October 20, 2017 / by Andy / In healthcare , preterm birth , obstetrics

Pricing and the Orphan Drug Act: The Curious Case of 17P

Unintended consequences of well-meaning legislation can cause needlessly high drug prices. The debate surrounding who pays for healthcare is one of the most contentious issues in the United States, especially given the steadily rising costs. What is sorely lacking however, is a conversation on why healthcare in the US is so expensive. By most estimates, we spend much more on healthcare than any other nation.

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June 04, 2017 / by / In deeplearning

You can probably use deep learning even if your data isn't that big

Over at Simply Stats Jeff Leek posted an article entitled *"Don't use deep learning your data isn't that big"* that I'll admit, rustled my jimmies a little bit. To be clear, I don't think deep learning is a universal panacea and I mostly agree with his central thesis (more on that later), but I think there are several things going on at once, and I'd like to explore a few of those further in this post. Jeff takes a look at the performance of two approaches to classify handwritten 0s vs. 1s from the well known MNIST data set.

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February 23, 2017 / by / In deeplearning

Deep Learning 101 - Part 2: Multilayer Perceptrons

What to do when you have standard tabular data. This post covers the basics of standard feed-forward neural nets, aka multilayer perceptrons (MLPs)

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February 23, 2017 / by / In deeplearning

Deep Learning 101 - Part 1: History and Background

The first in a multipart series on getting started with deep learning. In this part we will cover the history of deep learning to figure out how we got here, plus some tips and tricks to stay current.

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