Journal Club

Federated Learning prototype at Deloitte

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Notes

• https://www.melloddy.eu FL in pharma

• https://medmnist.com <-- the data, including PneumoniaMNIST
  https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/paultimothymooney/chest-xray-pneumonia <-- direct link to PneumoniaMNIST

• https://developer.nvidia.com/flare <-- the flare SDK, i.e. python scripts that run in each containarized deployment

Hackathon

Risk Apps (Ben Harvey)

Risk Model WebApp at John Hopkins (Ben Harvey from Nilanjan's group)

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Notes

• https://covid19risktools.com

• an example of the API implicitly (without CORS) exposed by the covid risk application: https://covid19risktools.com:8443/save?age=56&zipcode=20850&race=0.9725072&hispanic=0&sex=0.431782416425538&feet=6&inches=0&weight=170&highBP=0&neversmoked=no&currentExSmoker=0&respiratoryDisease=0&hasAsthma=0&ocs=0&chronicHeartDisease=0&hasdiabetes=0&diabetes=0&hematologicalDiagnosis=0&hashematologicalDiagnosis=0&stroke=0&kidney=0&arthritis=0&hypertensive=0&bothHema=0&bothNonHema=0

• the icare app: http://52.39.91.106:8080

• http://52.39.91.106:8080/icare/compute-absolute-risk/calculate
  Request Method: POST
  Payload example: {"age":"56","gender":"1","ethnicity":"5","bmi_lbs":"170","height_feet":"6","height_inches":"0","age_at_first_menstrual_period":"6","has_period_stopped":"1","age_at_last_menstrual_period":"3","total_pregnancy_count":"2","ever_had_children":"1","total_number_of_child_birth":"1","age_at_first_child":"2","hormone_prescription":"-1","is_hormonal_med_used":"-1","alcohol_beverage":"2","alcoholic_types_drank_wine":"1","alcohol_beverage_frequency_wine":"-1","alcohol_beverage_quantity_wine":"-1","alcoholic_types_drank_cider":"1","alcohol_beverage_frequency_cider":"-1","alcohol_beverage_quantity_cider":"-1","alcohol_beverage_frequency_beer":"","alcohol_beverage_quantity_beer":"","alcohol_beverage_frequency_pop":"","alcohol_beverage_quantity_pop":"","alcohol_beverage_frequency_liquor":"","alcohol_beverage_quantity_liquor":"","has_smoked":"0","has_fibrocystic_breast_disease":"-1","is_family_cancer":"-1"}

Plotting differences

Comparing distributions of observations (Lorena)

> https://observablehq.com/@lorenasandoval88/altman-gardner-plot
, and on Github: https://github.com/lorenasandoval88/Altman-Gardner-Plot

Code injection (Lorena)

tag loading, requiring and importing: the observable use case

Elsewhere

A lot of noise came out of this chatbot at Google: https://link.medium.com/761w4tQ8tsb

Arlindo proposes that the manifestation of language be approached carefully and systematically when considering "consciousness": https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205971119