You are on the right path here but I think you are missing the “big players” for lack of a better term. The prediction software available now (open source) is quite good and works with different types of CGMS and pumps. You are really going to want to look at Loop.
Loop basically collects the inputs in the app automatically for insulin if you use a pump. I’m on the Omnipod DASH and Loop works with a few, Omnipod being my favorite. You can also input injections. It can also collect CGMS data automatically from that system. It works with Dexcom and others (I think Libre). You manually input carbs, and you are still gonna do that based on VIBES. After that, you get these magic prediction lines that show you where you are headed. And with the pump, it can add or lower insulin amounts (closed loop mode) to keep you in range. Pretty common to be 75-90% in range!
Off topic, but if skip your first sentence and the later mention of insulin, this reads like an acronym and jargon filled comment that could be about anything. Like you could refactor the comment to be about AI LLMs or something.
Thanks for the comment! Our core GPU cloud product is all data center-based. People can modify VMs after created, giving greater flexibility. Storage is 3x-replicated, 10 gbps networking, etc. We think of this more as an AWS replacement than a Vast.ai competitor.
We are actually working on something very similar to vast.ai (https://www.tensordock.com/product-marketplace) set to launch into a soft beta mode within the next two weeks and probably a real "Show HN" by the end of August. We'll have a few dozen GPUs scheduled to come online during the launch week at prices similar to Vast.ai. This would be with with full virtualization, which we think is better than Docker containers because we customers can run Windows VMs and do cloud gaming/rendering, thereby generating hosts more income. We might also add VM disk encryption later on, which would be more secure. Still, they are very large, so it'd be large road uphill, but we're working on something similar.
Also, if I remember correctly, with Vast (as a former user myself), an issue can arise when you have a VM in the stored state but someone is claiming the GPUs running an on-demand workload, which prevents you from being able to pull your data out. Because VMs are all booting from network storage and can be rescheduled to other compute nodes, you won't face that issue on our core cloud product here :)
If you have some command line experience you can rent out some compute and then run it on rented hardware. I am renting an A40 with 48G of vram for $0.40/hr on Vast.ai right now to make cool images. I am still using Big Dream which I think is still based on DALL-E, not DALL-E 2. I couldn't figure out how to run this latest iteration (yet!).
Studies of pale skinned Norwegiens who go in the sun during summer show they make 10,000-20,000IU equivalent a day. Results will vary depending on skin tone and the position of the sun (lower in the sky means no vitamin D as the right wavelengths of light are not hitting your skin)
It is not surprising at all that Covid-19 matches what we already know about Vitamin D and Influenza. There are consequences for radically altering the environment in which humans evolved. We were nude outdoors and now we are clothed and indoors. When we do briefly go outside, we are all conditioned to slather on sunscreen, which blocks all Vitamin D generation.
Why do people tend to get sick in the wintertime and not the summer?
Humans have being wearing clothes for about 170,000 years, indoors and outdoors, long enough for a evolutionary response. Along with fire, clothing is one of our great inventions and allows humans to live in colder climates than we could otherwise. We have, along with other creatures like lice, been evolving since we started wearing clothes.
But why do people get more sick in the winter, when they are forced into close proximity with other people, making illness easier to spread, rather than the summer, when people are outdoors more, and can do things like walk to work in the warm summer sun rather than take the bus in the cold winter rain and snow? Stated differently, we naturally do more social distancing in the summer.
Sure, there has been evolution. Like the adaptation of white skin for humans in northern latitudes. Why was it so important to evolve pale skin for humans living in high latitudes?
Social distancing in summer as a reason why people don't get sick is an interesting theory, any studies that support it?
>Why do people tend to get sick in the wintertime and not the summer?
There are lots of reasons for that. Vitamin-D is just one of those theories. There are also behavioral changes, such as people spending more time indoors and in sealed spaces. There is also the fact that certain viruses may survive better in colder, drier climates. There are also some theories that particles evaporate more quickly in the heat.
Not to mention... humans started wearing closes about 100,000 years ago.
Agree, it is a theory and one I believe. Also how/why white skin evolved is another data point to consider. Lighter skin means more Vitamin D in the summer months which is vital for humans in northern latitudes.
Clothes sure, but still were outside in the sunlight during most of the day without sunblock. Take a look at hunter gather tribes still alive today. Not a whole lot of clothes! But sure, some.
This study used a tiny amount of Vitamin D (2,00IU/day) which is absolutely not enough Vitamin D to have any affect on someone who is deficient. Going outside in a swimsuit produces 10,000+IU equivalent. We evolved nude, outdoors.
It's not a tiny amount, probably about 40% of what most adults should be getting optimally, and significantly better than having almost no intake, which is the case for a lot of people who rarely go outside and don't eat any fatty fish.
You guys are missing the major cost savings while pouring over the numbers. It all comes from empty private jets as loarabia pointed out.
Private jets fly empty all the time. This would be additional revenue for the owner/operators of the private jets. Notice that most of the flights are one way. That is because the jet is flying empty to pick up the real passengers, who pay, essentially, for the jet to come get them and take them where they are going.
The real problem is what happens when wealthy people who fly private realize that poor schmucks are flying on their dime.
You are on the right path here but I think you are missing the “big players” for lack of a better term. The prediction software available now (open source) is quite good and works with different types of CGMS and pumps. You are really going to want to look at Loop.
Loop basically collects the inputs in the app automatically for insulin if you use a pump. I’m on the Omnipod DASH and Loop works with a few, Omnipod being my favorite. You can also input injections. It can also collect CGMS data automatically from that system. It works with Dexcom and others (I think Libre). You manually input carbs, and you are still gonna do that based on VIBES. After that, you get these magic prediction lines that show you where you are headed. And with the pump, it can add or lower insulin amounts (closed loop mode) to keep you in range. Pretty common to be 75-90% in range!
Check it out:
https://github.com/LoopKit/Loop https://www.loopnlearn.org/