Zach Lipton

So my way of like punching, kicking the can down the road was to go to school in New York.

So I went to Columbia and I got more of a secular education while getting to be on the music scene.

And so I was kind of like floating in these worlds.

I wasn't a computer scientist and I hadn't really programmed much by then.

But I sometime, I think sophomore year, was dating an engineering student.

And

I ended up just reading all of her textbooks on the side for fun.

As one does.

Yeah, I got a little bit of a taste.

Something felt...

write about, there was something very powerful about a way of thinking of a structured way of thinking about problems that came from trying to sort of map them onto a computational model such that you could manipulate it algorithmically or build software around it.

So that was like my little taste.

And I was like, you know, being like, I think that combination, like machine learning really sits at that intersection of, you know, math, especially on the side of like probabilistic reasoning and statistics and computer science engineering.

And so I had, like, those two ingredients, and it got a little bit of a taste then, but music was still my first love.

And I spent my early 20s primarily playing the saxophone.

And it was actually, it was only, my life got kind of sidelined for a bit by a health situation.

And for me, that experience of going through life

So it's sort of seeing, you know, health care is so weird.

I think people want to think it's like health care is great or health care is terrible, but it's really a mix.

There's things we understand really well.