Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work?
by specialist on Sunday June 09, 2024 @04:08PM
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I'm sorry for your loss. Shit.
> Emfamil samples...
Insult to injury. They're all just ghouls. Profitting from other people's pain.
> what list they used
Who watches the watchers? Nobody.
We had an instance of Lexis/Nexus' (formerly Seisent) demographic database to play with. Most people just can't wrap their heads around how bad things were in the mid-aughts. I was called a "sweaty paranoid kook" by our local paper for simply describing how things worked (no opinion or predictions).
Oh well. Maybe society has started to recognize what's happened.
Thanks for reading my rant. Peace.
Re:Ask HN: Machine Learning Engineers, what do you do at work?
by notjulianjaynes on Monday June 10, 2024 @12:52AM
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>There’s even more intrusive stuff around opioid surveillance.
Can you please explain more about this or point me towards a source?
On the would-be due date, a box arrived via FedEx of Enfamil samples and a chirpy “welcome baby” message. Of course there was no baby.
It turns out that using prescription data, admission data and other information that is aggregated as part of subrogation and other processes, you can partially de-anonymize/rebuild / health record and make an inference. Enfamil told me what list they used and I bought it, it contained a bunch of information including my wife’s. I also know everyone in my zip code who had diabetes in 2015.
There’s even more intrusive stuff around opioid surveillance.