This is not my usual Killer Algorithm story whereby I talk about
how companies pass judgment with flawed data or create algorithms with SQL parameters to deny service, insurance claims, etc. This article here talks about the automation process of copyrights and the use of algorithms to police it on auto pilot. Sounds like fun stuff, well not really.
If you read the entire article you can see where the robots are going to make plenty of errors with this and it was already shown with Michelle Obama’s speech at the DNC and a few more places like the Hugo Awards and NASA, so we are in for a lot of fun here and a bunch of interrupted video streams. Come on let’s face it if NASA, the White House and others are already caught up in this mess, what does that say for the rest of us? Should we go back to “elevator music” <grin>. This is just one more area where the algorithms are taking over and there’s software companies out there of course trying to perfect this. Here’s the image below from the full story at WIRED.
Ok so someone gives you permission to use copyrighted material, is the algorithm going to know, probably not so here we go again with machines and humans needing to work together as someone will have to alter the structured query language that calls that copyright violation when videos stream. When you think about this enforcement effort, look at the big money these software folks want to make doing this too, and it’s big.
Now let me say this, the work it will take to have folks changing and allowing parameters on queries to be changed all the time to allow folks who DO have permission to use copyrighted material will be huge and gee this sounds like it will create a few jobs maybe? How is this going to evolve to work? If it is not changed for selected material to be used, well guess what, the Killer Algorithms strike again! The article goes on to say that Ustream has more traffic per second than YouTube so we are talking a lot streaming here.
At the Hugo awards they used the “free” Ustream service and were unaware that this would happen and Ustream was not contacted before the show and the software is called Vobie and is used by many movie studios, record labels, etc. and was developed in China. The Hugo awards were cut off and apparently not able to get it back online as they could not over ride the algorithmic bots that process the information looking for copyright violations.
Now to continue on the Feds could shut you down for copyright violations too if they get in on the act and they have made some errors here too. This quote from Twitter says it all! I added my 2 cents and retweeted it as we have that in healthcare and in the financial world as our government can’t keep up with all of this and we have a Congress dumber than rocks when it comes to algorithmic processes and creating laws to work with those algos. They sit there in denial and still think they are creating definitive laws when in fact they are not as the next day after a law is passed, companies, banks, etc. are right out there creating duping algorithms that will stretch the imagination and find every loop hole and create new loop holes for whatever gets passed so we do need some algorithmic centric laws soon.
If you want to read the other 40 some chapters on Killer Algorithms, here’s the link to the links…
Attack of the Killer Algorithms–Digest & Links for All Chapters–on How Math and Crafty Formulas Today Running on Servers 24/7 Make Life Impacting Decisions About You
As far as Algo Duping, here’s a post from a few days ago that explains how we get sucked in with marketing and how the government is oblivious as to how the processes worth with math and formulas. It’s happening out there and those naïve enough to think that algorithms alone can solve problems have another thought coming, and one that comes to mind is the re-admissions to hospitals. And what did I suggest over 3 years ago? Next link below <grin>. People that write code see a bit of future as we can surmise how the next of code will work, especially when there’s money to be made.
“Department of Algorithms – Do We Need One of These to Regulate Upcoming Laws?
Sure information is helpful and can guide us to some great solutions but there’s no “Gold Algorithm” out there that’s a one stop shop and due to digital ignorance in government the darn things become law and the machine and those with enough money to pay geeks good money to write them keep getting richer. BD
The Rise (And Need) for Human – Computer Cooperation- A Good Thing and a Challenge for a Society, Governments and Companies That Have Been “Algo Duped” for Way Too Long (Video)
As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a database of reference files of copyrighted material. These systems can block streaming video in real time, while it is still being broadcast, leading to potentially worrying implications for freedom of speech.
On Tuesday, some visitors trying to get to the livestream of Michelle Obama’s widely lauded speech at the Democratic National Convention were met with a bizarre notice on YouTube, which said that the speech had been blocked on copyright grounds.
On Sunday, a livestream of the Hugo Awards — the sci-fi and fantasy version of the Oscars — was blocked on Ustream, moments before Neil Gaiman’s highly anticipated acceptance speech. Apparently, Ustream’s service detected that the awards were showing copyrighted film clips, and had no way to know that the awards ceremony had gotten permission to use them.
Last month, footage from NASA’s triumphant Curiosity rover landing was blocked numerous times on YouTube, despite being in the public domain, because several companies — such as Scripps Local News — claimed copyright on the material.
Google is still dealing with a lawsuit filed by Viacom against YouTube. Grooveshark, an online music site, is itself being sued and has been repeatedly kicked out of Google’s Android app store (so much for brothers-in-arms).
