Colouring book self-supervised learning
bayesianbiologist | Corey Chivers on P(A|B) ∝P(B|A)P(A)
by Corey Chivers
2y ago
Self-Supervised Learning: Its child’s play Recently at home with my mom and sister and I was explaining a bit about the work I’m going to be doing in AI for digital pathology. We got talking about how there is so much data, but a scarcity of good labels, what self-supervised learning is and how it can help overcome this. As I was describing how it works, my sister was like “oh, ya, like this!” and pulled out a coloring book my nieces had been working on. Hey, contrastive learning in the meat space ..read more
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The Treachery of Models
bayesianbiologist | Corey Chivers on P(A|B) ∝P(B|A)P(A)
by Corey Chivers
4y ago
In Magritte’s famous 1929 painting The Treachery of Images, a pipe is depicted with the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe“, French for “This is not a pipe”. The seemingly dissonant statement under what is a very clearly depicted pipe forces the viewer to confront the distinction between the representation and the thing itself. The treachery refers to the danger involved in confusing the representation with the object. Models – like images – are merely representations of the objects they depict. The modeler seeks to represent the relevant properties of the system being modeled in order to commun ..read more
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Germination Project Fellows come to Penn
bayesianbiologist | Corey Chivers on P(A|B) ∝P(B|A)P(A)
by Corey Chivers
5y ago
I was recently fortunate to be invited to speak with an impressive group of high-school students as a part of the Germination Project. They came to Penn to learn about innovation in health care and I spoke with them about how we’re using Data Science to improve patient outcomes ..read more
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