QT:” looked at the entire human metabolic network and found that concentrations of about 10 percent of the body’s 2,763 metabolites could be used to determine the levels of all the rest.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=influential-few-predict-behavior
Puncturing the hype around data science
http://hiredbrains.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-fallacy-of-the-data-scientist-shortage/
Some thoughts on a good paper giving intuition on machine learning approaches
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~pedrod/papers/cacm12.pdf
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2347755
In particular, the paper gives good intuition about:
– overfitting (e.g. how it’s related to multiple testing & bias v variance)
– the curse of dimensionality (in high-D all neighbors look the same)
– the non-practicality of theoretical guarantees
– how different frontiers can give the same prediction
– ensembles (which reduce variance greatly without increasing bias that much)
– ensembles vs Bayesian model averaging (which essentially select the best model)
the Intel Science winner for cancer biomarker detection
http://youtu.be/Q9mutro7h7k
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=humans-think-like-quantum-particles Quantum theory once seemed like the last nail in the coffin of pure reason. Now it’s looking like its savior
By George Musser
How we can vote like a quantum superposition
Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/arts/design/museum-of-mathematics-at-madison-square-park.html
http://weill.cornell.edu/news/releases/feature/01_31_13.shtml This will be an important component for research at WCMC.
http://www.med.cornell.edu/#id=69
1 deg. higher than previous yr while 4 deg separates min from max. Extreme weather incl. a “Drencho”
Not much with keeping warm in ’12
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/09/science/earth/2012-was-hottest-year-ever-in-us.html