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/streaming-videos-robotic-overlords-algorithmic-copyright-cops/all/
I think the real reason here is due to complexities with contracts today and you know this opens up some discussions for subsidiary talk. You would have to be living under a rock today and not ready news to miss the fact that big insurance conglomerates are buying up other companies. Is Aetna taking the same route United did with winning the Tri-Care contract? I don’t know if that was exactly the case but it is known they they hired the former HHS executive credited with writing the healthcare reform law as a VP and a few months before this recent event they hired the former US Assistant Attorney General from Minnesota as general counsel, so odd timing maybe or business models are changing or a bit of both. 
assessment algorithms…shareholders making it rough out there and of course few of them do any research to see where their money goes for the most part, they just want it. This is the deal right off Twitter from someone a lot smarter than me but I agree with him 100% that all these algorithms out there are essentially becoming law or darn close to it. I call it 
as “clearly erroneous, contrary to competition, and arbitrary and capricious.“
if you have no hands one somewhere along the line, somebody has to take hours and educate them and there’s a lot of that that is necessary but when you can’t find a high level Congressman, Executive, etc. without even so much as a cell phone in hand…well you get that picture..just one more figurehead that can open mouth and maybe give a good speech but knows little about the entire processes they speak of. 
the technology is good and it depends on who writes the code an how much profit they want to get out of it sometimes. The old garbage in and garbage out has not changed so again human collaboration with machines is needed and ethically sustained by all means as computer duped societies make decisions that hurt others due to what they see on the screens today and it could very well be a “spun”SQL statement or one of those that generate profit, and we don’t always know and that’s how we get duped, over and over and over. BD 
Ascension was in the news of late related to the Accretive Healthcare situation in Minnesota as they are also clients of theirs and recently signed a new agreement with the company. 
in revenue in fiscal year 2011. The acquisition is also certain to be reviewed by antitrust regulators. Hospitals systems must submit details about a planned merger or acquisition to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission if the transaction value is at least $68.2 million. 
and ends on Sunday the 9th. The celebration is to honor accomplishments made in the break throughs of drugs, research and more. The NIH needs the money provided by Congress to keep the movement going and recognition sometimes for accomplishments are not always credited or maybe made visible enough to where individuals who work hard and diligent for the sake of mankind get recognition. 
the NIH to be used to research brain injuries and this is logical of course to their cause as how many football players suffer from from this during their career or have injuries surface later after retirement. When you think about this donation for brain injuries and the research it would also serve to state that our US soldiers could benefit here as well with this research as too many of them return from battle with such injuries who didn’t have a career in football. BD 
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involved in this area to where they announced their own secure exchange for the sharing of medical records. Surescripts already had an investment in the company so perhaps with their secure exchange some of the technologies of Kryptiq may already be present? 
Kryptiq has been on a growth tear. Its sales last year jumped by 60 percent, with its workforce growing from 90 to 120. Though it doesn't release sales figures, 
so far with their investments and trips around the world. Very early on the Foundation gave a grant to the X Prize company to help organize a program for breakthroughs with TB diagnostics. We are seeing more and more of the Gates in the news and now both are taking time to speak more with the press. In addition to vaccines and contraception, toilets have entered into their realm. 
about a research project from Johns Hopkins talks about the use of synthetic collagen to better help identify the location of tumors. You can see with the picture of the mouse that the locations of prostate and pancreatic cells are lit up as cancer cells attack collagen cells and thus with this methodology the tumors are easier to locate as some of course are not visible to the human eye or with other methodologies of finding them. 
to support cross-disciplinary teams of investigators in strategic areas of prostate cancer research and highly-innovative research projects with potential near-term patient benefits. These awards are given to projects not yet funded by any government or foundation program. The awards were announced after an extensive peer review process. These projects represent a range of focus and expertise that will address the most challenging problems in basic or translational research in prostate cancer. 
as if the AIDS/HIV model is coming to fruition and here’s a couple links to past efforts from the Gates Foundation as they have been investing in this area for quite a while and when you scroll down to see the rest of the list, it’s pretty astounding to include the NIH and the and 
of what level of viral suppression is achieved and how the “replicated” treatment will impact. By using simulation a lot of the “trial and error” methodologies will eventually go by the wayside. This will help a lot with clinical trials common sense tells me and can lead to accelerated efforts to work with drug resistant strains of AIDS. Data was pooled from thousands of tests of more than 20 used anti-HIV drugs. It’s all about the math and the algorithms to lead us to cures and treatments. Also in a related Johns Hopkins story this research also emerged in the cancer area with locating tumors with synthetic collagen. 
