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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 [https://stratechery.com/2018/amazon-health/] - his analysis is spot on[…
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…
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…
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 [https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-box-and-whisker-chart-62f4219f-db4b-4754-aca8-4743f6190f0d] . These instructions are great if we already have data formatted into such an a table,…
Previously, we modified the MNIST For ML Beginners Tutorial to process Mini-MIAS imagery [http://jacob.vi/modifying-tensorflows-mnist-for-beginners-tutorial-to-search-for-cancer-in-mammograms/] . The results of this were not great. Let's try this again but with a simple Multilayer Convolutional Network (CNN) in TensorFlow [https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/mnist/pros/…
Stanford in the news today with another deep-learning breakthrough in cancer diagnostics: Deep learning algorithm diagnoses skin cancer as well as seasoned dermatologists [http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/25/artificial-intelligence-used-identify-skin-cancer/] First, the impressive results: > The final product, the subject of a paper in the Jan. 25 issue of…
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…
For Christmas this year, I gave a number of friends a copy of The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age [https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720] by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. I included the following letter with each copy of the book: >…