immad
@immad
CEO @Mercury. Investor: @Etched, @Deel, @AppliedInt, @Stoke_Space, @DecagonAI, @Substack, 300+. Cohost of @FoundersInArms
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I've attempted to map everything in oncology in a public website and open source repo for all.
The site is trying to get all cancers, products, technologies, bottlenecks, people, startup opportunities with 1000+ ideas for upgrading the field.
If you have a loved one with cancer and you are technical or can engineer, go take a look, file improvement requests or bugs or help with the open repo and make this the best open and free info resource for individuals, researchers and educational use.
This should save people time, aid AI oncology projects and generate positive action. If you are not technical just complain in this thread about broken or annoying or things you want and I'll fix them live.
Some of the interesting pages:
Treatments:
A gallery of the molecules being used
And targets:
The technologies in oncology:
1100 ideas for helping oncology:
Bottlenecks on oncology:
Open questions (LETS GO RESEARCH PEOPLE)
Startup requests (LETS GO STARTUP PEOPLE)
Mechanics of cancer:
Battlefronts:
Isotope supply:
Key papers:
Pipeline funnels:
Cancer by type:
Institutional rankings:
The startups:
Heros and heroines :
Key medical people:
Here is the project roadmap:
Models and data sets:
There are other views as well, take a browse.
Try making a PR if you have an upgrade to this on the repo here:
If you are biologically/medically minded and something is wrong, file a bug as well or say on the thread and we will get it fixed live.
If this is a useful project star the repo and help get it calibrated.
I've tried to add some other languages but I cannot speak them so tell me if that doesnt work well.
I believe we will crack oncology and having total information dominance is key to the problem.
Let the feedback flow!
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Wearable AR has had a decade of attempts and still hasn't found the product.
The pattern is familiar: a technology looks inevitable long before it's actually usable. Worth remembering the next time something seems like it should obviously work.
More from our conversation with @stephenbalaban of Lambda on Founders in Arms. Link in bio.
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New music: Eve
We setup a white glove process for migrating from QB/Xero. Just put the following in Books Command:
"I need help switching from QBO/Xero to Books"
And you can book a time.
We will incorporate this in the onboarding process.
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One of the coolest things about @Mercury Books is this insane particle animation for onboarding.
Made the wait for loading in Mercury data + categorization way more fun.
Incredible design by @verlichen.
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Update: apologies everyone, transaction syncing and automatic categorization are running slower than usual, given the launch traffic.
We're working on speeding this up now - more updates shortly.
1/ Today, we're launching @Mercury Books.
AI-powered accounting software, for your bookkeeper or you, that categorizes and reconciles your transactions the moment they happen.
1/ Today, we're launching @Mercury Books.
AI-powered accounting software, for your bookkeeper or you, that categorizes and reconciles your transactions the moment they happen.
Mercury is launching something huge tomorrow.
I wanted to start work on this 2.5 years ago. But it took a while to start then a long time to build it to the level and depth to launch it.
Any guesses on what it is?
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Guess I am a goner! I think I have successfully forgotten how to write on paper.
I am starting to avoid using FSD since I heard that driving stimulates the brain, which makes sense.
Writing by hand activates brain connectivity patterns that typing on a keyboard does not. A 2023 study in Frontiers in Psychology put electrodes on the heads of university students and found that handwriting triggered widespread neural connectivity across the brain, while typing produced almost none.
The study was led by Audrey van der Meer at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She measured high-density brain waves in 36 students while they wrote words by hand with a digital pen and while they typed the same words on a keyboard. During handwriting, the brain showed increased connectivity between regions involved in movement, vision, and memory. During typing, the connectivity was significantly weaker.
The difference comes from the motor demands of each task. Forming a letter by hand requires the brain to plan a unique shape, guide the hand through it, and receive visual feedback as the letter appears. Each letter is slightly different every time, and the brain has to adapt. Pressing a key on a keyboard is a uniform action that requires no shaping, no feedback loop, and no variation. The brain can do it on autopilot, and it does.
The connectivity patterns observed during handwriting resembled the patterns seen during learning and memory formation, which is why students who take notes by hand remember more than students who type, even when the typists record more words. The hand is forcing the brain to process the information, while the keyboard lets it pass through unprocessed.
Every school that replaced handwriting lessons with keyboard skills did it in the name of progress. The brain data says the thing we gave up was the thing that wired us to learn. The pencil was never just a pencil. It was a brain tool.
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My wife has been creating AI music videos .
Her latest creation below.
Pretty amazing how bad Siri is given how good ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are now.
Will this just continue forever?
1/ The FDIC just approved @Mercury Bank, N.A.'s application for deposit insurance.
One step closer to opening Mercury Bank!. There is still work between here and opening Mercury Bank’s virtual doors, which should happen in 2027.
I started Mercury in 2017 because I wanted to build the bank I wished had existed when I was running my previous companies. Going from a fintech with bank partners to a tech company with an actual bank has been the vision from the beginning.
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