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LATEST ARTICLES ( 295 )

• The Machine Learning President

  For the past four years, I have been unable to post with any regularity. I have dozens of unfinished posts sitting in my drafts folder. I would start with a... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Math Solved Zeno’s Paradox

  

  On some rare days when the sun is shining and I'm enjoying a well made kouign-amann (my favourite comes from b.patisserie in San Francisco but Patisserie... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Fear is Real

  When I was in graduate school, my friends and I would jokingly classify the utility of research in terms of the order the researcher would be killed after the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Science Dies

  Nietzsche famously wrote: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." This quote is often used as an example of Nietzsche's nihilism but it is... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Nobel Prize Has Outlived Its Usefulness

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C today. The work is clearly deserving of recognition but this is another case where... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• ICCAI Talk

  I gave a talk at the International Conference on Complex Acute Illness ( ICCAI) with the title Forecasting COVID-19. I talked about some recent work with FDA... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why It is So Hard to Forecast COVID-19

  

  I've been actively engaged in trying to model the COVID-19 pandemic since April and after 5 months I am pretty confident that models can estimate what is... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• There is No Herd Immunity

  In order for an infectious disease (e.g. COVID-19) to spread, the infectious agent (e.g. SARS-CoV-2) must jump from one person to another. The rate of this... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why We Need a National Response

  It seems quite clear now that we do not do a very good job of projecting COVID-19 progression. There are many reasons. One is that it is hard to predict how... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Battle Over Academic Freedom

  In the wake of George Floyd's death, almost all of institutional America put out official statements decrying racism and some universities initiated policies... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper in eLife

  I never thought this would ever be finished but it's out. We hedge in the paper but my bet is that MYC is a facilitator of an accelerator essential for gene... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How to Make a Fast but Bad COVID-19 Test Good

  

  Among the myriad of problems we are having with the COVID-19 pandemic, faster testing is one we could actually improve. The standard test for the presence of... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Remember the Ventilator

  

  According to our model, the global death rate due to Covid-19 is around 1 percent for all infected (including unreported). However, if it were not for modern... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Wilson-Cowan Model

  I forgot to post that my fellow Yahya and I have recently published a review paper on the history and possible future of the Wilson-Cowan Model in the Journal o... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Long and How High for Covid-19

  

  Cases of Covid-19 are trending back up globally and in the US. The world has nearly reached 10 million cases with over 2.3 million in the US. There is still a... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Formal Logic of Legal Decisions

  The US Supreme Court ruled today that the ban on sex-based discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects employees from discrimination... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Depressing Lack of American Imagination

  Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang made universal basic income a respectable topic for debate. I think this is a good thing because I'm a major... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Fatal Flaw of the American Covid-19 Response

  The United States has surpassed 2 million official Covid-19 cases and a 115 thousand deaths. After three months of lockdown, the country has had enough and is... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Why Middle School Science Should Not Exist

  

  My 8th grade daughter had her final (distance learning) science quiz this week on work, or as it is called in her class, the scientific definition of work. I... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Much Covid-19 Testing Do We Need?

  There is a simple way to estimate how much SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing we need to start diminishing the COVID-19 pandemic. Suppose we test everyone at a rate , with ... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE