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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • We found a mathematical function which is good enough to be called universal estimator. Even better, our current computation technology is enough to implement these ideas algorithmically and compute in real-enough time. This will allow us to “do first, figure out later” rather than “hard work first, fruits later” approach.

    It’s just not magic, so yea we have to find where it makes sense to deploy it and where it doesn’t.

    Anecdote: I wasn’t really going for accuracy (we were looking at hidden layers more than the output layer) but the small model I was working with was able to predict cell state (sick with the thing I’m looking for?) from simple RNA assay data with 80-95% accuracy even with all the weird and bizarre regularization functions we were throwing at it.

    For some things, it makes sense. For others, we need more research. For the remaining, this is an apple we need oranges.