Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Less precise health

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A recent article (1) proposes that precision health should prioritize actionable information and long-term user engagement. That's a l...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Stop hiring "data scientists."

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They have been riding high. The abandoned and somewhat less sexy field of Statistics has taken the business world by storm. Bottling old w...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Breathe, breathe in the air

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As the first biological entities emerged out of the water and into the land, the battle was just beginning. The toxic air was oxygenated o...
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...