Writing on health, technology, and business
It s been an age since I last updated this blog. The changing nature of my work and the increased opportunities for adventures with my family have taken the time I used to spend on writing articles and posts. With our kids heading off to college in the Fall, I would like to return to communicating Continue reading Divestment
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. The article emphasizes the patient-physician collaboration model we ve been working on and that I teased at MedicineX last week.…
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 Arts and Sciences, MIT Committee Henry Lieberman, Principle Research Scientist, MIT Peter Szolovits, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT Abstract Nearly one quarter of US adults read Continue…
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 I can do in the face of a pervasive national moral cowardice. As a citizen of a republic, I could choose to move to Florida Continue reading What can a concerned citizen do in the face of injustice?
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 Healthcare. A brief summary and audiocast of the show is available.
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, and a rich generic middleware inspector that runs under nREPL. Key features include: C-c C-i inspects the var at point, or any value returned by eval of an arbitrary expression Continue reading…
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 platform next week; participants will receive a free Jawbone UP!
[NOTE: The release of cider deprecates much of the content here. I will post an update on Clojure Debugging 14 early in the near year] 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 Continue reading Clojure Debugging 13: Emacs, nREPL, and Ritz
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 rapid evolution of consumer and technology driven requirements, the difficulty of writing accurate specifications given all the unknowns, and the sheer complexity of the software ecosystem itself makes…
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 evidence." That's a wonderful and comforting sent...