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> Li began collaborating with two professors at the University of San Francisco: Hani Goodarzi, also an incoming Arc Institute Core Investigator, and Laura Van’
by epistasis 3y ago
> Li began collaborating with two professors at the University of San Francisco: Hani Goodarzi, also an incoming Arc Institute Core Investigator, and Laura Van’t Veer, a clinician who leads the I-SPY 2 Trial, a groundbreaking breast cancer trial.
These famous researchers are actually at UCSF, not University of San Francisco. UCSF is really a leader in breast cancer the world over, far more influential than Stanford's much smaller amount of faculty on the topic. So it's a bit weird to see such a basic mistake.
- BarryMilo 3y agoI wonder if journnalists used to actually do research
- boulos 3y agoIt seems to be a typo. The credits at the bottom state: > Additional co-authors are from the University of California, San Francisco, and Arc.
- pfisherman 3y agoFor those who are not familiar, the I-SPY 2 trial is quite remarkable. It is an adaptive trial design - in essence reinforcement learning with human experiments.[1] For all the criticism FDA gets, they should also get credit for leaning into new approaches to testing drugs like adaptive trials. Part of why the US remains one of the most innovative countries. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731787/
- hervature 3y agoIt should be clarified that adaptive trial design was studied for several decades before being applied to games and called reinforcement learning by computer scientists. The multi-armed bandit papers all reference "Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules" because they derived the optimal lower bound for regret [1]. [1] - https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(85)90002-8 https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(85)90002-8
- smolder 3y agoI genuinely appreciate the link, but not so much the campaigning for the FDA or USA more broadly, which, my stance aside, feels like a trap leading to a fruitless discussion.
- whalesalad 3y agouniversity of california, san francisco university of san francsico to someone not from the area this is a very easy mistake to make
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- jer0me 3y agoStanford is from the area.
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- bcrosby95 3y agoIt's pretty common to have very slight name differences for universities.
- jimbob45 3y agoAs someone who watches NCAAF, this is just the tip of the iceberg of confusing US college names.
- wombatpm 3y agoMiami University comes to mind
- SoftTalker 3y agoIIRC they recruited and actually signed a kid (Football maybe?) who later decommitted once he realized it wasn't in Florida. I'm not sure that's entirely accurate because I don't think you get to signing without an on-campus visit but maybe that isn't always true.