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Antibodies and how they fight disease – The Washington Post
November 17, 2017NOT-OD-17-110: Request for Comments: Proposal to Update Data Management of Genomic Summary Results Under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
November 17, 2017Air Travelers Resisting the ‘Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat’ – The New York Times
November 13, 2017Heptadecagon – Wikipedia
November 13, 2017Can Ketones Rev Up Our Workouts? – The New York Times
November 12, 2017New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning | Quanta Magazine
November 12, 2017New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of #DeepLearning
https://www.QuantaMagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/ Highlights the importance of a compression phase for generalization
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“Then learning switches to the compression phase. The network starts to shed information about the input data, keeping track of only the strongest features — those correlations that are most relevant to the output label. This happens because, in each iteration of stochastic gradient descent, more or less accidental correlations in the training data tell the network to do different things, dialing the strengths of its neural connections up and down in a random walk. This
randomization is effectively the same as compressing the system’s representation of the input data. As an example”
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NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud
November 11, 2017NIH awards to test ways to store, access, share, and compute on biomedical data in the cloud
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-test-ways-store-access-share-compute-biomedical-data-cloud
Why these powerful health care gurus left the East Coast for California
November 11, 2017Why these powerful health care gurus left the East Coast for California https://www.StatNews.com/2017/11/06/california-startup-culture/ Quotes T Insel, ex-director of NIMH: “What I was doing was providing lots of additional funding to people whose major goal was to get a paper in Nature & get tenure.”
““What I was doing was providing lots of additional funding to people whose major goal was to get a paper in Nature and get tenure.” Dr. Tom Insel, Mindstrong Health co-founder”
Reading by the Numbers: When Big Data Meets Literature
November 11, 2017Reading by the Numbers: When #BigData Meets Literature
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/10/30/arts/franco-moretti-stanford-literary-lab-big-data.html Distant reading as a complement to close reading for literary texts. Perhaps a useful dichotomy for biosequences too!
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“Literary criticism typically tends to emphasize the singularity of exceptional works that have stood the test of time. But the canon, Mr. Moretti argues, is a distorted sample. Instead, he says, scholars need to consider the tens of thousands of books that have been forgotten, a task that computer algorithms and enormous digitized databases have now made possible.
“We know how to read texts,” he wrote in a much-quoted essay included in his book “Distant Reading,” which won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. “Now let’s learn how to not read them.””
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