How Outliers Helped Defeat Cholera
In the 1850s, there were a lot of things we didn’t know yet: how to create an airplane, how to split an atom, or how to control the spread of a common but deadly disease: cholera. When a cholera ou...
22 Nov 201410min
Hunting for the Higgs
Machine learning and particle physics go together like peanut butter and jelly--but this is a relatively new development. For many decades, physicists looked through their fairly large datasets usi...
16 Nov 201410min
