AMY in the house
CA dreaming
I'm not biased!
Mathy-math
Semi-secrets of your leaders
100
This early roman naturalist was cited by Dr. Gladfelter in her talk.
Who is Pliny the Elder?
100
This team member is joining us from Manteca, CA!
Who is Ramon Rodriguez, team Nuclear Formation!
100
This is a systematic, as opposed to a random, distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure.
What is bias?
100
This is a procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps that frequently involves a set sequence of operations.
What is an algorithm?
100
This team member once joined a lab because they could bring their dog with them.
Who is Jennifer Fung?
200
The Gladfelter lab found this phenomena occurs that may contribute to forming subcellular territories.
What is phase separation (or droplet formation)?
200
This team member is joining us from Los Angeles, CA.
Who is Maria Contreras, Team Cells on the Move!
200
This is an example of this type of bias: "Amazon had to scrap an automated recruiting tool that was favoring male candidates over female candidates because the algorithm was trained on historical patterns in which men are primarily those hired.
What is latent bias or prejudiced bias?
200
This is a bigger-picture explanation that brings together finer details, for example how different populations' interactions lead to the spread of an epidemic, or how the action of multiple proteins act to create cell movement.
What is a model?
200
This team member once broke a TV by losing control of their Wii controller.
Who is Katie Padilla?
300
This protein was the focus of Dr. Gladfelter's research on COVID-19.
What is the N - Nucleocapsid Protein (N-Protein)?
300
This team member is joining us from Anaheim CA!
Who is Angelica Ruiz, Team Covid and the Navajo Nation!
300
The type of bias demonstrated here by scientist Joy Buolamwini, where facial recognition software doesn't recognize her unless she puts on a white mask.
What is interaction bias? The training set uses primarily caucasian faces, not those of mixed ethnicities.
300
This is a method that will adjust values measured on different scales so that they can be compared on a relative common scale.
What is normalization?
300
This team member earned their degree in the Netherlands
What is Andrea Serra Marques?
400
This is scientific name for one of the primary organisms studied in the Gladfelter lab.
What is Ashbya or Ashby gossypii?
400
This team member is joining us from South San Francisco!
Who is Madu Mzerem, team Machine Learning!
400
This type of bias occurs when a dataset overrepresents one certain group and underrepresents another. An example may be when we search for 'bride' and get this...
What is Selection Bias? The skewed results that lack brides from different cultures results because major search engines and their algorithms were developed in the West. Therefore, algorithms are often more likely to recognize a bride and a groom in a western-style wedding but fail to do so in a wedding from a different culture.
400
This process picks out the pixels in an image that have a certain intensity.
What is thresholding?
400
This team member had to have 4 teeth extracted because of kickboxing injuries.
Who is Wallace Marshall?
500
LLPS is an acroynm for this phenomena that allows for the concentration of molecules. Disrupting it may be a good way to develop drugs against viral diseases.
Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
500
This team member is joining us from Murietta, CA.
Who is Zach Pope, team Cell Symmetry!
500
The type of issue that these statistics represent...
"Studies from 2019 found that 80% of AI professors are men. People of color remain underrepresented in major tech companies. At a 2016 conference on AI, Timnit Gebru, a Google AI researcher, reported there were only six black people out of 8,500 attendees."
What is a lack of diversity in the AI industry?
"very few people of color are involved in machine learning decision-making or design. If innovators are homogenous, the results and innovations will be too, and we’ll continue to ignore a wider range of human experience."
500
This type of equation is used in epidemiology (and chemistry) to describe how the rate of change depends on existing population sizes and other factors.
What is a differential equation?
500
This team member had a relative that was hanged during the Salem witch trials.
Who is Jason Town?