Stress experiences in neighborhood and social environments (SENSE): a pilot study to integrate the quantified self with citizen science to improve the built environment and health

Author(s): Chrisinger, Benjamin W.King, Abby C. Abstract: Background Identifying elements of one’s environment—observable and unobservable—that contribute to chronic stress including the perception of comfort and discomfort associated with different settings, presents...

Backdrop: Stochastic Backpropagation

Author(s): Golkar, SiavashCranmer, Kyle Abstract: We introduce backdrop, a flexible and simple-to-implement method, intuitively described as dropout acting only along the backpropagation pipeline. Backdrop is implemented via one or more masking layers which are...