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A long but interesting read. The parallels with the mystery novels didn't make sense to me at first but then I understood that the evolution of such novels to g
by bthornbury 12y ago
A long but interesting read. The parallels with the mystery novels didn't make sense to me at first but then I understood that the evolution of such novels to greater complexity was being compared to the growing complexity of our understanding of alzheimer's disease.
I prefer to draw a comparison to CS. The Tau vs Amyloid camps are essentially defining two spaces where potential solutions may exist. It seems like the research is doing brute-force depth-first searches across potential solution spaces. Viewed in this manner, and given the lack of results, I wonder if a more comprehensive (breadth-first) approach might be more appropriate. Accounting for all sides of the puzzle rather than focusing on only one.
Undoubtedly more funding will be required in any case.
- jacques_chester 12y agoFunding resembles variations on hill climbing algorithms. It converges on the sharpest gradients in promising outcomes.
- bthornbury 12y agoThis is disappointing as this is almost definitely converging on a local maxima.