Andy Coravos

@AndreaCoravos

CEO . Biometric data + engineering. Digital rights advocate. Board. Formerly , , , and .

San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    4 Sep 2017

    Digital biomarkers? Virtual trials? Drafted a software landscape map to decode digital tech in clinical research 💊🔬

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  2. Aug 26
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  3. Aug 26

    Curious to see how a similar pattern will play out in the crypto community as we reach the limits of reductionist thinking.

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  4. Aug 26

    Both critiques lead to a more "biosocial" understanding of diseases; medicine has shifted from holism, to reductionism, and now arc'ing back to a more informed understanding of the system.

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  5. Aug 26

    Social medicine argues that we cannot fully understand the system without considering the social determinants of disease.

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  6. Aug 26

    Rather than using reductionist understanding of component parts, network medicine proposes focusing on inter-relational structures and favoring an approach of analyzing phenomena in terms of biologic networks.

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  7. Aug 26

    Only a "minority of diseases are caused by monogenic (or oligogenic) disorders. Instead, complex interactions among numerous genetic and environmental factors determine disease phenotype."

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  8. Aug 26

    Drawing on a parallel in medicine, one disappointment of the postgenomic age is how little the much-hyped Human Genome Project has taught us to date about human disease.

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  9. Aug 26

    However, the process of putting the system back together again into meaningful wholes has proven to be highly complex.

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  10. Aug 26

    Crypto Twitter embraces the appeal of reductionism: breaking down systems into atomized pieces, carefully outlining The Fundamental Principles...

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  11. Aug 26

    [Thread] This piece on the limits of reductionism in medicine can provide parallels for those in crypto who are thinking through "putting back together" complex systems.

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  12. Aug 22

    Damn Gmail. Personalized ads getting dark. What does your algorithm know that I don't?

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  13. Retweeted
    Aug 12

    Meditation is the cheat code that lets you move the camera from POV to 3rd person.

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  14. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    Oh how WONDERFULLY Horrible looks at BioHackingVillage // w/

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  15. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    Be sure to see amazing BioHackingVillage device lab w/ ‘s cousin at // photo by

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  16. Aug 8

    At airport gate, sitting next to two guys talking about CTF challenges. Guy 1 (to me): What brings you to Vegas? Me: Same event as you. Guy 2: You don’t look like someone who would go to DEF CON. Me: 🤔🙄 Also me: **puts up hoodie to end this conversation ** 💅👾👽

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  17. Aug 6

    Flight booked ✅ Presentation ✅ Prepped for first ever Medical Device Lab ✅ See you in VEGAS

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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 31

    The mathematics behind hallucinations. Or: we see tunnels and spirals and honeycombs because those correspond to normal modes in the visual cortex.

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  19. Retweeted
    Aug 3

    We are very lucky to have giving workshop on Reverse Engineering Malware 101 at the Packet Hacking Village 26

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  20. Aug 5

    Love this metric to measure 'givers' vs. 'takers' on Twitter: ratio of likes-to-tweets. A few of the most supportive people in my feed: , , , 🤗. Who's your most generous?

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  21. Retweeted
    Aug 1

    One suggestion I make in my editorial today: don’t make women employees do all the (unpaid) legwork behind diversity and inclusion efforts. We need everyone’s help. K?

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