Journal Club

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
Paperback – March 9, 2023, by Stephen Wolfram (Author)

Presentation: https://youtu.be/flXrLGPY3SU 

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Hackathon 

WebNN report (Aaron)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XpXpLHr-J7n6oNEUs7oQVhpkBgkY8Vfvb33sZXAxThc/edit

Three questions - from bottom to top

1. Is WebNN where hardware manufacturers are talking to W3C's mediated browser developers? How much faster is the emerging native API?

2. Is WebNN a practical proposition or will we mostly engage it through suprasets? (i.e. is it a "indexedDb story"?)

3. What abstractions/suprasets to you see emerging? (start by noting what is being used as a polyfill).

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Software 2.0 https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35 

P2P, federated regression (Praful) 

https://episphere.github.io/lab/mnistFed.html

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MISC

recall https://github.com/jonasalmeida/evalSpace 10 years ago ...

ressuscitating at https://episphere.github.io/peer ...

https://episphere.github.io/logist ... logistic regression with stochastic steepest descent

Data-driven Healthcare costs (Lorena)

Tracking increases in out-of-pocket costs for medications through private and government-funded (Medicare/Medicaid) U.S. health insurance 

PowePoint Presentation

https://data.medicaid.gov/api 

NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost)

Medicare part D Prescribers (total prescriptions and drug costs)

Medicare part D Spending by Drug

GoodRx  - a free telemedicine platform that tracks (%80 of all pharmacies) prescription drug prices provides drug coupons  

Negative consequences - reductions in medication adherence (ie. insulin rationing)

Global insulin prices production costs

 Example of drug pricing startup that works on the pharmacy side as opposed to Goodrx on the client-side

Build Better Act - caps prices for some drugs

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Monograph modeling update (Yasmmin, Adalberto)

https://epiverse.github.io/modules/survc2/ 

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