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[...] The study, of 4.6 million patients from 1985 to 2015, was conducted using linked electronic health records from the UK's Clinical Practice Research Datalink. A wide range of factors was taken into account, including age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, family history, lifestyle factors, comorbidities, medication and marital status, as well as the time since first diagnosis, last use of the health system and latest laboratory tests.
Using more variables combined with information about their timing, machine learning models were found to provide a more robust prediction of the risk of emergency hospital admission than any models used previously.
'Our findings show that with large datasets which contain rich information about individuals, machine learning models outperform one of the best conventional statistical models,' Rahimian said. 'We think this is because machine learning models automatically capture and 'learn' from interactions between the data that we were not previously aware of.'
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:04AM (4 children)
I don't trust any modern government with access to this information. I am to the point that I hope to be out of the country when it happens, but that a nuclear war DOES break out, throwing civilization back at least 100-200 years, so that the dystopia we are spiraling towards gets put off a few more decades or centuries and gives us time for a do over of the past 3 generations that might actually learn from the past's mistakes and lead us into a brighter future where big brother, corporations, and individuals cannot peer into our lives or manipulate us to the levels they currently are nor with the abilities they will soon have.
All these religious nuts think the rapture or jesus is going to take them away and leave only us sinners to the purgatory of this planet, before being condemned to hell when we pass, but what they don't realize is all of us are the people the rapture left behind, and the only way to break the prophecy is to band together and not stand for the hell we are slowly allowing this world to become.
I fear for our children and the future if things are allowed to progress any further with the complacency of the current generations. Panopticon cannot be allowed to last.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:13AM
Well, thats the optimistic side to training all these people to do crappy data analysis. The people who want to use it for evil purposes will have trouble finding good employees as well.
That said it wasnt clear to me whether this paper suffered data leakage like I mentioned, but they did fail to use a final hold out set so its pretty much 100% there was overfitting.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday November 24 2018, @07:36AM
Is that all the high altitude smoke would solve global warming.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 24 2018, @08:32AM
dieascend to heaven - and order the first strike. Not today, since religious beliefs of Trump are more practical than idealistic. Trump won't pray instead of signing a deal - and he has plenty of children who will inherit his fistful of hard-earned dollars; he is not the type to kill us all. But who will come after him?(Score: 2) by DrkShadow on Saturday November 24 2018, @04:49PM
Someone hasn't yet watched the movie Equilibrium.
Watch it. It's worth it. Also highly relevant to your comment.