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Monica Spisar
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Mar 15, 2019

My way

Jan Spisar 1936.08.07 – 2019.03.05 — My father loved listening to the golden boys of the Rat Pack, especially Dean Martin. King of the Road is the song I recall best from an album that was played repeatedly in my childhood home. My father liked to have fun and openly shared his happiness (and sometimes sly…

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My way
My way

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Dec 11, 2018

“Leave me in peace, Wizard.”

James Mickens on the value of skepticism — Notes & questions on James Mickens’ talk at USENIX Security ‘18 If you haven’t seen James’ talk and have an hour to view his actual keynote, please do yourself a favor and just go see his talk. It’s entertaining, educational, and thought provoking. Absolutely not to be missed — the…

Machine Learning

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“Leave me in peace, Wizard.”
“Leave me in peace, Wizard.”
Machine Learning

6 min read


Dec 4, 2018

Notes & Questions: Andrew Trask on AI Security

2018.01 podcast (Epicenter) — My notes on Epicenter podcast: Andrew Trask: OpenMined — A Decentralised Artificial Intelligence Platform Facilitated private machine learning: train ML models on users’ data without exposing that data or uploading/aggregating that data. How? A user downloads a model and trains it on their data. The training process yields an update…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Jun 11, 2018

Humanity in an AI-enabled world

In studying AI, ML, and the general advance of technology — and observing the response to the hype that surrounds all that — I’m compelled to ask whether we’re fully considering our power in determining the nature of the influence of technology. …

AI

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AI

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May 25, 2018

Picture perfect: AI + medical imaging

Radiology’s inevitable evolution — — Caveat emptor: Written in November 2017. Progress in AI is astonishingly rapid: this will soon be out of date. — Artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging is a controversial topic — up for debate are questions regarding its implementation (from both technical and regulatory standpoints), ultimate potential (presuming it…

Machine Learning

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Picture perfect: AI + medical imaging
Picture perfect: AI + medical imaging
Machine Learning

16 min read


Mar 6, 2018

AI’s black box myth

AI doesn’t just ‘happen’. Data is fed in and converted to a result. That result is deterministically produced; an algorithm transforms the input to an output. There is no magic. So, why the confusion? Even Geoffrey Hinton’s called AI a black box. I’m not an expert — yet — but…

Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence

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Feb 1, 2018

Seeing within

Magical imaging — Much of the complexity of the human body is shrouded in mystery. But we know a lot more than we used to about its structure and function. Structure (anatomy), in particular, has been mapped out in meticulous detail. In the distant past, building up static anatomical maps relied on information…

Science

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Seeing within
Seeing within
Science

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