some of this especially with the $88 million being forked out with tax payer money to make this work? Yes it is a gamble even in the words of the folks from Tufts. A good point is made here as to why taxpayers are footing this bill. With technology insurance carriers have been eating the US government’s lunch for a long time and that’s no big secret for sure. It does not begin until 2014 and so far 17 doctors and facilities have opted in. 
shareholders to report to and they do make money but have obligations to re-invest as a non profit. Maybe this $80 million would have been better spent with an effort as such? Tax those data sellers and let’s get some revenue back into the government and healthcare instead of this nonsense. I think of that every time I have to pay an excise tax on a tire I need for my car so time for big business to chip in and pay excise quarter taxes and licenses for selling tax payer data and lets get some jobs back that create tangibles. More on that topic at the links below. BD 
not able to have sex or create children so I hope the memory was good. The FDA does not regulate food supplements but there have been cases of recalls to where some were found to have the same ingredients as Viagra in some amounts, but no mention of that here. I’m with the urologists on their call on this one with the “rough sex” theory. I guess he may have to wait until the technology is there to grow him a new one at Wake Forest as they did for this rabbit back in 2009. BD 
brilliance I don’t think for the most part as most of their activity revolves around repealing healthcare reform which is ridiculous as there’s no budget big enough to handle the reshuffling of the IT infrastructure needed to do something like this. In the past I have a few interviews on this blog with folks from Cook and they have been very informative and plus they are private company so they are not traded and I kind of like that these days. You can read below the comments I made on the cancellation of further expansion with Cook due to the device excise tax that is due to come on board next year. 
when you bring in banks, social networks, companies, you name it. Sure device companies may sell some data but an excise tax paid by all would include them but not as such a huge chunk and they would not be one industry singled out. We have folks sadly in Washington that are “dumber” than rocks when it comes to math and formulas and I think we might need to start electing folks that have some computer science in their background and this applied to the White House too as Sebelius and Shapiro have about run their course and now with the additional learning they have to do, they can’t think on their feet and it wastes time, time that companies and banks gobble up for profit. It is what it is. 
yourself that question they maybe some of what I say here might flying a little high for comprehension but again it is what it is. With taxes on the data sellers along with buying a license it would give law enforcement a leg to stand on and no license, a fine or shut them down. We would also need a federal website for disclosure on what type of data they sell and to who. Consumers have been wanting this forever, especially now that we are all “data chasers” fixing the flawed data out there floating around about us and that’s a chapter in the Killer Algorithm series as that’s what does all of this. Wake up. Learn to like or at least understand and tolerate math and computer formulas. 
This will be interesting to see how this plays out as for one they would really have to work hard to completely keep the radiologist out of the picture with seeing some of this but with a second set of books, anything is possible though as it said the billing was done from the new owner’s home and the fact that the name used was the former owner who is a radiologist. These are the types of fraud cases that should be worked and not some of the erroneous billing cases to where less than a million dollars are involved and where cases go back 5 to 10 years like the defibrillator case with hospitals. (see link below). 
will be the big competitor here although they have not been compared to each other and this drug does not require the steroid drug to be given at the same time for treatment. The cost is up there though with being over $7000.00 a month and it is approved for use once Docetaxel has been tried. Instead of stopping the production of the hormone testosterone, it blocks the actions. BD 
year and what nice surprise to find when he came back and it was a friend of his doing the impersonating. One nurse was a bit suspicious when he used ask.com to locate treatment plans. Now they are going through medical records to see if any harm came from the patients he saw. He did it for the money and investigators found other fake IDs and information at his home. He wrote prescriptions and some for himself while he was at it. Remember back in 2010, there was even a pilot who had the AMA fooled. BD 
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The Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office is the intellectual property administration that serves research and inventors as a liaison to those interested with working with JHU research for both academic and corporate interests. The center can offer a team effort for the creation of new drugs and treatments and help bring them to market or again as in this case bring new research technologies to the forefront for fighting and identifying disease. Biotech start up companies can benefit here as well and they say the door is open and just come knock. BD 
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Math–This Could be a Subject for Michael Moore to Explore and Document In a Movie
Screenings Too–Killer Algorithms Part 12–Medical Billing Codes Style
Assessing Consumer Credit Scores–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 21 With Flawed Data
Duping” Society Combined With A World of Rogue Algorithms & Flawed Data Continues In Markets As Seen With Knight Capital This Week-Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 36
Study Fraud With EHR Technologies, Namely Medical Records/Billing Software Used by Hospitals– HHS And SEC Continue Getting Their Non-Algorithmic Fannies Kicked–Attack of the Killer Algorithms Chapter 46
SilverScript Senior Drug Program Sanctioned by Medicare Until the Payment And Billing Algorithms are Cleaned Up-Killer Algorithms Chapter 53
