{"id":1364,"date":"2019-05-13T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2019-05-13T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:16:41","slug":"machine-learns-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/2019\/05\/13\/machine-learns-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Learns Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have discussed the idea of death and its many interpretations through the lense of today and technology. I would like to discuss a machine learning algorithm that can predict our premature death (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-artificial-intelligence-premature-death.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-artificial-intelligence-premature-death.html<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This algorithm was originally designed to help predict premature deaths to help with preventative healthcare in the future. \u00a0They used a model called \u201crandom forest\u201d with \u201cdeep learning\u201d trained on health data from over 500,000 people between the ages of 40 and 69. \u00a0The resulting model was able to predict red flags of serious diseases better than expert models and regressions. As these models can also be further \u201ctuned\u201d with more data, the accuracy of predictions can improve and increase in reliability. \u00a0Researchers believe that AI models like these will play essential parts within the treatment of individuals due to their manner of personalized treatment based on the lifestyle choices of the individual. This brings forth images of visits to the doctor including a questionnaire on one\u2019s current eating and exercise habits to further add data points to their models for future predictions. \u00a0A somewhat constant exposure to the idea of death just slowly pushing it back through the model with a healthy diet and rigorou exercise. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is interesting to see how predictors of serious and fatal diseases can be modeled and used to our advantage using the technology of today. \u00a0This technology can only improve and more sophisticated algorithms can spring forth in the future. It is strange and somewhat empowering to have gained another avenue in life through technology that can ward off the eventuality of our demise. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have discussed the idea of death and its many interpretations through the lense of today and technology. I would like to discuss a machine learning algorithm that can predict our premature death (https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-03-artificial-intelligence-premature-death.html). This algorithm was originally designed to help predict premature deaths to help with preventative healthcare in the future. \u00a0They used a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-b","category-sightings"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paB9Ga-m0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/death19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}