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Speaker: Jacob Barhak
Host: Gabor Szabo
Location: Zoom
Language: English

The Reference Model for disease progression was initially a diabetes model. It used the approach of assembling models and validating them against different populations from clinical trials.

The model performs simulation at the individual level while modeling entire populations using the MIcro-Simulation Tool (MIST), employing High Performance Computing (HPC), and using machine learning techniques to combine models.

The Reference Model technology was transformed to model COVID-19 near the start of the epidemic. The model is now composed of multiple models from multiple contributors that represent different phenomena: It includes infectiousness models, transmission models, human response / behavior models, hospitalization models, mortality models, and observation models. Some of those models were calculated at different scales including cell scale, organ scale, individual scale, and population scale.

The Reference Model has therefore reached the achievement of being the first known multi-scale ensemble model for COVID-19. This project is ongoing and this presentation is constantly updated for each venue. To access the most recent publication please use this link https://www.clinicalunitmapping.com/show/COVID19_Ensemble_Latest.html

Bio:
Jacob Barhak is an independent Computational Disease Modeler focusing on machine comprehension of clinical data. The Reference Model for disease progression is patented technology that was self developed by Dr. Barhak. The Reference model is the most validated Diabetes model known worldwide and also the first COVID-19 multi-scale ensemble model. His efforts also include standardizing clinical data through ClinicalUnitMapping.com and he is the developer of the Micro Simulation Tool (MIST). Dr. Barhak has a diverse international background in engineering and computing science. He is active within the python community and organizes the Austin Evening of Python Coding meetup. For additional information please visit https://sites.google.com/view/jacob-barhak/home

Speaker: Maor Malka
Host: Gabor Szabo
Location: Zoom
Language: English

Given Rust's destiny to become the go-to replacement for C, a clear target for such a change would be the world of embedded microcontrollers. we sometimes tend to ignore these devices, but they cover so much of our basic appliances and they all are running C. The embedded world is notorious for its lack of capabilities of reuse and following proper safe code guidelines. this is especially true when most Embedded C developers use many tricks to get the most optimal result in regards to speed and size.
I wanted to try and leverage the power of Rust to show both its capabilities to create advanced projects easily, and do so in a "safe" manner.
I will show an example project, done on a custom STM32 microcontroller board with only 128KB Flash and 40KB running a HTTP server by becoming a USB Ethernet Adapter.
Link to Repo of stamrust
About Maor:
Currently a Digital Design Engineer at ARBE robotics Been doing embedded, board design, FPGA and system design for the past 11 years. Now starting to add rust to my toolbox 😉

Speaker: Haki Benita
Host: Gabor Szabo
Location: Zoom
Language: English

Developers who are not familiar with databases often dread them and treat them like blackboxes, but fear no more! In this talk I present advanced indexing technics to make your database faster and more efficient.

Indexes are extremely powerful and ORMs like Django and SQLAlchemy provide many ways of harnessing their powers to make queries faster and the database more efficient. In this talk I reveal the secrets of DBAs with some advanced indexing techniques such as partial, function based and inclusive B-Tree indexes, and who knows, maybe even some index types you never heard of before!