Christmas in July
It is July and I still find my self thinking about how good Sia's Christmas album was. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/everyday-is-christmas/1299289839…
HN Who is Hiring April 2018 - Health Care and Life Sciences
Hi, I'm Jacob, co-founder of Superconductive Health where we help companies with their data infrastructure including ETL services and data quality products. A year or so ago, I put together a list of all the health care companies that posted jobs on HN's Who's Hiring thread. Seperate form the looking…
Amazon as a TPA or How Amazon is Solving Interoperability
Amazon's recent entry into the healthcare world has left a lot of people speculating as to the aims, goals, and ultimate profit motives. The best take I've seen is Ben Thompson's at Stratechery - his analysis is spot on[1]. However, since he is coming at this from outside of…
Notes from USVI Gov. Mapp Press Conference 9 SEP 2017
A summary of comments from Governor Mapp, the Commissioner of the Department of Health, the Commissioner of Police, and the fire chief, and a representative from FEMA: Opened distribution centers: Fire Station @ Fort Christen and Tutu Distributing water, MREs, tarps Will be distributing more, don’t expect to go to…
A Speech Given to Antilles School Seniors About Computer Science
I was asked a few weeks ago to speak with some high school seniors interested in pursuing computer science. The talk was to center around three ideas: how I got started in Computer Science, what my college experience was like, and transitioning from college to a career…
Writing a SQL Query to Generate Box and Whisker Charts in Excel 2016
In Excel 2016, Microsoft added Box and Whisker Charts. With this new feature, Microsoft has published a support document detailing How to Create a Box and Whisker Chart. These instructions are great if we already have data formatted into such an a table, but what if we're pulling data out…
Building a Simple Multilayer Convolutional Network to Detect Cancer in MIAS Mammograms
Previously, we modified the MNIST For ML Beginners Tutorial to process Mini-MIAS imagery. The results of this were not great. Let's try this again but with a simple Multilayer Convolutional Network (CNN) in TensorFlow. Once again, we will be using The mini-MIAS database of mammograms[1]. What is a Convolutional…
Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Skin Cancer As Well As Seasoned Dermatologists
Stanford in the news today with another deep-learning breakthrough in cancer diagnostics: Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists First, the impressive results: The final product, the subject of a paper in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature, was tested against 21 board-certified dermatologists. In its…
Importing the National Provider Database, Part II
Hello, I'm Jacob. I perform technology and strategy consulting, including data analytics and machine learning. I blog about various projects I'm working on. If this topic is interesting or relevant to your organization let's talk - hello at jacob dot vi In Importing the National Provider Database, Part I, I…
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
For Christmas this year, I gave a number of friends a copy of The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. I included the following letter with each copy of the book: Earlier this year, I read a book call…