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by olympus 5109 days ago
I really think this is cool, machine learning has a lot to offer the world and this can improve quality of life for lots of people. However, two things come to mind:

1. http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Parkinsons Does it really take 5 years for research to go mainstream? Max Little's original research on this was published in 2007. I think if I were able to better diagnose Parkinson's I would want to get it out to the public as soon as possible.

2. Why the need for clinical testing? It's not like it's a drug. Last time I checked a voice recording wasn't something that had too many side effects.