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Marmots* and “Evidence-Based” Medicine

Posted on August 25, 2019 6:45 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

While I understand the reasoning behind evidence-based medicine (EBM), common sense tells us that no rules are going to correctly fit a situation 100 percent of...

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Neural Networks and the Black Box

Posted on July 1, 2017 10:36 am by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The excitement over deep learning and neural networks is well deserved, but the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of “deep learning” will rep...