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Long before we possessed computers, human beings strove to find patterns in data. Ptolemy fitted observations of the motions of the stars to a geocentric model of the cosmos, with complex epicycles to ...

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Psychiatry lacks the objective clinical tests routinely used in other specializations. Novel computerized methods to characterize complex behaviors such as speech could be used to identify and predict ...