Monday, January 22, 2018

Personalized medicine

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It appears that the completely archaic notion of mass-produced drugs for the average patient is about to change (1). The manufacturers pai...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

The dawn of non-invasive diagnostics

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Recent news that a single blood test could provide the diagnosis of eight common cancers with 99% specificity (1) is a constant reminder t...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Broad learning

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Deep learning has been in vogue. Combining ideas from the 60s and an insane amount of computing power, the search giant and others have be...
Monday, January 8, 2018

The end of statistics

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For nearly hundred years, every field, life-sciences, manufacturing, high-energy physics, economics, healthcare, and others relied on basi...
Thursday, December 28, 2017

Blueprint for societal evolution

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A new study (1) demonstrates that there are significant common factors that influenced the evolution of past societies. One clear and obvi...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Wisdom against intelligence

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A recent article in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (1) proposes that " class is inversely related to a propensity for using w...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

The tsunami in healthcare

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As the thousand people in Washington, whose healthcare is covered for life, figure out how many millions they would like to deny the same...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Knowledge dark ages

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It appears that complexity is increasing in every field. Past experience tells us that knowledge only arrived by simplification, the exact...