Category: Notes

A cool blend of data science, informatics and medications as well as a cautionary tale of people taking multiple medications.

Russ Altman: What really happens when you mix medications?

Spencer walks us through the history of prime numbers and helps to explain why that history is important.

Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

Machine learning has taken large steps forward in recent years. There has been a shift from trying to document each facet of an object to building better algorithms that can make extrapolations based on a training set. There is some cool stuff here!

Fei-Fei Li: How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures

I never realized that male and female bodies were so different, but they are. McGregor explains some of how we know they are different and advocates that we expand our research into the differences so we can better understand how to treat people according to how their body will best respond.

Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

Kurzweil provides an overview of the mammalian brain and suggests how a future, hybrid brain might work.

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking