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January 28, 201910 Best Summer Road Trips in New England
January 24, 2019QT:{{”
“HOUSATONIC VALLEY, Connecticut
On this New England road trip, following Route 7 along the Housatonic River from New Milford to Canaan reveals the green beauty of Western Connecticut. There’s a covered bridge and waterfalls.
Distance: 35 miles.
THE QUIET CORNER, Connecticut
Travel back in history for bucolic tranquility on quiet CT169 from Old Norwich to Woodstock, meandering past colonial homesteads and stone walls, farmers’ fields and quaint town greens.
Distance: 40 miles.”
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Why the Father of Modern Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused Cancer
January 24, 2019Why the Father of Modern #Statistics Didn’t Believe Smoking Caused
Cancer https://priceonomics.com/why-the-father-of-modern-statistics-didnt-believe/ Interesting article on how even geniuses can be wrong. With a great line: “If he were alive today, Ronald Fisher would have one hell of a Twitter account.”
Austin Bradford Hill – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Bradford_Hill
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Sir Austin Bradford Hill FRS[1] (8 July 1897 – 18 April 1991), English epidemiologistand statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the “Bradford Hill” criteria for determining a causal association.[2][3]
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British Doctors Study – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 23, 2019https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Doctors_Study
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The British Doctors’ Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and in … Context[edit]. Although there had been suspicions of a link between smokingand various diseases, the evidence for this link had been largely circumstantial. … The original study was run by Richard Doll and Austin Bradford Hill.
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Quantification of collider-stratification bias and the birthweight paradox. – PubMed – NCBI
January 13, 2019https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19689488
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Recently, causal diagrams have been used to illustrate the possibility for collider-stratification bias in models adjusting for birthweight. When two variables share a common effect, stratification on the variable representing that effect induces a statistical relation between otherwise independent factors.
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Productivity and influence in bioinformatics: A bibliometric analysis using PubMed central
December 28, 2018https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.22970
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Appendix shows the top 20 most highly cited authors based on 546,245 citations from PubMed Central. In all three periods, M. Gerstein, a professor in computational biology and bioinformatics at Yale University, is
both the most highly cited and productive author in the first author category.
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Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions
November 23, 2018Why “Many-Model Thinkers” Make Better Decisions
https://HBR.org/2018/11/why-many-model-thinkers-make-better-decisions Intuitive description of #MachineLearning concepts. Focuses on practical business contexts (eg hiring) & explains how #ensemble models & boosting can make better choices
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“The agent based model is not necessarily better. It’s value comes from focusing attention where the standard model does not.
The second guideline borrows the concept of boosting, …Rather than look for trees that predict with high accuracy in isolation, boosting looks for trees that perform well when the forest of current trees does not.
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A boosting approach would take data from all past decisions and see where the first model failed. …The idea of boosting is to go searching for models that do best specifically when your other models fail.
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To give a second example, several firms I have visited have hired computer scientists to apply techniques from artificial intelligence to identify past hiring mistakes. This is boosting in its purest form. Rather than try to use AI to simply beat their current hiring model, they use AI to build a second model that complements their current hiring model. They look for where their current model fails and build new models to complement it.”
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Tea if by sea, cha if by land
November 17, 2018Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for
tea https://QZ.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land-and-sea-to-conquer-the-world Both words originated from China; differences stem from whether they were globalized via Dutch sea trade or overland route HT
@gamzeandgursoy
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“Both versions come from China. How they spread around the world offers a clear picture of how globalization worked before
“globalization” was a term anybody used. The words that sound like “cha” spread across land, along the Silk Road. The “tea”-like phrasings spread over water, by Dutch traders bringing the novel leaves back to Europe.”
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Powering the internet of things | August 7, 2017 Issue – Vol. 95 Issue 32 | Chemical & Engineering News
November 3, 2018Powering the internet of things
https://CEN.ACS.org/articles/95/i32/Powering-internet-things.html Great variety of sources & uses for #EnergyHarvesting devices — eg smart card readers for door & sensors for T gradients
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“Like Enerbee, many energy-harvesting firms remain optimistic and say the technology is improving. Most also acknowledge, as does Alta’s Vijh, that “the market for energy harvesting and the internet of things is a little slow now.” But sooner or later, he says, “it’s going to happen.””
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Powering the internet of things | August 7, 2017 Issue – Vol. 95 Issue 32 | Chemical & Engineering News
https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i32/Powering-internet-things.html
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