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The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are Different | Popular Science
March 1, 2013Influential Few Predict Behavior of the Many: Scientific American
February 28, 2013QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior
The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage | Competing on Decisions
February 19, 2013Puncturing the hype around data science
http://hiredbrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-fallacy-of-the-data-scientist-shortage/
Thoughts on “A few useful things to know about machine learning”
February 14, 2013Some thoughts on a good paper giving intuition on machine learning approaches
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2347755
In particular, the paper gives good intuition about:
– overfitting (e.g. how it’s related to multiple testing & bias v variance)
– the curse of dimensionality (in high-D all neighbors look the same)
– the non-practicality of theoretical guarantees
– how different frontiers can give the same prediction
– ensembles (which reduce variance greatly without increasing bias that much)
– ensembles vs Bayesian model averaging (which essentially select the best model)
Jack Andraka, Gordon E. Moore Award Winner
February 12, 2013the Intel Science winner for cancer biomarker detection
http://youtu.be/Q9mutro7h7k
The Mythology of Moore’s Law
February 10, 2013Does a Public “Find My iPhone” Search Violate Personal Privacy?: Scientific American
February 9, 2013Humans Think Like Quantum Particles: Scientific American
February 9, 2013http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-think-like-quantum-particles Quantum theory once seemed like the last nail in the coffin of pure reason. Now it’s looking like its savior
By George Musser
How we can vote like a quantum superposition
Museum of Mathematics at Madison Square Park – NYTimes.com = momath moma mosex
February 9, 2013Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/arts/design/museum-of-mathematics-at-madison-square-park.html
News item related to the new Institute for Precision Medicine
February 3, 2013http://weill.cornell.edu/news/releases/feature/01_31_13.shtml This will be an important component for research at WCMC.
http://www.med.cornell.edu/#id=69
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