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How Long Before the Data Scientist Demand Begins To Slow? About Half of the Analytics Investments Will Be A Wasted Investment As Some Data Will Prove To Be Non-Relevant to Solving “Real World” Situations At Hand

September 01, 2014 0

Now what kind of a question is that? Of course industries such as social networks like Facebook will always have a demand but that’s not what I’m talking about here, but rather the need for a business to hire data scientists. Right now the move is hot and e…

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Apple Gave Us Yet One More Day of “Quantitated Madness”–More Proof of Concept Models And Software Thrusting “Virtual Values” Into a “Real World” Where “People Don’t Work That Way”…

September 10, 2014 0

Well yesterday came and left and I have been reading over and over that the life of most mHealth apps is around two weeks, so look at the money spent on all of this again and you come back to square one with pushing models on humans they don’t want and few ha…

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New England Quality Care Alliance, Next Up Duped On Consumer Credit Card Data And Web Information..As The Scoring of America Rolls On..

Juli 29, 2014 0

This kind of funny as the chief medical officer says he’s not real sure about it:) We we know what happened with that Master Card Steroid Marketing Plan , here’s one more that was sold and duped. What they are worried about here is the fact that they need t…

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News Rigging Has Arrived! Astroturf and Manipulation of Media Messages-TED Video About “The Fake Grass Roots” Of Big Pharma and Other Campaigns That Fool and Fool Again…

April 15, 2015 0

This is a great video and if you read at the, news rigging has been a somewhat frequent content. To a degree, everyone is really becoming more skeptical of what’s in the news. Here’s a post from a couple of years ago, from Quant Cathy O’Neill, “On Being a S…

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Health Insurer Actuary Jobs Becoming More Difficult In the Era of Killer Algorithms, Can’t Function Like They Used To As Information Changes Take Place Daily And Hourly, More Insurance Companies Are Seeking Quants to Create New Math Models, The Next Level Up From Actuary Calculations

Mei 01, 2014 0

I have said this many times here but a lot of insurers are moving the next step up from actuaries to hiring Quants to create news models as most actuaries don’t write code but some are today. Quants can actually audit the actuary function as well . Sometim…

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“Sully”, The Government’s Flawed Algorithms and Simulations Were Wrong, What Doctors Can Learn From Pilots…

September 11, 2016 0

I had to include the bit about the comparison here about doctors and pilots as this correlation over the years has been used so many times and some very strange writings as doctor are not pilots, but some folks seem to think the two are more similar than they…

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Virtual World Values and The Real World, We Have A Big Problem: People Can’t Tell the Difference Anymore as Perceptual Madness Grows to Further Accelerate Inequality…

Juni 09, 2015 0

This is a republished blog post from March of 2014 and someone asked me to run it again, so here it is with a couple updates in the body and a few new links… This unwelcomed phenomena that exists today…”The Grays”…. Well somebody had to say it and sure we…

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CMS Discovers That Insurers Offering Medicare Advantage “Really Know How To Sharp Shoot A Model With Adjusting Risk For Profit”, A Common Everyday Occurrence in Financial Markets…

Agustus 07, 2014 0

I’ve written about that topic many times and it’s the fudgy gray areas modeled by Quants usually in their business models and subprime could have never happened without hiding or altering risk to reach desired profit levels. If you scroll on down to the foot…

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