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Richard Sprague
Personal blog · richardsprague.com/posthealthscience
Richard Sprague's personal blog at richardsprague.com covers health and science. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Commenters link these posts for a personal analysis of blood glucose data from a non-invasive continuous glucose monitor worn by a non-diabetic, and for a test of the GPTZero AI-text detector on suspected plagiarized text.
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Richard Sprague's personal website about personal science, healthtech, microbiome research, and technology.
What Hacker News says?
Here's a second non-diabetic who tracks their glucose with the same non-invasive device and started analyzing it. Blog post: https://richardsprague.com/notes/cgm/cgm_analysis/ Slides from presentation last week: https://www.slideshare.net/richardsprague/quantified-self-se... He also tweets about it: https://twitter.com/sprague
Comment linking /notes/cgm/cgm_analysis/
on “Tracking Blood Sugar”Submitted Leaving Evernote as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI tested this on some text that I strongly suspect was plagiarized with a GPT-like bot. It thinks both texts are human: my original and the suspected AI-generated one. Judge for yourself: https://richardsprague.com/posts/2022/2022-11-30-plagarized-...
Comment linking /posts/2022/2022-11-30-plagarized-dsci-post.html
on “Gptzero: Efficient detection of AI generated text”Submitted Personalized Nutrition Summit 2019 as a story · 1 points
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