Posts Tagged ‘HM’

Speech-to-text tool

May 5, 2022

That’s the tool on the IBM cloud:

https://speech-to-text-demo.ng.bluemix.net/

For meeting or phone recordings’ transcription, its detection and speaker identification worked with ~75-80% accuracy

What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?

November 11, 2020

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/eaam9744

What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?

June 6, 2020

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/eaam9744

AlphaGo without Human Knowledge

December 29, 2019

Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge

David Silver, Julian Schrittwieser, Karen Simonyan, Ioannis
Antonoglou, Aja Huang, Arthur Guez, Thomas Hubert, Lucas Baker, Matthew Lai, Adrian Bolton, Yutian Chen, Timothy Lillicrap, Fan Hui, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Thore Graepel & Demis Hassabis

Nature volume 550, pages 354–359(2017)
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https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/nature24270.html#affil-auth

Weapons of Math Destruction Review + Related Material

August 31, 2019

This Person Does Not Exist

February 27, 2019

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Harari’s New Book Review in The Economist

October 11, 2018

In the kingdom of cyborgs
Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari
Uneven and easy to mock, his new book contains provocative and profound ideas

Aug 30th 2018

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/08/30/big-data-is-reshaping-humanity-says-yuval-noah-harari

University Science Strategy Committee Report

June 20, 2018

Long-awaited @Yale STEM report calls for new research institutes
https://YaleDailyNews.com/blog/2018/06/14/long-awaited-stem-report-calls-for-new-research-institutes Top recommendation is a new #DataScience institute! Followed by one for #Neuroscience. Cross-cutting recommendations on grad. student support & sci. cores (https://research.Yale.edu/ussc-report)

Blog post itself has some interesting “text evolution”:
http://meetings.gersteinlab.org/2018/06.20/Text-evolution-of-USSC-news-article

Points from the new University Science Strategy Committee Report :

Under Five Ideas for Top-Priority Investment: (University-wide Institute for) Integrative Data Science and its Mathematical Foundations and Neuroscience, from Molecules to Mind

Under Five Additional Priority Ideas: Computer Science, Conquering Cancer, Precision Medicine, Regenerative Medicine

QT:{{”
Mark Gerstein — a professor of biomedical informatics— similarly emphasized the value of a new data science institute that would integrate Yale’s science campuses and discourage research “silos.” …
Another concern is establishing the specific role of the institute amid the various departments and programs at Yale that perform data science research, Gerstein said. For example, he said, Yale’s new Center for Biomedical Data Science, which Gerstein co-directs, might eventually be folded into the proposed institute.
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IvyPlus Exchange Program + Imperial, UCL and U of London

May 10, 2018

a link to details on IvyPlus exchange program:
https://gsas.yale.edu/academics/exchanges/exchange-scholar-program-ivyplus-exchange

turns out Imperial College London is the institution that left U of London. UCL is still part of U of London
indeed: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/dec/09/highereducation.administration

Journal Club Paper

June 18, 2017

Zhou, J. and Troyanskaya, O.G. (2015). Predicting effects of noncoding variants with deep learning–based sequence model. Nature Methods, 12, 931–934.

Predicting (& prioritizing) effects of noncoding variants w. [DeepSEA] #DeepLearning…model
https://www.Nature.com/nmeth/journal/v12/n10/full/nmeth.3547.html Trained w #ENCODE data