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Crowdfunded Social Bullying FTW! ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Proves The Power Of YOU!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease

Crowdfunded Social Bullying FTW! ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Proves The Power Of YOU!
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Fast Progress In The Research World:
So just a few short years ago, civilians and celebrities all around the country rejoiced in good-natured bullying of their friends & colleagues.

And even though the premise was: either dump the bucket of ice water over your head or donate, many people went the torture-route anyway. -You know, for “fun”?

Despite this, that challenge raised $115 million dollars to fight the disease.

And then something amazing happened with a very small percentage of that money.

-The power of You did more than just fund something…

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Video: Hammerhead VR Big Data Genome Browser Finds Needles In Haystacks, -The Size Of Mount Everest

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Highlights, Video

Video: Hammerhead VR Big Data Genome Browser Finds Needles In Haystacks, -The Size Of Mount Everest


Like it or not, many factors like cheap storage are moving us toward Information Overload on a scale even Future Shock’s author could not have imagined.

Nowhere is that becoming more true than in Machine Learning and the Algorithmic-Pattern-Matcher-Meets-Server-Farm presently called, “Big Data”.

One of the first places outside Google and Facebook to have this problem? -Health Research.

The main issue with that much data is: How do you even begin to make sense of it?…

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Making The Complex A Little Simpler: The Number Needed To Treat

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease

Making The Complex A Little Simpler: The Number Needed To Treat
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A little while back, we told you about the great conference Wired put on with MDAnderson, called WIRED DATA | Life.

And one of the standout presentations of that conference was put-on by inveterate smartass, David Newman, of the site: The Number Needed to Treat.

Well, Wired has seen fit to remind us of David & Co-Founder Graham Walker’s work in a recent Science post.

 
What the NNT tries to do is take the highest-quality studies it can find and publish a ratings-system…

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Next Up On “Profiler”: Will Eating Red Meat Kill You? -Only if you’re standing RIGHT NEXT TO Chernobyl. -You Might Be Closer Than You Think…

Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud

Next Up On “Profiler”: Will Eating Red Meat Kill You? -Only if you’re standing RIGHT NEXT TO Chernobyl. -You Might Be Closer Than You Think…
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UPDATE! The WHO Came out with a new study that clarifies much. Read first!

I have to admit I was F***ing FLOORED when Harvard released a study that basically says, “If you are within 6 Degrees of Ron Swanson’s bacon-suffused prevailing-wind-fart-contrail, you’re as good as dead.”

But the more I thought of it, the more it seemed like a case of what economists like to call “Statistical-Reacharound-Surprise”, than anything else…

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