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492 Ah-ha momentparticipate in the promotion of increased scientific literacy in our educationalestablishment at all levels.41.4 ConclusionIn response to the invitation from COPSS to contribute to their 50th AnniversaryCelebration, I have taken a tour of some exciting moments in my career,involving RKHS and regularization methods, pairwise dissimilarities and distances,and lasso models, dispensing un-asked for advice to new researchersalong the way. I have made a few remarks concerning the richness of modelsbased on RKHS, as well as models involving sparsity-inducing penaltieswith some remarks involving the Nature-Nurture Debate and PersonalizedMedicine. I end this contribution with thanks to my many coauthors — identifiedhere or not — and to my terrific present and former students. Advice:Treasure your collaborators! Have great students!AcknowledgementsThis work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation GrantDMS 0906818 and the National Institutes of Health Grant R01 EY09946. Theauthor thanks Didier Girard for pointing out a mistake and also noting thathis 1987 report entitled “Un algorithme simple et rapide pour la validationcroisée généralisée sur des problèmes de grande taille” (Rapport RR669–M,Informatique et mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble, France) predates thereference Girard (1989) given here.ReferencesAronszajn, N. (1950). Theory of reproducing kernels. Transactions of theAmerican Mathematical Society, 68:337–404.Chen, S., Donoho, D., and Saunders, M. (1998). Atomic decomposition bybasis pursuit. SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 20:33–61.Corrado Bravo, H., Leeb, K.E., Klein, B.E., Klein, R., Iyengar, S.K., andWahba, G. (2009). Examining the relative influence of familial, geneticand environmental covariate information in flexible risk models. Pro-