You gotta be kidding http://tribunecontentagency.com/article/you-gotta-bekidding "Average middle-class US family has spent >$245k on each child by the time they’re 18"
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you gotta be kidding | Tribune Content Agency
September 23, 2015Volkswagen’s appalling clean diesel scandal, explained – Vox
September 23, 2015IBM Research: Preserving Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis
September 23, 2015Preserving Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2015/08/preserving-validity-in-adaptive-data_6.html Using differential #privacy for correct #stats even w/ test-set reuse
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“A common next step would be to use the least-squares linear regression to check whether a simple linear combination of the three strongly correlated foods can predict the grade. It turns out that a little combination goes a long way: we discover that a linear combination of the three selected foods can explain a significant fraction of variance in the grade (plotted below). The regression analysis also reports that the p-value of this result is 0.00009 meaning that the probability of this happening purely by chance is less than 1 in 10,000.
Recall that no relationship exists in the true data distribution, so this discovery is clearly false. This spurious effect is known to experts as Freedman’s paradox. It arises since the variables (foods) used in the regression were chosen using the data itself.
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We found that challenges of adaptivity can be addressed using techniques developed for privacy-preserving data analysis. These techniques rely on the notion of differential privacy that guarantees that the data analysis is not too sensitive to the data of any single individual. We rigorously demonstrated that ensuring differential privacy of an analysis also guarantees that the findings will be statistically valid. We then also developed additional approaches to the problem based on a new way to measure how much information an analysis reveals about a dataset.
The Thresholdout Algorithm
Using our new approach we designed an algorithm, called Thresholdout, that allows an analyst to reuse the holdout set of data for validating a large number of results, even when those results are produced by an adaptive analysis.
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Day of Data 2015 | Yale Day of Data & Yale RNA Center Retreat
September 23, 2015TAG
https://linkstream2.gerstein.info/tag/ydod2015
http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/dayofdata/2015/
http://rnacenter.yale.edu/retreat/RNA%20retreat%20schedule%20Sept%202015-final%20(2)_209184_284_25366.pdf
Tweets:
https://storify.com/markgerstein/favorite-tweets-from-the-yale-day-of-data-ydod2015
RNA Center Lecture
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Expression-Clustering-across-Distant-Organisms–20150918-i0rnacent/
New USB-C Batteries to Charge Retina MacBooks at Full Speed – Mac Rumors
September 22, 2015We still don’t really know how bicycles work
September 22, 2015The Sting of VW’s Slap Across My Well-Moisturized, Euro-Loving Face – Bloomberg Business
September 22, 2015Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time – The Washington Post
September 22, 2015Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/03/12/before-i-go-a-stanford-neurosurgeons-parting-wisdom-about-life-and-time/ Eloquent writing on the passing of time, in one’s final hours
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there are two strategies to cutting the time short, like the tortoise and the hare. The hare moves as fast as possible, hands a blur, instruments clattering, falling to the floor; the skin slips open like a curtain, the skull flap is on the tray before the bone dust settles. But the opening might need to be expanded a centimeter here or there because it’s not optimally placed. The tortoise proceeds deliberately, with no wasted movements, measuring twice, cutting once. No step of the operation needs revisiting; everything proceeds in orderly fashion. If the hare makes too many minor missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
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The funny thing about time in the OR, whether you frenetically race or steadily proceed, is that you have no sense of it passing. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, this is the opposite: The intense focus makes the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. Two hours can feel like a minute.
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But the years did, as promised, fly by. Six years passed in a flash, but then, heading into chief residency, I developed a classic constellation of symptoms — weight loss, fevers, night sweats, unremitting back pain, cough — indicating a diagnosis quickly confirmed: metastatic lung cancer. The gears of time ground down.
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General Information | ASHG 2015 Annual Meeting
September 21, 2015http://www.ashg.org/2015meeting/pages/general.shtml
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About the ASHG 2015 Meeting
The 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center (BCC) in Baltimore, Maryland, from Tuesday, October 6 through Saturday, October 10, 2015. The ASHG Annual Meeting is the largest human genetics meeting and exposition in the world.
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