In this episode, Jason hosts solo with discussions of AI hype, tips for deep learning in the biomedical sciences, and service as a leader. This episode also features news, open data, and a journal club discussion. The notes from the show are included below.
Humility over hype: An AI leader at Google lays out a vision to transform medical care
Preprint on the harm of class imbalance corrections for risk predictions
Interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review from March 23 titled Overcoming the C-suite’s distrust of AI
Paper on ML for spatial transcriptomics data
Opinion piece in Stat magazine on digital health
Paper in Lancet Digital Health on the false hope of explainable AI in healthcare
Blog on Scientist Sees Squirrel on why it might be time to stop teaching the scientific method in first year biology
Interesting new paper in PLOS Biology on Examining the linguistic shifts between preprints and publications
Great piece by Dr. Michael Levin in Aeon magazine from March 8th titled “Modular Cognition”
The role of machine learning in clinical research
Statistical hypothesis testing versus machine learning binary classification: distinctions and guidelines
New 500-page open-access book on Conway’s Game of Life