Comment Re:This this not evolution (Score 1) 253
The article specifically mentions how the large increase in number of mutations provides 'fuel' for natural selection to provide for evolution.
Comment applying machine learning? (Score 5, Interesting) 25
Whenever I see these games I wonder if there is some effort to solve the task with ml as well.
It seems like if you are getting a large number of players then you should have data on how those players are classifying the red blood cells.
Given that data we can at least attempt a couple different techniques at a classifier.
The benefit could be two fold. On one hand a decent classifier could 'help eliminate the high cost and sometimes poor accuracy of diagnosis.' On the other hand if a diagnostician is looking at a blood sample having a classifier give some probability of classification (ie. saying 'this sample is 90% probable to be malaria infected') could help the doctor in their diagnosis.
I'd love to work on that problem. A very quick search of google scholar and citeseer doesn't pop up anything on the subject though, and I don't see any api on the linked site.
The benefit could be two fold. On one hand a decent classifier could 'help eliminate the high cost and sometimes poor accuracy of diagnosis.' On the other hand if a diagnostician is looking at a blood sample having a classifier give some probability of classification (ie. saying 'this sample is 90% probable to be malaria infected') could help the doctor in their diagnosis.
I'd love to work on that problem. A very quick search of google scholar and citeseer doesn't pop up anything on the subject though, and I don't see any api on the linked site.
