2023-05-24 MAY
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
Is WebNN where hardware manufacturers are talking to W3C's mediated browser developers? How much faster is the emerging native API?
Is WebNN a practical proposition or will we mostly engage it through suprasets? (i.e. is it a "indexedDb story"?)
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
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
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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