See Reason: Looking at the World through Science and Reason

Medical applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) have drawn a lot of attention from investors, the media, and the public at large. Whether helping us  better interpret radiological images ,  identify potentially harmful drug interactions ,  discover new therapeutic targets , or simply  organize medical information , AI and DL are beginning to impact real care given to real patients. Because these systems learn from examining data, rather than being programmed to follow specific logic, it is often challenging to understand why they make the decisions they make. Furthermore, recent results suggest the role of AI in medicine is transitioning to a new phase, in which AI enables us to do more than merely solve known problems in an automated way. AI is enabling us to solve  “xenocomplex” problems : problems so difficult, humans have a hard time identifying a solution or even fully articulating the problem itself. To fully translate these capabilities into better o

Capitalism: you hate it, you love it, you love to hate it, and you hate to love it. As the dominant, or at least most successful, economic system of  the last 3-5 centuries  (depending how you want to  define capitalism ), it has been an integral part of the socioeconomic fabric for innumerable successes and tragedies. For almost any take you might conceive someone having on capitalism, if you look around enough, you’ll likely find someone has already written about it (maybe even this one!). A common trope, of course, is the “greedy capitalist,” the evil banker or industrialist or business owner ruthlessly exploiting those beneath them for their own profit. Gordon Gekko  infamously lauded the goodness of greed , kicking off a generation of bloodthirsty blue-shirted hostile takeover artists who saw economics in brutal Darwinian terms.   Blue shirt + white collar + power tie + suspenders + gold Cartier = hide ya assets, hide ya balance sheet, hide ya sales projections, cause they takin o