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To be fair the excretion analysis may be useful for determining health problems before they become more pronounced: urine analysis for diabetics, women seeking

To be fair the excretion analysis may be useful for determining health problems before they become more pronounced: urine analysis for diabetics, women seeking pregnancy tests, any other nephrotic issues; and fecal analysis for cancers, parasitic and viral tests. Then you would need to pair that data to the subject. While there's probably better and less-gross ways of doing this, I like the spirit behind it (pun intended).

JGM_io 7y ago
I totally see the value of analysis, butt it is a clear sign of how our society is clearly focused on too many shallow and superfluous endeavours... Just like how our economy is threatened by people only buying what they really need..
- JoeAltmaier 7y ago
  If you think public health is shallow...I'm not sure I get where this is going?
  - JGM_io 7y ago
    It's not about public health. My comment is about anal recognition technology (my god..) being superfluous and yes : shallow thinking Energy would be way better spent on the actual analysis of diseases vs identifying someone. In my opinion of course
    - JoeAltmaier 7y ago
      Every part of the problem bears scrutiny. Both can be done. There is no 'vs'. So often arguments seems to assume some kind of scarcity of resources; some poverty of intellect that must be rationed. That's a sad viewpoint, and unworthy.
      - JGM_io 6y ago
        Although I do agree with the general notion of your argument, I believe in this case it is being applied too abstract. Yes, both can be done. Yet it is not the scarcity of intellect I'm criticising. It's the researchers time that is being spent (or wasted imho) that is the focus of my criticism. A single RFID, QR code could've worked. Would take about 5 minutes dev time. I can't think of having to classify the images
        JoeAltmaier 6y ago
        Maybe we're overthinking this. Learning algorithms can be thrown together pretty quickly (a set of only 21 samples in this case). And further, aren't we talking graduate students? Everything they do is a dress rehearsal for real research later in their career.
        JGM_io 6y ago
        Would those be stool samples?

JGM_io 7y ago

I totally see the value of analysis, butt it is a clear sign of how our society is clearly focused on too many shallow and superfluous endeavours... Just like how our economy is threatened by people only buying what they really need..

JoeAltmaier 7y ago
If you think public health is shallow...I'm not sure I get where this is going?
- JGM_io 7y ago
  It's not about public health. My comment is about anal recognition technology (my god..) being superfluous and yes : shallow thinking Energy would be way better spent on the actual analysis of diseases vs identifying someone. In my opinion of course
  - JoeAltmaier 7y ago
    Every part of the problem bears scrutiny. Both can be done. There is no 'vs'. So often arguments seems to assume some kind of scarcity of resources; some poverty of intellect that must be rationed. That's a sad viewpoint, and unworthy.
    - JGM_io 6y ago
      Although I do agree with the general notion of your argument, I believe in this case it is being applied too abstract. Yes, both can be done. Yet it is not the scarcity of intellect I'm criticising. It's the researchers time that is being spent (or wasted imho) that is the focus of my criticism. A single RFID, QR code could've worked. Would take about 5 minutes dev time. I can't think of having to classify the images
      - JoeAltmaier 6y ago
        Maybe we're overthinking this. Learning algorithms can be thrown together pretty quickly (a set of only 21 samples in this case). And further, aren't we talking graduate students? Everything they do is a dress rehearsal for real research later in their career.
        JGM_io 6y ago
        Would those be stool samples?