Scientific Discovery
Predicting Car Price: EDA, Regression, Hypothesis Testing
I am predicting the selling price of the car based on various features of the cars, including the present price of the cars. I will be using Multiple Linear Regression for building The model. Let's dive under to understand the variables and use the correlation matrix to make the process easy. Now let's check if we have Outliers in our data. So Rather then removing the outliers values we would like to take log of them.
Machine Learning for Febrile Infants โ A New Paradigm?
Perhaps many people are like me in that hearing the word "machine learning" for the first time brings forth images of Skynet from The Terminator movies or Haley Joel Osment's character from the Steven Spielberg's film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. However, machine learning has now become a regular part of our vernacular when it comes to predictive modeling in many conditions. Ramgopal et al use machine learning methods to derive and validate a new prediction model for risk stratification of febrile infants 60 days of age. Using various machine learning approaches, the authors developed a prediction model with high sensitivity and specificity compared with recent prediction models for febrile infants. So, are machine learning models the new paradigm for risk stratification of febrile infants? The results are intriguing, particularly the high specificity of the model, but further work must be done, as explained nicely by Chamberlain et al in an accompanying commentary (10.1542/peds.2020-012203).
Hundreds of astronomers warn Elon Musk's Starlink satellites could limit scientific discoveries
Hundreds of astronomers have warned that satellite constellations like Elon Musk's Starlink network could prove "extremely impactful" to astronomy and scientific progress. A report by the Satellite Constellations 1 (Satcon1) workshop found that that constellations of bright satellites will fundamentally change ground-based optical and infrared astronomy and could impact the appearance of the night's sky for stargazers around the world. The research brought together more than 250 astronomers, satellite operators and dark-sky advocates to better understand the astronomical impact of large satellite constellations. "We find that the worst-case constellation designs prove extremely impactful to the most severely affected science programs," stated the report, which was published on Tuesday. Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to launch more than 30,000 Starlink satellites in order to beam high-speed internet down to Earth.
Turbocharging scientific discovery: with bits, neurons, qubits โ and collaboration
Sifting effectively through this vast chemical space would allow us to rapidly find a specific molecule and create a new material with the properties we want. This could unlock endless possibilities of material design โ for life-saving drugs, better batteries, more advanced prosthetic limbs or faster and safer cars, advancing healthcare, manufacturing, defense, biotechnology, communications and nearly every other industry. This design ability would replace our centuries-old reliance on serendipity in material discovery โ something we've been through with plastics, Teflon, Velcro, Vaseline, vulcanized rubber and so many other breakthroughs. Even graphene โ the atom-thick layer of carbon and the thinnest, strongest material known โ was discovered by (informed) chance, when physicist Kostya Novoselov found discarded Scotch tape in his lab's waste basket.
Data Science - the New Paradigm of Technology
Dr. Parshotam S. Manhas We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software -Tim O'Reilly Data Science is the technology that has emerged out as one of the most popular fields of 21st Century due to the onset of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. Data science employs scientific methodologies, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and useful insights across structured and unstructured data in various forms. It is in fact an empirical concept to amalgam statistics, data analysis, machine learning and their related methods to analyze actual phenomena with data. Data is considered as a'fourth paradigm' of science after empirical, theoretical, computational science and everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology and the humongous data explosion. Companies employ data scientists to help them gain insights about the market and to better their products. Data scientists work as decision makers and are mainly responsible for analyzing and handling a large amount of data.
This Government Agency Is A Surprising Powerhouse In AI
Among the many departments and agencies within the United States federal government, the US Department of Energy (DOE) stands out as one of the most science, technology, and innovation-focused. This should come as little surprise to those who know the DOE's storied history with its breakthrough labs, world-leading research institutions, and highly educated staff. Since World War II, the DOE has been at the forefront of most of the groundbreaking and world-changing revolutions in science and technology including the development and harnessing of nuclear energy, innovations in genomics including the DOE initiative Human Genome Project, work in high-performance computing, and many other research-oriented efforts. In fact, the DOE supports more research in the physical sciences than any other US federal agency, providing more than 40% of US funding in computing, physics, chemistry, materials science, and other area through a system of national laboratories including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and dozens more institutions. Until very recently, the DOE also ran the world's top two fastest supercomputers: Summit and Sierra.
Data is the new gold. This is how it can benefit everyone โ while harming no one
COVID-19 has dealt the world a twin crisis. We face not only our greatest global health shock but also our greatest economic shock in a century. With these dual crises comes a twin watershed moment. First, whether for school, work, health or keeping in touch with family and friends, we have realized the deep value of digital technologies. Second, the appetite for change (arguably a more challenging shift to achieve) has grown significantly.
Impact Biomedical Initiates Quantum, a New Frontier in Pharmaceutical Development
Impact Biomedical, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGX-listed Singapore eDevelopment, has announced the initiation of Quantum, a research program designed as a solution to the'patent cliff', the impending pharmaceutical threat. A patent cliff looms when patents for blockbuster drugs expire without being replaced with new drugs, and pharmaceutical companies experience an abrupt decrease in revenue, reducing overall pharmaceutical innovation globally, including crucial research into new methods to prevent and treat illnesses. Impact, through their strategic partner Global Research and Discovery Group Sciences (GRDG), has created a solution called Quantum, a new frontier in pharmaceutical development. Quantum is a new class of medicinal chemistry that uses advanced methods to boost efficacy and persistence of natural compounds and existing drugs while maintaining the safety profile of the original molecules. Instead of modifying functional groups, as is typically done presently in drug discovery, this new technique alters the behavior of molecules at the sub-molecular level.
5G and AI Power New Paradigms
We talk a lot about speed and capacity when it comes to 5G. But some of its greatest potential lies in a capability we haven't seen before: Distributed intelligence. In the same way that smartphones ignited the app economy and changed how we live, the next ...generation of wireless networks will make AI applications accessible to any connected device.
The Lasso with general Gaussian designs with applications to hypothesis testing
Celentano, Michael, Montanari, Andrea, Wei, Yuting
The Lasso is a method for high-dimensional regression, which is now commonly used when the number of covariates $p$ is of the same order or larger than the number of observations $n$. Classical asymptotic normality theory is not applicable for this model due to two fundamental reasons: $(1)$ The regularized risk is non-smooth; $(2)$ The distance between the estimator $\bf \widehat{\theta}$ and the true parameters vector $\bf \theta^\star$ cannot be neglected. As a consequence, standard perturbative arguments that are the traditional basis for asymptotic normality fail. On the other hand, the Lasso estimator can be precisely characterized in the regime in which both $n$ and $p$ are large, while $n/p$ is of order one. This characterization was first obtained in the case of standard Gaussian designs, and subsequently generalized to other high-dimensional estimation procedures. Here we extend the same characterization to Gaussian correlated designs with non-singular covariance structure. This characterization is expressed in terms of a simpler ``fixed design'' model. We establish non-asymptotic bounds on the distance between distributions of various quantities in the two models, which hold uniformly over signals $\bf \theta^\star$ in a suitable sparsity class, and values of the regularization parameter. As applications, we study the distribution of the debiased Lasso, and show that a degrees-of-freedom correction is necessary for computing valid confidence intervals.