"... recall the famous quip from Jeff Hammerbacher, a former Facebook engineer, who said, 'The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.' We contend that working in biostatistics using complex neuroimaging data to solve the biggest puzzle of them all – understanding the human brain – is a worthy alternative."-from "WANTED: Neuro-quants" by Brian Caffo, Martin Lindquist, and Ciprian Crainiceanu, which appears in the the Huffington Post.
Showing posts with label big data. Show all posts
Showing posts with label big data. Show all posts
August 14, 2013
Proposed: Understanding the brain doesn't suck.
May 31, 2013
"Bucky is not like other dogs. But he is like ..." Part III. ("Visually similar images" from Google's "search by image")
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May 29, 2013
March 23, 2012
Narrative, Big Data & the Future of Communication
My reflections on the SXSW conference, Emotion and the Search for Meaning for SXSW, have been published here.
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