- The risk to benefits ratio of introducing a language model to interpret so clear signals is nowhere near justified.
Monitoring and analytics is important, but it is a solved problem. A language model will only be able to hallucinate about the relationship between meals and glycemic response. At best it does no harm, at worst it can directly misinform.
by darkhorse13
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- This is quite possibly a horrible idea. Personal anecdote: ChatGPT once read a blood work report value as 40, when the actual report said 4.
by surgicalcoder
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- I'm a T1D who has an insulin pump looping with AndroidAPS and NightScout, what does this give you that Nightscout and Autotune doesn't give you?
And how do you deal with AI hallucinations?
by vsaravind007
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- Looks interesting, being a Whoop user for the last few years, I have seen for myself that their AI Coach/AI based suggestions are a hit or miss 3 out of 10 times, slightly concerned about how accurate this will. Not a diabetic patient, but I do monitor my levels with a CGM from time to time, will definitely check it out!
by tornadofart
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- I'm a T1D and tbh it's not that hard to manage, I just wouldn't need that. But for kids or the elderly, I see a use case.
The hardest to learn was that an unhealthy lifestyle resulted in a diabetes that was harder to manage. Too much carbs, not enough exercise, etc. After adjusting my lifestyle, it became quite easy.
The most pain, in my experience, comes from the discrepancy between the CGM - measured value and the prick-test value, even when accounting for time lag. I've used several CGMs and they've all been wildly off sometimes. I have a few T1D acquaintances who relied on their CGM alone and have significantly improved their HbA1c after accounting for that.
Maybe that information is useful to you.
by AnthonBerg
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- Went through pregnancy with the mother having recently-diagnosed T1 diabetes – just barely not killed by grave neglect on behalf of healthcare due to how badly they missed the diagnosis to begin with.
On your work:
this is legit
it is appreciated
Hats off, I salute this, thank you
by foo-bar-baz529
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- What’s the limit on badges in a README
- "This will all end in tears, I just know it"
Marvin
by MassiveOwl
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- I've done this with the Libre 2 sensor. I added Gemini to it. It gets like 2 weeks of readings at once, and the user can "chat to their data". I added a meals tool as well, where the user can photo their meal, and the ai estimates the impact on the readings.
It's so helpful to offload some the thinking about the condition to ai, all these people moaning about 'muh safety' don't get it. T1D suffers have to think about it all day all the time. A person doesn't have their own blood glucose data in their head.
- This is THE ONE domain where you would want to use classical machine learning and not unreliable LLMs. Unless you want to kill yourself, that is.
- The alerts system and sharing with caregivers is a solved problem already (e.g. Dexcom's Follow, Abbot's LibreLinkUp).
Do you find the analytics actually helps? I.e. a lot of this will depend on what you ate and whether or not you logged it?
- I'm just happy to see a GPL project.
- Life imitates comedy...
- FDA approved?
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