In this blog, I would like to argue that current standards of tele-conferences can and should be further improved and tele-conferences may help to reduce job-related travels and carbon emissions. I used the title “AV in an AI world” because I am still surprised to see how low the quality of tele-conferences (AV=audiovisuals) in many…
Doug Altman, a professor of statistics at the University of Oxford, died June 3, 2018. Some of his achievements from the Orbituary in The Scientist [1] and Cochrane Library [2]: 1986: Publication of Bland-Altman plot, an incredibly popular technique to visually compare two different methods of taking clinical measurements. According to Nature in 2014, their…
I recently read the book “Weapons of Mass Destruction” (2016) by Cathy O’Neil [1, 2], who describes how the mass application of predictive algorithms transforms society and the involved risks using examples from the USA. For example, prediction algorithms for crime may use ethnicity (eg black vs white) leading to more police patrols in areas…