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The Fog of Innovation
The Fog of War is invoked to describe the uncertainty that permeates combat operations. This term is generally attributed to a quote by Clausewitz: “The great uncertainty of all data in war is a...
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Cloud Computing: Hype or Revolution? It’s all about time and fixed costs, not...
A colleague recently emailed an argument that higher level computing providers like Heroku are doomed due to the “Fundamental Law of Another Mouth to Feed” where the margin requirements of the services...
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Debut of the Higgs
The Higgs Boson has finally made an appearance on stage at the LHC (large hadron collider)! Looks like the fireworks are in Europe this 4th of July. The last element of the standard model has been...
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Gmail Messages Skip the Inbox
Four days ago I stopped getting mail from my academic mail account on my iPhone and Mac Mail. I was in a bit of a crunch so didn’t really pay attention since I still got some mail on my business and...
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Big Data, Healthcare, and the Human Lens
I’ve been following a great discussion on Susannah Fox’s blog today. The Lohr article that sparked her post and subsequent comments have taken up the position that Evidence Based Medicine tends to...
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Guided by the Evidence?
I was reading an article about the controversial Dr. Oz this morning when a quote from a doctor struck a nerve. In reaction to Dr Oz’s embrace of alternative medicine, he stated: “I’m guided by the...
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Agile Software Metrics
The rise of dynamic software development methodologies such as Extreme Programming or Agile Programming, reflect the inherent dynamism of modern software design. The malleability of software, the...
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Clojure Debugging ’13: Emacs, nREPL, and Ritz
I’m ramping up for a new set of development projects in 2013 and 2014. My 2010 era setup with slime and swank-clojure is unlikely to remain a viable approach throughout the project. I’ve decided it...
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Personal Experiments
Last week, my collaborators from Lybba and I posted a blog entry describing my Personal Experiments project. Please enjoy this little introductory demo. Also, I’ll be announcing a new study on the...
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Advanced inspector middleware for Clojure nREPL
Last night I promoted a new nREPL middleware project, ‘nrepl-inspect’, derived from the javert library. nrepl-inspector on GitHub This repository contains: an Emacs client file that extends nrepl.el,...
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Using the crowd to help diagnose rare diseases
Earlier this week I joined NEA entrepreneur Jared Hyman of crowdmed.com and “the current” host Anna Maria Tremonti of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a discussion of crowd sourcing in...
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What can a concerned citizen do in the face of injustice?
The juxtaposition of verdicts in the Zimmerman and Alexander cases, and the unapologetic, non-reflective response of most of our political leadership leaves me wondering what I, as a concerned citizen...
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My Dissertation Defense Announcement
Title Crowdsourcing Health Discoveries: from Anecdotes to Aggregated Self-Experiments Time & Location July 26th, 1:00 PM, E14-244 Thesis Supervisor Frank Moss, Professor of the Practice of Media...
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MyIBD and Personalized Learning highlighted by Harvard Business Review
Heather Kaplan of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, with a little help from the rest of us, published a highlight of the state of our work on the Personalized Learning System via HBS’s online blog....
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