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| Who is this man and why should you care? |
He's Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google. Genetic tests have shown that he has a mutation in his LRRK2 gene and is at increased risk for Parkinson's disease. He's donated over $50 million dollars to Parkinson's research and he wants to do the research differently and faster. According to this article in Wired, he "is proposing to bypass centuries of scientific epistemology in favor of a more Googley kind of science. He wants to collect data first, then hypothesize, and then find the patterns that lead to answers. And he has the money and the algorithms to do it."
Read the article and see the demo here.
1 comment:
Finally, someone with money willing to change the capitalist-based bureaucracy that is the US clinical research establishment. Sounds like he's interested in a Bayesian approach to data-mining.
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