1/20/23: From kidneys to survival decision trees and random survival forests

Agenda and Minutes

There are a lot of these aluminum quote plaques posted all the way around a circular observation deck at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff.

Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of the former planet Pluto. (At Lowell Observatory)

 

 

A wooden ladder in the observatory building in which Pluto was discovered in 1930.

(at the Lowell Observatory).

1. Announcements

2. Reading and discussion

• Readings for today: 
• https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/2/572. We have read through Table 1 and can start after that next time.

The meeting ended here.

• https://planet4589.org/space/index.html, from Jonathan's Space Pages (https://www.planet4589.org). 
• 1/6/23: We finished up to the link tag "Launch Designations and Piece Designations" on https://planet4589.org/space/gcat/web/intro. So, next time we will start with that.
  

• Here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
• What is the source?
• What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
• Why is that advance important?
• What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
• What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
• What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
• What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
• Questions from the group?

 3. Previously completed readings include:

• We finished section 6 of MR paper (C:\Users\jdberleant\Dropbox\research\SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\byOthers\MatthewRoughanDraft.pdf). This completes the parts that we planned to read. 
• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9o66fH_sgo (about MOXIE device which converts CO2 to oxygen). We then read a bit more about MOXIE on wikipedia.
• Https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946 on "progress studies." Completed 9/30/22.
• Ryan et al., "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009. Completed 7/22/22.
• Various previous papers.