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It often feels like machine learning experts are running around with a hammer, looking at everything as a potential nail - they have a system that does cool things and is fun to work on, and they go in search of things to use it for. But what if we flip that around and start by working with people...
Although DNA is individual to you—a “fingerprint” of your genetic code—DNA samples don’t always tell a complete story. The DNA samples used in criminal prosecutions are generally of low quality, making them particularly complicated to analyze. They are not very concentrated, not very complete, or are a mixture of multiple individual’s DNA—and often, all of these conditions are true. If a DNA sample is like a fingerprint, analyzing mixed DNA samples in criminal prosecutions can often be like attempting to isolate a single person’s print from a doorknob of a public building afte...