An uncompromising commitment to social justice

An Uncompromising Individualistic Formal Model of Social Activity

Social justice and community health centers: commitment to one gave rise to the other.

As an undergraduate biology major, while I still had my sights set on a career in medicine, I began my honors thesis, a comparative health policy analysis of the United States and Sweden. It was a sort of natural experiment to observe the outcomes of universal coverage. One of the central components of my work was a model depicting the interplay between health and its social determinants. Now, ...

Paul Epstein (1943–2011): A Life of Commitment to Health and Social Justice

Dr. Paul Epstein, a man with a compassionate heart who had a remarkable career in public health, died at age 67 on November 13, 2011. He loved to play basketball, even though he wasn’t tall, and he loved to distribute the ball to other players who had an open shot. If no one was open, he was more than willing to take the shot himself. He was a big fan of ‘‘Larry-ball,’’ the term some announcers...

A Strategy for an Uncompromising Incremental Learner

Multi-class supervised learning systems require the knowledge of the entire range of labels they predict. Often when learnt incrementally, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting. To avoid this, generous leeways have to be made to the philosophy of incremental learning that either forces a part of the machine to not learn, or to retrain the machine again with a selection of the historic data. ...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice