Monthly Archives: November 2011
Cool optimization and disease modeling from INFORMS
I didn’t go to INFORMS, because I get lost at mega-conferences. Give me 200 people attending one track of talks, preferably with lots of coffee breaks. But I did talk to people who went. One exciting thing that I heard … Continue reading
Filed under disease modeling
I-TECH’s Everydayleadership.org
There are many sides to global health, and the quantitative, metrics-y part that I write about here is but one. My colleagues from the UW Global Health Department at I-TECH work on another, which intrigues me, and might be called … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Put it in a figure+
An old adage when writing research papers is “put it in a figure”. If there is one thing that I want the reader to know when they put my paper down, then I try to put it in a beautiful … Continue reading
Filed under disease modeling, videos
Causal Modeling in Python: Bayesian Networks in PyMC
While I was off being really busy, an interesting project to learn PyMC was discussed on their mailing list, beginning thusly: I am trying to learn PyMC and I decided to start from the very simple discrete Sprinkler model. I … Continue reading
Filed under MCMC
OWS in Theory
Luca Trevisan sparks a CS Theory discussion about the police repression of students supporting Occupy Wall St on his blog “in theory”.
Filed under Mysteries
How I spent my fall vacation
As mentioned, HA took a brief vacation while I worked hard on my disease modeling system for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study. First, I thought I was writing a book about the methods, but as I wrote I … Continue reading
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Resusicitating Healthy Algorithms
Wow, 2.5 months can just fly by! I’m crawling out from under a crushing workload, and ready to rejoin the world of applied theoretical computer science and python hacking. Did I miss anything?
Filed under Uncategorized
