A friend of mine has been telling me for some time that I should try using Git / GitHub to keep track of my files. In this post I’ll give a bit of an overview of these (or at least my understanding of them so far!), and some of my experiences of using them so far. Some of the terminology is (in my experience) a bit confusing, so I’ll attempt to give an intuitive introduction. For any Git experts out there, please put me straight (in a comment) if I’ve got something wrong!
Miscellaneous
Test for Alzheimer’s (allegedly) no better than a coin toss
From a tweet I just came across the following article at the UK’s NHS Choices website. It raises doubts about the predictive value of a new test for Alzheimer’s disease, published in a paper here. The model aims to predict whether those suffering from mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the following year.