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Re:When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy by killjoywashere on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:12PM (#15513089)
Here's the structural problem I see: there are acres, literally, acres of computer science types in SF and certain other enclaves, slaving away on ads when they would rather be curing cancer. But they don't know the first thing about cancer.

Meanwhile, there are enclaves where biologists are slaving away capturing data and not even realizing it's data. "Bookkeeping data" they might call it.

There should be mixers between the biologists and the computer scientists. Especially non-academic physicians and computer scientists. Look at Kaiser-Permanente, Sutter Health, or Defense Health Agency. Huge orgs, very little research. Data falling off the shelves and they don't know what to do with it.

Re:When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy by amazingman on Friday October 20, 2017 @03:38AM (#15514136)
You’re not wrong. Especially not about the ads. What we need, unfortunately, are (at least) 2 very difficult things to achieve legislatively:

1. A legal framework for health-related products & services that meaningfully protects individual privacy, and yet also preserves the conditions for the kind of velocity and rate of change that brings technological progress to the masses reliably and quickly.

2. Massive academic funding for more “pure” research in hardware & software design, engineering, the philosophy of what’s possible, the phenomenon and ethics of what we choose to build, and so on. TLDR Pay more people more money to do important research in the public domain, which I can’t help but think would attract many of the CS types you mentioned.

Re:When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy by killjoywashere on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:09AM (#15516368)
> a legal framework that protects privacy yet brings technological progress to the masses quickly

That exists, but there's upfront educational costs that need to be handled first.

> Massive academic funding

Look at Europe: their acedemics work much more closely with industry. Get a someone who can code in a room with a physician, and I garuntee they can find a problem to work on. Show a successful prototype, and we're way below "minimum viable product" here. Show a graph with real data and money will start looking for you.

Computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and engineers need to go to biology conferences. And biologists should be going to math, ML, and software conferences.

Re:When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy by slavik81 on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:15AM (#15513516)
Mozilla Science runs the global science sprint each year to bring scientists of all kinds together with developers. I bet there's lots of projects that could still use help. https://github.com/mozilla/global-sprint/issues
Re:When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy by nonbel on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:54PM (#15513254)
Please no mixers. The AI/ML/CS people should start their own different, better approach.