“Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccination programs save lives. ” David Paltiel, professor at Yale School of Public Health In the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic with its deadly apocalypse of well over 1 million deaths worldwide, there is now a glimmer of hope with at least three vaccines (Pfizer
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. ” Albert Camus, French author of The Plague In our past newsletters, we had covered important topics in data science such as the imbalanced dataset and parameters vs hyperparameters. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages
“The prospect of AI with superhuman intelligence and superhuman abilities presents us with the extraordinary challenge of stating an algorithm that outputs super ethical behavior.” Nick Bostrom, professor in philosophy This month, I am invited to elucidate my perspective on a relatively convoluted t
“Be confused. It is where you begin to learn new things.” S.C. Lourie, British writer As we plan for the upcoming inaugural comprehensive review course for the nascent American Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and its certification assessment, several topics appear to be conundra for esp
“At that time, we were not yet in a position to implement a comprehensive digital twin. I had been in the IT industry for over 30 years at the time and was firmly convinced that computers would be powerful enough someday to bring my ideas to life.” Michael Grieves, American digital pioneer and proge
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” Anthony Bourdaine American cook/author and global traveler We have remained in a viral apoc
“Some executives think that artificial intelligence is a sentient being, but it is simply a better way to turn data into actionable insights.“ Ryan Detert, CEO Influential Artificial intelligence (AI), with its machine and deep learning, natural language processing, and robotic process automation to
“Humans, it turns out, are not very good at Bayesian inference, at least when verbal reasoning is involved. The problem is that we tend to neglect the cause’s prior probability. ” Pedro Domingos, in The Master Algorithm We remain in the most challenging global health crisis of our generation, with t
