January 2021 – Page 4 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Open-source bionic leg

By Andrew Fairless on January 16, 2021December 24, 2020

https://news.umich.edu/open-source-bionic-leg-first-of-its-kind-platform-aims-to-rapidly-advance-prosthetics/ Open-source bionic leg: First-of-its-kind platform aims to rapidly advance prosthetics “A new open-source, artificially intelligent prosthetic leg… is now available to the scientific community. The leg’s free-to-copy design andContinue readingWhat I Read: Open-source bionic leg

What I Read: Think Like an Epidemiologist

By Andrew Fairless on January 16, 2021December 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/science/coronavirus-bayes-statistics-math.html How to Think Like an EpidemiologistDon’t worry, a little Bayesian analysis won’t hurt you.By Siobhan RobertsAug. 4, 2020Updated 4:57 p.m. ET “Observing early research in March about how theContinue readingWhat I Read: Think Like an Epidemiologist

What I Read: Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward

By Andrew Fairless on January 15, 2021December 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/coronavirus-schools-tradeoffs.html When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly BackwardWe aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.Aaron E. CarrollAug.Continue readingWhat I Read: Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward

What I Read: End-to-End Machine Learning Platforms

By Andrew Fairless on January 15, 2021December 24, 2020

https://databaseline.tech/a-tour-of-end-to-end-ml-platforms/ A Tour of End-to-End Machine Learning PlatformsIan Hellström21 February 2020 “What turns a collection of machine learning solutions into an end-to-end machine learning platform is an architecture that embracesContinue readingWhat I Read: End-to-End Machine Learning Platforms

What I Read: ScaNN, Efficient Vector Similarity Search

By Andrew Fairless on January 14, 2021December 23, 2020

https://www.googblogs.com/announcing-scann-efficient-vector-similarity-search/ Announcing ScaNN: Efficient Vector Similarity SearchPosted by Philip Sun, Software Engineer, Google Research “Based on this intuition, we more heavily penalize quantization error that is parallel to the originalContinue readingWhat I Read: ScaNN, Efficient Vector Similarity Search

What I Read: R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity

By Andrew Fairless on January 14, 2021December 23, 2020

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/07/r-squared-predictive-capacity-statistical-adequacy.html R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity or Statistical AdequacyThe fact that R-squared shouldn’t be used for deciding if you have an adequate model is counter-intuitive and is rarelyContinue readingWhat I Read: R squared Does Not Measure Predictive Capacity

What I Read: Snorkel Tutorial to Predict Multiple Sclerosis

By Andrew Fairless on January 13, 2021December 23, 2020

https://medium.com/swlh/a-snorkel-tutorial-using-clinical-notes-to-predict-multiple-sclerosis-severity-scores-e3863801630f A Snorkel Tutorial Using Clinical Notes to Predict Multiple Sclerosis Severity ScoresNLP4HJul 13 “In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of using Snorkel to generate labels forContinue readingWhat I Read: Snorkel Tutorial to Predict Multiple Sclerosis

What I Read: Mitochondria, Anxiety and Mental Health

By Andrew Fairless on January 12, 2021December 23, 2020

https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to-anxiety-and-mental-health-20200810/ Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Healthby Elizabeth LandauAugust 10 2020 3:43 PM “Yet a growing number of scientists have joined her during the past decade orContinue readingWhat I Read: Mitochondria, Anxiety and Mental Health

What I Read: Intro to Data Engineering for Data Scientists

By Andrew Fairless on January 12, 2021December 23, 2020

https://towardsdatascience.com/intro-to-data-engineering-for-data-scientists-fa6c864a3ecc?gi=dd86c8bdeaa0 Intro to Data Engineering for Data ScientistsAn overview of data infrastructure which is frequently asked during interviewsWei WangJul 19 “…I have found that fresh data science graduates often don’tContinue readingWhat I Read: Intro to Data Engineering for Data Scientists

Month: January 2021