Luis M. Rocha @lmrocha@qoto.org
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
"there were a few relative success stories in East Asia. But everywhere across Europe and the Americas, there are no real successes; it’s just degrees of failure. "
it's also sad that people in the west don't seem to realize how much of a failure the pandemic response was in their countries compared to the relative successes.
Dr. Fauci Looks Back: ‘Something Clearly Went Wrong’ https://nyti.ms/3mTaNkg
New paper from our our NIH-NLM funded project to develop a user-centered app for #epilepsy patients. #DataScience #HCI
Understanding Contexts and Challenges of Information Management for epilepsy Care
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3580949
Luis M. Rocha
boosted
This is the single best piece on pandemic preparedness that I’ve read in three years. From the White House to the Gates Foundation, from the CDC to the various think tanks pondering these issues, you’ve got to take what Anne Sosin and Martha Lincoln say here and act on it. Biomedical approaches, alone, are desperately insufficient to meet the coming plague. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/pandemic-preparation-social-conditions/
Luis M. Rocha
boosted
Seems so obvious that companies should revert to their own domains for authoritative information issuance. Spin up their own Mastodon instance, use RSS, whatever. But relying on a third-party domain for authoritative information under their name was always a material risk, and now there is no turning back given the ongoing authentication debacle.
In a sane country, these child abusing profiteers would lose custody of their children, not be elected. #nraisaterroristorganization
@freemo that is very silly. Vaccines demonstrably save many lives (with antibiotics the key reason for population explosion in xx century). In contrast there is zero, zilch, nada evidence that guns save lives ---the net effect in killings is demonstrably more death as you acknowledged, while the opposite is true for vaccines. You think they do, but, alas, no demonstration.
This comparison with anti-vaxxers makes no sense at all
That is just completely false. Compute all statistics you want. Your odds of dying from a gun (suicide or homicide, together or separately) in Europe are lower than in the US. And if your US household has guns, you are much more likely to get shot than if it doesn't (after controlling for income, neighborhood, etc ). Guns don't make you or society safety. They just make you feel that way. But feeling is not science.
Don't bother saying you computed this otherwise in some data savvy way, if you have not published it. And don't insult us with saying we don't know statistics. I have been doing AI and data science professionally since the late 80s with the resume and published work to back that up.
@freemo keep playing fantasy science. I'm out.
@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj I thought you were better than this.
@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj yes, the statisticians who publish in the new England journal of medicine and lancet areb known to be rookies... #fantasy
@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj they did. The studies I sent, separate these, obviously.
@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj I don't have to provide data for what *you* are arguing. That's your job. Go ahead and publish it. I gave you published evidence in strong support of my claim: more guns --> increased mortality. If you have evidence against the current scientific evidence, which can sustain peer-review, by all means publish it. Restating your beliefs without proof (beyond your own mind) is not enough and it is dishonest to claim your belief invalidates current peer-reviewed and replicated studies without demonstration.
@freemo @thatguyoverthere @mike805 @pj that is just patently false. All data points to the opposite. No evidence whatsoever (from all other similar countries) that regulating the use of guns leads to people dying en masse. That's just silly and totally false.
@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj I meant: "certainly two swords would not have been enough."
@thatguyoverthere @mike805 @freemo @pj there is much context, and prophecy parallelism, in that passage to make that such a simple case. The sermon on the mount is much more relevant to understand Jesus' moral teachings, than confusing/ambiguous (”two swords are enough”) prophetic statements just prior to arrest.
Personally, and this is just me, I read that passage as an indication of the futility of the few arms his disciples could buy from selling their clothes, in the presence of the might of the Roman army. Certainly two swords weird have both been enough... So, I interpret this as as call to focus on what matters about his message, which is the opposite of swords.
- Complex Networks and Systems
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/publications.php
- Social and Biomedical Complexity
- https://casci.binghamton.edu/research_interests.php, https://csbc.indiana.edu/
- Politics and Rants
- https://hey-city-zen.blogspot.com/
Post-identity earthling working on complex systems, networks, biomedicine, AI, evolution. Music, politics, DJ as E-Trash. Life through parrhesia. "E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara".
Professionally, I'm the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science (Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering), Binghamton University (State University of New York), where I lead the Complex Adaptive Systems and Computational Intelligence (CASCI: https://casci.binghamton.edu/) lab. I'm also Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian da Ciencia in Portugal.
Joined Sep 2018
