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Steve Strogatz

Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz, Susan and Barton Winokur Distinguished Professor at Cornell University, applies math to biology and hosts The Joy of Why.

Oct 9, 2026

Soren WheelerHOST
23:16
Ooh
23:17
... from records at this hospital, where the women had been followed up for years afterwards, so they knew who survived and who didn't, and if they died, how many years till they died.
23:27
I mean, they had all the data, but it just had never been analyzed.
23:31
And so she was able to train...
23:34
Again, this is around 2014.
23:35
She used machine learning, she and her team, to build a prediction machine for assessing risk of breast cancer from one mammogram, and it's now the state of the art.
23:47
It certainly was better than any method that, that was known at the time, and it has been tested in countries all around the world, hospitals all over, and it really works.
Soren WheelerHOST
24:19
You have to feed it to the machine.

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