Shannon McWeeney

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Focused on solving research bottlenecks | Chief Data Officer at OHSU Knight Cancer Institute | Professor & Vice Chair, OHSU | MPI Tools, AI-READI, Bridge2AI | les opinions exprimées sont les miennes | She/her
Webhttp://www.biodevlab.org/
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Twitterhttps://twitter.com/WonderMixTape
DFCI #datascience seminar: Model-robust and Efficient Covariate Adjustment for Cluster-randomized Experiments | Speaker: Fan Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Yale SPH | 5/9 1:00pm ET | More info and Zoom link: https://ds.dfci.harvard.edu/events/
Dana Farber Data Science | Events

Dana Farber Data Science hosts scientific seminars, training sessions and events throughout the year. See what's happening next.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
StarCoder: code #LLM Training data incorporates over 80 programming languages. Can complete the implementation of a function / infer following characters in line of code. (Via 🤗's transformers library) 👩‍💻: https://github.com/bigcode-project/starcoder
đź“„: https://bit.ly/3nC76ja #AI
GitHub - bigcode-project/starcoder: Home of StarCoder: fine-tuning & inference!

Home of StarCoder: fine-tuning & inference! Contribute to bigcode-project/starcoder development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Viability of non-invasive language brain–computer interface via semantic decoders via NatureNeuro -note subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder
https://bit.ly/3nmCWjI (No paywall for this link) #ai
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings | Nature Neuroscience

A brain–computer interface that decodes continuous language from non-invasive recordings would have many scientific and practical applications. Currently, however, non-invasive language decoders can only identify stimuli from among a small set of words or phrases. Here we introduce a non-invasive decoder that reconstructs continuous language from cortical semantic representations recorded using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Given novel brain recordings, this decoder generates intelligible word sequences that recover the meaning of perceived speech, imagined speech and even silent videos, demonstrating that a single decoder can be applied to a range of tasks. We tested the decoder across cortex and found that continuous language can be separately decoded from multiple regions. As brain–computer interfaces should respect mental privacy, we tested whether successful decoding requires subject cooperation and found that subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder. Our findings demonstrate the viability of non-invasive language brain–computer interfaces. Tang et al. show that continuous language can be decoded from functional MRI recordings to recover the meaning of perceived and imagined speech stimuli and silent videos and that this language decoding requires subject cooperation.

OpenAI's ChatGPT coding assistant for RStudio : set of functions & RStudio add-ons that aim to help the R developer in tedious coding tasks. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/chatgpt/index.html Or github.com/jcrodriguez1989/chatgpt #rstats #AI
Interesting initiative by US Copyright Office to examine copyright law & policy issues raised by #AI, including the scope of copyright in works generated using AI tools & the use of copyrighted materials in AI training - two more upcoming sessions May 17 and 31st. https://copyright.gov/ai/
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence | U.S. Copyright Office

Copyright law

ONC HealthIT #Algorithm #Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Proposed Rule - Available for public comment until June 20, 2023 https://www.healthit.gov/topic/laws-regulation-and-policy/health-data-technology-and-interoperability-certification-program
Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Proposed Rule | HealthIT.gov

ONC's HTI-1 proposed rule seeks to implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and make updates to the ONC Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) with new and updated standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria.

DATA Scholars: Tackling Biomedical Research Challenges with Data Science Expertise | Data Science at NIH

Indirect prompt injection threats was not on my 2023 Bingo card. This is real folks - an attacker can plant an injection in a website a user is visiting, which turns Bing Chat into a scammer to collect personal information Ref: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12173.pdf
https://greshake.github.io #security #LLM

Learn more about JSON, "the lingua franca of the internet, and R packages for working with JSON responses and building JSON requests. These skills will help you interact with APIs and other web services."
Online presentation tonight, Feb. 23, 6:30 pm PST/9:30 pm EST by @tladeras at the Portland (OR) R User Group. More info: https://www.meetup.com/portland-r-user-group/events/290919051/

#rstats #json @rstats

Aggregate 56: JSON, the language of APIs, Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Come join us for our 56th aggRegate meetup on Zoom! We welcome current or aspiring R users who have any level of experience with the R programming language. Our goal is to

Meetup
Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium Machine Learning in Medical Imaging on April 7th Register at: http://bit.ly/3YIq4lm
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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