Alysia abbott biography of rory
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Rory Sayres
Rory is a researcher in the Google Health AI group. He focuses on intelligence augmentation of medical experts using machine-learning-based assistance. His background includes neuroscience and human/computer interaction. He has previously studied the human visual system using methods including psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Authored Publications
Preview abstract Objective: To understand and highlight the differences in clinical, demographic, and image quality characteristics between patient-taken (PAT) and clinic-taken (CLIN) photographs of skin conditions. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study applied logistic regression to data from deidentified cases in Stanford Health Care’s eConsult system, from November to January Cases with undiagnosable or multiple conditions or cases with both patient and clinician image sources were excluded, leaving PAT cases and CLIN cases. Demographic characteristic factors, such as age and sex we
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Global education (Candy Store, part II)
I crashed my South African pal Janets favorite course on the study of Africa and its problems, taught by the Pulitzer-winning scholar Caroline Elkins. We were walking toward the classroom building with another Nieman, Zimbabwean Hopewell Chinono, when photographer Gary Knight swept up to join us in his wonderfully British way (is bescarfed a word)?
BTW: This is the first time I have ever seen Gary Knight holding a camera.
You two together in a course on Africa? he said to Janet and Hopewell, eyebrows raised, his usual grin its usual huge. You two examining how her europeisk ancestors decimated your African ancestors? Fantastic!
My favorite thing about being tossed into the intellectual/multicultural stew that fryst vatten the Nieman Fellowship fryst vatten making friends with journalists who have covered extraordinary events all over the world — the end of Apartheid, drug wars in Mexico, conflict in Kosovo, gunfire in a Fallujah
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‘Fairyland’ Review: Scoot McNairy and Emilia Jones Show Life as a Work in Progress | Sundance
Fairyland, the directorial debut of Andrew Durham, starts with Alysia (Nessa Doughterty) learning that her mother has died in a car crash. She overhears her father Steve (Scoot McNairy) on the phone, getting the details of the accident that will leave her motherless, and will throw her life in an entirely new direction. Based on Alysia Abbott’s memoir of the same name, and with a screenplay written by Durham, Fairyland explores the difficulties of being thrown into responsibility, the difficulties of parenthood, and trying to find out who you are much later in life than expected.
Fairyland begins in , as Steve moves Alysia to San Francisco, as he attempts to become an author. The two move into a questionable apartment with some surprising roommates, including a drug dealer, a drag queen, and a guy who sometimes just sleeps on the couch. From very early on, we see th