September 27, 2018
Briefly
- The Apple Watch will now diagnose atrial fibrillation. As this story at Ars Technica explains, that’s a good problem to target: it’s under-diagnosed, and the risk of stroke that it presents is treatable. But there could be a lot of people looking for cardiologist appointments.
- A blog post on medical AI safety more generally. And an example
- Fake maps as a new ‘fake news’ threat. People who have retweeted the bogus ‘BSE map vs Brexit map’, I’m looking at you.
- Harkanwal Singh, formerly of the NZ Herald, now has a website of his own
- A new data-centered journalism organisation, The Markup, via Nieman Lab
- Because “Listen to music your parents like” would be too obviously dumb, “Spotify Teams Up With Ancestry to Create DNA-Curated Playlists”
- Cloudy with a chance of bats: a twitter thread about flying things that regularly show up on weather radar
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »