Enhancement of old colour photographs using Generative Adversarial Networks
It’s almost Christmas, I haven’t posted anything in a while and I see that WordPress has an Image Compare feature, so let’s have some colourful fun.
When I’m not at the computer writing R code, I can often be found at the computer processing photographs. Or at the computer browsing Twitter, which is how I came across Stuart Humphryes, a digital artist who enhances autochromes. Autochromes are early colour photographs, generated using a process patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903. You can find and download many examples of them online. Stuart uses a variety of software tools to clean, enhanc...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - December 23, 2021 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: multimedia enhancement gan image photography processing python Source Type: blogs
THCB Gang Episode 76, Dec 23 1pm PT – 4pm ET
This is the last THCB Gang of what has been a long, grueling, but enthralling year. And every week (well almost every week) we have had a group from across the health care luminescence to discuss it.
Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang at 1pm PT 4pm ET Thursday for an hour of topical and sometime combative conversation on what’s happening in health care and beyond will be THCB regular writer Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); delivery & tech expert Vince Kuraitis (@VinceKuraitis); privacy expert and entrepreneur Deven McGraw (@HealthPrivacy); WTF Health host & Health IT girl Jessica DaMassa (@jessdamassa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Abdul Ghafar Tags: THCB Gang Deven McGraw Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Jessica DaMassa Kim Bellard Marcus Whitney Matthew Holt Raj Aggarwal Vince Kuraitis Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Keep exterminating those Amelekites!
The Amelekites were exterminated by Saul (1 Samuel 15); then they were exterminated again by David (1 Samuel 27). But here they are again, just a couple of years later! They attack the Philistine city where David ' s band has been staying, but unlike the Israelites, they don ' t kill anybody, they just take captives. Hmm. Anyway, David exterminates them again, except for 400 men who escape on camels. Note again divination with the ephod, a frequent motif in Samuel.30 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,2 and ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at Health IT Ups and Downs in 2021 – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 77
For the 77th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re taking a look back at the ups and downs of Health IT in 2021. While 2020 is the one that will go down in infamy because of COVID, I have a feeling that many of our COVID memories are going to be more about 2021 […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 13, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn John Lynn and Colin Hung Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Podcasts #HITtheTrails Abner Mason Cerner ConsejoSano directtrust Health Data Sharing Health IT Health IT Podcasts Healthcare Podcasts HIT Like a Girl Podcast Joy Rios Nuance Shereese Maynard Source Type: blogs
poem
The Truth about Black HolesMy son read somewhere on The internet that a giant blackHole is hurtling through spaceHoovering up everything in its path.He ’d read it may approach Earth,That if we fall into this trapWhere even light cannot escapeIt will be a fate worse than death.You can imagine his distress.He envisions a lightless awarenessWithout the passage of time.Physical stillness, meaningless silence,Like being buried aliveOnly paralyzed and unableTo hear the sound of your own nailsScratching against the lid of a coffin.I told him black holes certainly existBut they generally don ’t move.They don't wande...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - December 1, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Researchers Want To Create Safe, Inclusive Virtual Reality Hangouts For Teens
By Emma L. Barratt
The advent of the internet shifted how we socialise. Chat rooms, forums, and eventually social media platforms opened up new ways to both communicate and express ourselves. Online anonymity, for example, allowed us to be whoever we pleased to anyone with a connection — for better or worse. Psychological research followed this shift, and decades later there are troves of papers on almost every aspect of online interaction you could hope to explore.
As technology continues to march onwards, it’s brought with it increasingly accessible options for socialising in virtual reality (VR). Though VR is...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 30, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Social Technology Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Onomastics
No, it doesn ' t mean what you probably think it means, whatever that may be. It ' s the study of proper names. The Tanakh/Old Testament is the source of most of the popular names for Christian as well as Jewish children. I haven ' t done any sort of a study, my observations are purely impressionistic, but it ' s interesting to think about which names are popular and which are not. Of course fashions change and it depends on time, place and culture. The supply of boy ' s names is much larger, since most of the stories focus on male exploits and many women are never named at all -- just So-And-So ' s wife or conc...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 14, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Products and Perspectives at the Medical Practice Excellence Leaders Conference by MGMA
Since many of you weren’t able to travel yet, I thought it would be fun to share some of the companies I met with at the MGMA Medical Practice Excellence Leaders conference that happened this week in San Diego. I get it that many budgets are stretched and some were just afraid of the risks […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Deputy Elena Nestor Healthmark Group HIT Like a Girl Podcast Intrado Joy Rios Medical Practice Excellence Conference MGMA MGMA 2021 MGMA21 nThrive Source Type: blogs
Study finds ultimate hack to protect teen brains from harmful screen time: Exercise (and good role-modeling)
Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how Instagram was affecting teen mental health. In particular, some internal studies at Facebook (which owns Instagram) appeared to confirm that when teen girls used the site, they suffered poorer body image and were at increased risk for depression and eating disorders.
But is social media use itself at fault for making teen mental health worse? While some studies suggest it is, others paint a more nuanced picture, finding it difficult to pinpoint problems with screen time itself versus other factors sometimes associated with social media use that may reduce teen well...
Source: SharpBrains - October 27, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation adolescents exercise Facebook Instagram mental wellbeing Physical-activity psychosomatic role-modeling screen time teen teen mental health Source Type: blogs
I ’m your primary care doctor. May I take your order?
My Tuesday out of clinic started off like any other Tuesday. I got up (sluggish, still chronically sleep-deprived), scrubbed my face and brushed my teeth, slipped into workout clothes then set to getting my two girls ready for school. After packing lunches, brushing hair, and waiving to the bus, I sat down to do whatRead more …I’m your primary care doctor. May I take your order? originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 23, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anonymous" rel="tag" > Anonymous < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
A Scary Time for Teens? Compared to When?
David BoazIt ' s a scary time to be a teenager,blares the Washington Post. " 51 percent of teens said they felt this is a bad time to be growing up . . . and 62 percent of parents said the same. " Why?There are plenty of reasons both generations might feel this is a particularly difficult time to be a kid in high school: the prevalence of gun violence, the persistence of systemic racism, the specter of police brutality, the pressures of social media, the volatility of contemporary politics and, of course, the still enduring stress of thecoronavirus pandemic.Then there is the existential threat of climate change, which loom...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
In “Riding” Abortion, Is Greg Abbott Driving Texas Toward Divestiture?
By MIKE MAGEE
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been on a tear lately, and his central theme appears to be “revanchism.” Faced with declining demographics, he is retaliating against enemies and newcomers alike, aligning himself with slippery politicians and vigilantes. As they say in Texas, “He’s on a first-name basis with the bottom of the deck”, and the game he’s playing appears to be “South Africa – 1950.”
The formal establishment of apartheid in South Africa occurred in 1948, though racial injustice had been baked in centuries earlier. Violence and intimidation, embedded in legislation su...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Politics Abortion Frederick Haynes III greg abbot Mike Magee South Africa Texas Source Type: blogs
Who Do You Think Is Behind The Tide Of COVID19 Misinformation?
This appeared last week in Australia: ‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Misinformation fuels vaccine hesitancy By Jewel Topsfield October 5, 2021 — 5.00am Margaret Thanos was so overwhelmed by what she had read online about whether it was safe for young people her age to get the AstraZeneca vaccine she found herself sobbing outsi de the chemist on the day of her injection. “The fear from what I had heard and online misinformation meant I was afraid I was going to die even though statistically it’s so unlikely,” says Ms Thanos, a 21-year-old artist, who is now fully vaccinated. COVID-19 is regarded as the first...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
A Jekyll And Hyde Emotion? Research On Anger, Digested
This study provided evidence of “the important role of anger in the psychological process underlying moral courage,” the team wrote. Of course, a person’s individual moral framework is crucial here, though. If the sight of women venturing outdoors alone or going to work, say, deeply offends you, then your resulting outrage will likely propel you to action, too.
Expressing anger can also make you seem more authentic and sincere. At least, this was suggested by a 2021 study of Kickstarter pitch videos. Entrepreneurs are often encouraged to be only positive about their ventures, commented the researchers. But they fo...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 12, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Anger Source Type: blogs
