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HIGH SCORES VS HUMANS. "In 2 of the 3 competitions we beat a majority of competitors, and in the third, we achieved 94 percent of the best competitor’s score. In the best case, with an ongoing competition, we beat 85.6 percent of the teams and achieved 95.7 percent of the top submissions score." (MIT's Data Science Machine). https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

VERACITY TESTS. "Meant to replace human intuition eventually when it comes to the search for buried patterns, the Data Science Machine as it is called, managed to outperform human teams in three data science competitions." https://lnkd.in/dpR5gRZ View in LinkedIn

DEEP FEATURE SYNTHESIS. "The algorithm the machine uses to achieves this, called Deep Feature Synthesis, went up against human teams in three data science competitions. Out of 906 teams, the Machine beat 615." (MIT's Data Science Machine). https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

DATA SCIENCE MACHINE. "Max Kanter, a master’s student in computer science, and his advisor, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, a research scientist at MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory – have created the Data Science Machine to find patterns and select which data points are relevant, without the problem-solving help of humans." https://lnkd.in/dG_krDG View in LinkedIn

DRUG DEVELOPMENT. "Cheaper faster drug development validated by the repositioning of drugs against neglected tropical diseases. Eve integrates and automates library-screening, hit-confirmation, and lead generation through cycles of quantitative structure activity relationship learning and testing. Using econometric modelling we demonstrate that the use of AI to select compounds economically outperforms standard drug screening." https://lnkd.in/dhx5ZNk View in LinkedIn

FACT NOT THEORY. "Much like evolution itself, extensive HGT in the microbial world is a fact and not a ‘theory’. However, understanding the routes, causes, and consequences of horizontal gene flow as well as constructing the actual, quantitative theoretical framework of this pervasive process will keep many biologists busy for decades to come." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

TRADITIONAL METHODS. "Bacterial and archaeal conjugation (prokaryotic sex) is a mechanism of genetic material transfer between microbial cells that combines features of selfish genetic elements and devices for gene transfer." https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

EVOLVABLE AND ADAPTABLE? "Both theoretical models and tantalizing experimental clues suggest that HGT is essential for microbial survival and could be an evolvable, adaptive capacity mediated by dedicated vehicles originating from domesticated selfish elements. Yet this concept runs afoul of the distrust of ‘evolution of evolvability’ that is deeply ingrained among biologists." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

DOMINANT PROCESS. "There is no reasonable doubt anymore that HGT is a dominant process in microbial evolution that generally occurs at a high rate. Moreover, the relevance of ‘horizontal’ as applied to gene flow is validated by the strong evidence of the existence of a central vertical, tree-like trend in genome evolution." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn

LAST BURST. "Thus, the acquisition of numerous genes from the proto-mitochondrion comes across as the last major burst of HGT (other than the acquisition of chloroplast genes at the base of the Archaeplastida), although numerous lineage-specific acquisitions of relatively small but biologically consequential groups of bacterial genes as well as eukaryote-to-eukaryote transfers undoubtedly occurred at later stages." (HGT = horizontal gene transfer). https://lnkd.in/dSemZpD View in LinkedIn