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• The Covid-19 Plateau

  

  For the past five weeks, the appearance rate of Covid-19 cases has plateaued at about a hundred thousand new cases per day. Just click on the Daily Cases Tab... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• A Covid-19 Manhattan Project

  Right now there are hundreds if not thousands of Covid-19 models floating out there. Some are better than others and some have much more influence than others... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• COVID-19 Paper

  First draft of our paper can be downloaded from this link. I'll post more details about it later. Global prediction of unreported SARS-CoV2 infection from... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Exponential Growth

  

  The spread of covid-19 and epidemics in general is all about exponential growth. Although, I deal with exponential growth in my work daily, I don't have an... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Covid-19 Modeling

  I have officially thrown my hat into the ring and joined the throngs of would-be Covid-19 modelers to try to estimate (I deliberately do not use predict) the... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Response to Oxford Paper on Covid-19

  Here is my response to the paper from Oxford (Lourenco et al.) arguing that novel coronavirus infection may already be widespread in the UK and Italy. The... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Relevant Covid-19 Fatality Rate

  Much has been written in the past few days about whether the case fatality rate (CFR) for Covid-19 is actually much lower than the original estimate of about 3... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Many Covid-19 Cases Are Too Many ?

  The US death rate is approximately 900 per 100,000 people. Thus, for a medium sized city of a million there are on average 25 deaths per day. Not all of these... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2020 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Failure of Supply-side Social Policy

  The US is in the midst of two social crises. The first is an opioid epidemic that is decimating parts of rural and now urban America and the second is a surge i... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2019 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• NIH Talk

  Here are the slides for the talk that Shashaank Vattikuti gave at the " From Neural Activity to Behavior: Computational Modeling of the Nervous System "... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Duality and Computation in the MCU

  I took my kindergartener to see Avengers: Endgame recently. My son was a little disappointed, complaining that the film had too much talking and not enough... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2019 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Probability of Life

  

  Estimates from the Kepler satellite suggest that there could be at least 40 billion exoplanets capable of supporting life in our galaxy alone. Given that there... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2019 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper in Cell

  2018 Dec 10. pii: S0092-8674(18)31518-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.026. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Transcriptional regulation in metazoans occurs through... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on GWAS

  Genet Epidemiol. 2018 Dec;42(8):783-795. doi: 10.1002/gepi.22161. Epub 2018 Sep 24. 1Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities,... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Low Carb War Continues

  Last month, a paper in the British Journal of Medicine on the effect of low carb diets on energy expenditure, with senior author David Ludwig, made a big... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Tragedy of Low Probability Events

  We live in an age of fear and yet life (in the US at least) is the safest it has ever been. Megan McArdle blames coddling parents and the media in a ... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Harvard and Asian Americans

  The current trial regarding Harvard's admissions policies seem to clearly indicate that they discriminate against Asian Americans. I had always assumed this to... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

  

  Chris Kim and I recently published a paper in eLife: Learning recurrent dynamics in spiking networks. Spiking activity of neurons engaged in learning and... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Optimizing Luck

  

  Each week on the NPR podcast How I Built This, host Guy Raz interviews a founder of a successful enterprise like James Dyson or Ben and Jerry. At the end of mos... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• AI and Authoritarianism

  Much of the discourse on the future of AI , such as this one, has focused on people being displaced by machines. While this is certainly a worthy concern,... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE