I’m not going to dispute what Francis Collins said but Ebola research is only a small portion of what the NIH funds every year and I’m sure they work to try to prioritize their funding for sure. Yes we still have a lot of “garbage” that gets funded and I see…
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This is a great watch and lot of information from Cathy O’Neil, author of “Weapons of Math Destruction” and computer scientist Jaron Lanier. Nobody is minding the shop as you can’t ask a machine for an appeal or know how the machine computed “One Trick Algo…
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As I said before we have turned into a nation of “stat rats” with an over dependence on virtual values which stats are. Sure we need them and it tells us where we need to focus and so on but again I call it “The Grays” to where people can’t tell the differen…
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I can fully understand the efforts of the auditors and recreating what they found with data, but it all comes back once more to context and again we live too heavily in virtual worlds today where flawed data is also on the rise. Sure the auditors are going t…
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Below you can read what Tech Dirt wrote and I’m glad there’s someone else out there that debunks some of nonsense we see today in the news. I realize things are complex and I keep telling all we get fooled and that’s all of us at times, no exceptions and thi…
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This is what we all dislike about healthcare today, the constant changes as we no sooner adjust to one change and there’s 10 waiting for us. The pace of what is happening in the world of health insurance is becoming more than most can fathom at times. Healt…
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60 Minutes just did a story about identity theft and it was also covered in the story that Eric Holder was also a victim of identity theft and how someone used his social security number and date of birth to file a fake return. Maybe this was the final straw…
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You can do a 100 Bottles of Beer when it comes to math models…and that’s what runs the markets. On another area, look at how much Google is spending on lobbying, both sides. It’s kind of scary to see how they have been able to “work the bliss’ with the …
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This is yet another expansion of the Medicare Advantage Killer Algorithms as the insurer business intelligence methodologies used are designating that these are additional areas that are having an impact on over all profit strategies. This is a process that …
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Kenneth Cukier from the Economist explains in this 15 minute video how the face of journalism is changing and as readers we don’t all of it, but it’s good to be aware and understand what they are working with today. He states sure we need both, input from pe…
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This is the way the crappy algorithms crumble. What was once a great way of communicating what’s going on in the world is in algorithmic and monetary shambles. First I like to point fingers at the greedy corporations out there who won’t spend a few more buc…
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