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> IIRC (or someone was pulling my leg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), BMIR at Stanford was doing NLP ML of medical &| biomedical informatics papers and trying to draw new conclusi
by nerdponx 3y ago
> IIRC (or someone was pulling my leg ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ), BMIR at Stanford was doing NLP ML of medical &| biomedical informatics papers and trying to draw new conclusions from automated meta-analyses of existing papers.
Seems like a silly idea, but it's hard to know if it's really a bad idea until you try it. ML algorithms are specifically good at finding complicated high-order interactions that might not be obvious to a human, and we're still not very good at knowing when there will or won't be something interesting in a new dataset. It's not unreasonable to want to just try everything.