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Fascinating. I had no idea retinas were sexually dimorphic. I wonder if the difference serves a purpose or is just a consequence of some other adaptation.
by Causality1 5y ago
Fascinating. I had no idea retinas were sexually dimorphic. I wonder if the difference serves a purpose or is just a consequence of some other adaptation.
- slibhb 5y agoNeither did doctors apparently. If everything is kosher, they've proved some level of sexual dimorphism and now they can investigate and perhaps find out what it is. This is an interesting use of machine learning. We (or at least I) normally think of these models as replacing or complementing humans. But using them as a driver for research is cool.
- esyir 5y agoThere's also the risk of severe overfitting to some latent variable. I haven't quite dug into the work itself yet, but it does bring back memories of some case of perfect diagnosis due to hospital documentation process though.