Blog - Some thoughts we decided to share

With a diverse team, and projects spread across many domains and technologies, we'd like to think there's something here for everyone.

How do AI Clinical Notes work? - A high level review for clinicians

Chris Horwill

Founder

There has been an explosion in the availability of AI tools that help automatically create clinical notes for doctors and other health practitioners. We give a high level overview of how many of these systems are built to help doctors and other clinicians understand what they are using.

Comparing and Sorting in Elm

Matt Furness

Senior Software Engineer

In this short post we will take a peek at how values can be compared and sorted in Elm, with the goal of sorting a List of records using multiple criteria.

Classification and De-Identification of Free-Text Health Information via Machine Learning

Ben Tefay

Senior Software Engineer

At Stacktrace, we believe that Machine Learning (ML) is critical to improving healthcare delivery. One area that is ripe for improvement is automating the extraction of information from text documents, a task that has been intractable to software and expensive and laborious for humans.

Incrementally solving the Applicative instance for Compose

Ben Tefay

Senior Software Engineer

Here at Stacktrace, our team have been working our way through the incredible Haskell data61 course. Last week we started working on the applicative instance for compose, and boy, it is much harder to implement than you might expect.

Let's learn about lenses

Brad Parker

Senior Software Engineer

In order to understand a lot of the following you'll first need some familiarity with Haskell syntax and be somewhat comfortable with what a Functor is. Why learn about lenses? Because every time I've seen lenses in action it's looked like wizardry.

console.log to victory!

Keiran O'Leary

Senior Software Engineer

A colleague of mine was investigating a peculiar bug within a separate company's codebase. They needed to observe the bug in staging, and got to the point where console.log was the best/only approach.

Easy JS bundles with Parcel

Rowan Hogan

Senior Software Engineer

I recently had the need to host a script separately from the bundle of the main app I was working on. This script was to be included on any given webpage along with some configuration to embed an iframe containing a separate app within it.

Extensibility in Elixir Using Behaviours

Matt Furness

Senior Software Engineer

Often times you can get quite a lot of payoff by defining some key contracts / callbacks that lots of functions can use to achieve an overall goal in an extensible way.