it in my lifetime. I've never been through that, but when my sibling died of cancer, I couldn't do anything for nearly a year. I imagine it's a similar feeling. I wish you all the best in everything you do from now on.
It reads like a specific genome would lead to deterministic outcomes. It does not. Life is messy.
Most Down Syndrome people have happy lives, some can even leave alone and have an independent daily live.
Life expectancy is up to 60 years.
Yet in Iceland „Democratization“ of genetic diagnosis lead to basically 0% Down Syndrome kids.
Where does this stop? What with someone of a genetic indication of aggressive cancer- life expectancy 55? Abort?
The same (detectable) genetic mutation leads to vastly different lives.
> anti-natal communitarianism of SF
oh boy
This is a heartbreaking story and you can't imagine a more motivated founder.
Godspeed.
Huh.
> It was clear that something about my approach was interesting.
But no approach. Not even a hint.
I do hope it pans out. I do understand it must be a trade secret in order for you to have a business, but I'm still a little underwhelmed.
Really gotta love people who trauma-dump with no appropriate boundaries.
I’m skeptical that general purpose LLMs are a good fit for a very specialized medical analysis task. Something trained specifically for the task would be the path I’d explore.
My first son will be born in 2 months and I must say, between stories like this and others that I learned in antenatal classes - I have never been more terrified in my life