Hey, I'm a doctor and work in a similar area. I really like the name and well done on shipping. You can tell the app is made by a patient who suffers from the condition, which is amazing.
I would be really careful in this area though, especially using ChatGPT to generate suggestions. This to me this does venture into medical device territory, based on the intended use. Check the guidelines here https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-devices-s... - UK specific, but will be similar for FDA.
Honestly, I would seek proper consultancy advice, remove any suggestions / recommendations for now, and just have it as a data-logging platform. The disclaimer unfortunately will not stand up.
Congratulations on getting this far - I really hope you continue on this path, just make sure you are on firm ground.
I don't know, I understand the advice and I guess that's probably one of the reasons Loop (https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/) is not on the App Store. If they had turned their project into another data-logging platform we wouldn't have commercial closed loop systems.
Thanks for the link. Yep - exactly, they took a leap, but importantly didn't release a full product / package on the App Store, or charge for features. This falls much more into a grey area, but is clearly DIY, and demonstrates demand/need for the commercial / regulated systems.
Especially when the problematic features are charged for, it gives the recommendations / suggestions an air of legitimacy which could be dangerous.
A lot of the research from Loop and AndroidAPS is used in commercial closed loop platforms; many of the people working for these open source utilities also work for medical companies.
So you either get lucky and your doctor can prescribe you a commercial loop, or you compile one from source.
I came here to say the same as the parent comment - it's an amazing achievement, but you may well have built a medical device which needs certification in order to be on the market in the territories you want to use it in.
I work (freelance) with a consultancy [1] that helps specifically with software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD). My email is in my profile if you want to chat about what might be the best way forward.
I think make the move gradually - find the stuff you were excited in originally, that you would love to learn more about and eventually do. Spend maybe a few hours a week diving into it - then gradually increase and move away from your current job.
Does it mention what the density of the mesh is, or is it a flat plane with no displacement?
Also, I wonder if there's a way to optimise the foam particles in some way. It does seem very wasteful to generate them across the whole plane, when most are culled. I wonder if the particle emission / creation could be linked to foam density?
I love this! Criterion Channel has a similar sort of function - a single, continuous channel (called 24/7) that plays curated movies from their collection. Did you curate the list of channels / videos?
Also, how is the noise generated? I know it's a tiny thing but it looks a bit repetitive / pseudorandom.
Wow, what a load of rubbish. I hate this kind of reductive, formulaic view of creativity. I think true creativity expands what is possible – so some kind of awareness of the current state of things is important, but rote memorisation has no real part in it.
The idea that memorisation leads to creativity is actually very misleading - especially the assumption that what you are learning is 'true'. It just means you are more aware of the restrictions and existing work in a field - often the most exciting work comes from the excitement and slight naivety of exploring something new - 'beginner's mind'. Kids are very creative, partly because their model of the world is not fully established.
Huh, muscle memory implies motor programs that are subconscious and stored in the cerebellum - this is very different to creativity. It may enable you to make something new, but that is not a prerequisite. The value of spaghetti drawings is subjective, and actually to be able to make such disinhibited drawings with similar qualities as an adult is very difficult and requires unlearning. Picasso knew this very well.
The safe and very systematic approaches the author describes are defensive, too rigid and avoid what creativity really is - a leap into the unknown.
Hmm this seems very confused, and it's arguable whether more consciousness / self awareness has any net benefit for social cohesion.
It's very useful from an evolutionary standpoint to have an accurate internal model 'me', which you can project into hypothetical scenarios and learn from them, reducing risk and the amount of trial and error (and so increasing survival). I like the Hofstadter view that consciousness arises from the 'strange loopiness' of this self-awareness of the 'I' model.
Any social benefits are secondary, rather than the driving force, and are a result of this model and differentiating 'me' from 'you'.
I once used Floyd-Steinberg dithering to make 3D voxel prints from brain MRI scans [0]. You just convert the scan to full white and black values to represent different inks, and it means you don't have to do any segmentation and can represent fine structures much more accurately.
May be interesting to try with Atkinson dithering too, although the loss of detail may be an issue.
Also, very interested in synthetic biology atm, I’m taking HTGAA - https://www.media.mit.edu/courses/htgaa/