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An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola
the_newsbeagle writes: Outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola follow a depressing pattern: People start to get sick, public health authorities get wind of the situation, and an all-out scramble begins to determine where the disease started and how it's spreading. Barbara Han, a code-writing ecologist, hopes her algorithms will put an end to that reactive model. She wants to predict outbreaks and enable authorities to prevent the next pandemic. Han takes a big-data approach, using a machine-learning AI to identify the wild animal species that carry zoonotic diseases and transmit them to humans.
If we can predict which species may carry infections capable of jumping to humans, we can monitor the potential hot spots where people interact with these creatures. One day, I hope that biologists will forecast disease outbreaks in the same way meteorologists forecast the weather.
That's a noble goal. But there was nothing in the article indicating it actually works.
A new strain of ebola causes animal to start bleeding as if they'd been shot...
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While I realize that Ebola outbreaks tend to originate in under-developed or war-ravaged parts of the world, it seems a bit harsh to refer to the first victims as "wild animals". :(
Liberalism is a mental illness.
Sometimes I wonder if we need a massive epidemic to bring the human race back into balance.
But then I think "Except for my friends and family", which ends up bringing me back to the beginning of my thought experiment.
"I'm a humble person really,
I'm actually much greater than I think I am"
But it's the Republicans that want us to die from Ebola. To die from Ebola.
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This is conclusive proof.
AI will track all humans and decide which to genocide in the coming climate change disaster.
Republicans are working hard to make Evola spread like wildfire. Like wildfire. They hate us and want us to die. They're the mental ones. Mental ones.
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AI and analytics and all is great, but that's easy, just engineering. Getting the data is hard, especially for ebola. It crops up in remote areas and spreads very quickly, and you only learn about it when it's already an emergency. You have to trace it back during the emergency because there's no way to get the data prior, the areas are simply too remote. Without that data, this is at best a thought exercise.
She wants to predict outbreaks and enable authorities to prevent the next pandemic.
it's easy to prevent, you just need good sanitation laws. the problem we face is corrupt governments who don't give a flying fuck about their people. there is a reason that outbreaks start in poor areas with bad/no sanitation practices.
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So now computer models are AI? Wow.
Republicans are insane. They hate everyone, HATERS! But noone and I mean noBODY is going to pop my biscuit. When you peel back the skin from the republicans heart it smells like the feces of a thousand demons. I've seen the lemons in the night and they will FUCK YOU LIKE YOU DESERVE. You people need to wake up. Go on and laugh, and mark me a troll, but if you keep pissing up those ropes you've been pissing on you are going to have ti climb them sooner or later. And Death is waiting there, just laughing at you and playing his fiddle and eating his pudding pie.
Please read the definition of "Perseveration". Yet more proof (as if we needed it) that you are crazy.
"Outbreaks of infectious diseases like Ebola follow a depressing pattern: People start to get sick, public health authorities get wind of the situation, and an all-out scramble begins to determine where the disease started and how it's spreading"
I though Ebola spread because of the traditional burial practices of the indigenous peoples. Namely some traditional healer traveling from the next village over, performing a 'purification' ritual, consisting of a crude form of embalming and 'sitting in' with the deceased. The healer goes back to her home village and dies from Ebola. People from miles around attend the funeral and go back home and spread Ebola. Over three hundred cases from the one funeral ref.
Anyone else imagine Arnold calling up wild animals from a pay phone?