Category Archives: Phytomedicine

It’s time to get your mind out of the gutter.

By Peter D’Adamo A few years back, upon purchasing a new textbook, Protein Misfolding Diseases: Current and Emerging Principles and Therapies. I began my exploration by doing what any self-respecting academic would do when presented with a 900+ page reference work: I leafed thru the Index, hoping to recognize something that interested me. Here I

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Building an AI-based botanical medicine indicator

I’ve been exploring artificial intelligence (AI) modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN), a great resource for legally stealing very useful tools made by people far smarter than me. One of their featured machine learning modules is also one of the simplest. It’s called the ‘Naive Bayes’ algorithm. I like simple, so I started

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