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When your engineering work gets repurposed for higher-stakes applications

This sensor fusion algorithm I wrote two years ago is now being used in medical devices and I am terrified because I remember cutting corners that seemed okay for the industrial application it was originally designed for.

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Shortcuts you took years ago are now inside medical devices, and it terrifies you.

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