tedx:
Teen Develops Computer Algorithm to Diagnose Leukemia
“Brittany Wenger isn’t your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia.
The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based “artificial neural network” to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). Simply put, this means Wenger taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia by creating a diagnostic tool for doctors to use.”
Brittany is also a TEDx speaker! She spoke at TEDxCERN this May, and TEDxWomen in 2012.
See our coverage of TEDxCERN here, and — below — watch Brittany’s TEDxWomen talk about Cloud4Cancer, a computer program she designed to diagnose breast cancer more accurately and less invasively.
ugh i ate a microwave dinner and i’m reallly regretting it ok
if i ever met a genie i wouldnt wish for a million dollars id wish that whenever i bought something i’d always have the right amount of money to pay for it in my pocket
you are one of the great thinkers of our time
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look if you’re gonna do the nice legs daisy dukes thing can you cut out the intro bit?
Wow. Yeah. Definitely. That’s the only reason. To insult other people. It has absolutely nothing to do with how I personally identify and what words I like to use.
you can call yourself whatever you like, but i’ve never met a pansexual who ever described their preference for the term in a way that wasn’t biphobic so i hope you’ll forgive me if i’m a little suspicious of people who use the term “pansexual”
Of course you can be suspicious (no forgiveness required). And of course I can call myself whatever I like. I’m saddened and sorry you’ve had bad experiences, but I just found that a very sweeping and pretty hurtful statement.
i don’t particularly care tbh it was kind of meant to be
i get that you’re trying to play nice here, but i’m just really not interested in sparing your feelings, when frankly, the existence of pansexuality has just made it more difficult to identify as bisexual.
now on top of being “greedy” or “pretending” or “going through a phase” or “needing to pick a side” NOW now i also am apparently “oppressive” and “excluding trans* people”. all of this just by being who i am — a person who, by the way, is none of the above, and also completely erases the fact that i am a bisexual person who identifies as genderqueer which puts me on the trans* spectrum.
so yeah, i don’t give a crap until you actually manage to say something about pansexuality that doesn’t simultaneously talk shit on bisexuality and ignore that trans* bisexuals actually exist.
the fact that women’s healthcare seems to be a joke among men is sickening.
lance armstrong loses a testicle and everyone’s like “oh man must have been so hard for him poor guy losing his manhood LIVESTRONG” and angelina jolie gets the jokes after her mother died from cancer and she’s trying to protect herself????
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Wow. Yeah. Definitely. That’s the only reason. To insult other people. It has absolutely nothing to do with how I personally identify and what words I like to use.
you can call yourself whatever you like, but i’ve never met a pansexual who ever described their preference for the term in a way that wasn’t biphobic so i hope you’ll forgive me if i’m a little suspicious of people who use the term “pansexual”
still reeling over that fuckin COD post tbh
maybe it was a joke somehow????
still reeling over that fuckin COD post tbh
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i cannot even function after reading that i am the literal embodiment of shock and appall right now
because it’s marketed more to men than to women
you’re a misogynist.
i like the implication that men find it easier to emotionally connect to a dog than a woman and that that’s for some reason not an extremely fucked up thing about our culture
Is that really a problem even if that were true? A male not only needs a woman in life, but a loyal companion, whether that be another man or a dog.
oh my god why are you following me
like literally everything you said in response to this post is so offensive i cannot believe you even scroll past anything i post on a regular basis, let alone actually read any of it
why are you even following me i don’t understand
if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit
just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin
ḱerberos means “spotted”
that’s right
hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot
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Badass Mion to the rescue.
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because it’s marketed more to men than to women
you’re a misogynist.
i like the implication that men find it easier to emotionally connect to a dog than a woman and that that’s for some reason not an extremely fucked up thing about our culture
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