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• IDG Contributor Network: You‘re not paranoid if everyone is against you

  05-04-2018 21:21
  Sometimes I wonder how Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and other IT security professionals manage to get out of bed in the morning to face another day of bad guys.  It seems like the most sensible course of action would be to pull the covers back up and hide.  Churchill anecdotally pulled the covers up to his chin and had a glass of Pol Roger, but only about half of the world was against him at the time.Every CISO wakes up every day knowing that significant parts of the wo
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Sensitivity: Important for bedside manner and algorithmic diagnostics

  05-04-2018 20:47
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School recently released a study in which researchers built a deep learning algorithm capable of assessing whether a cluster of lymph node cells contain cancer with a 92 percent success rate based on image recognition-based classification. While a 92 percent diagnostic success rate is typically more favorable than, say, a 90 percent diagnostic success rate, in a field with stakes as high as those in healthcare, the nature of those kinds o
  
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