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Although there tends to be great molecular diversity in each person's cancer, there are still avenues of genetic commonality that can be pursued. For example, the tumor suppression gene TP53 is mutated in a high percentage of cancer c
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True, but cases of fever harming the body are extremely rare. The fact that mammals, reptiles, and even insects, increase their body temperature to fight pathogens suggests that fever confers significant survival advantage and that our null
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I place vaccines in the "absolutely necessary" category where the known benefit far outweighs the known risk. In the case of aspirin and Tylenol, I think they are most often used in unnecessary ways such as lowering fever and add
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Medications are a particular problem. It took decades of massive use for us to even realize that some of our most common over-the-counter drugs were being used in dangerous ways (e.g. aspirin can cause Reye's syndrome in children, Tyl
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I suggest no falsifiable criteria at this time and I likely never will. I merely point out intellectually interesting plausibility. If you restrict all of your consideration to only those things you already know how to prove or disprove,
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I think it is quite plausible that feathers originally developed for thermoregulation. If they started as simple filaments that could be raised and lowered to adjust radiative surface area, it seems that thermoregulatory advantages alone c
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There is a significant physiological advantage to black text on white background. A bright background causes your pupil to constrict, which reduces the active area of your lens focusing light onto your fovea. Using less lens area reduces
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That was my first thought as well. In reality, this just allows a bit of insight into the black box of AutoML. It won't provide much insight into the ML black boxes that AutoML searches over. What is really needed are effective ML a
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Summary: Describes an interactive tool for monitoring and visualizing an automated search for which of several machine learning algorithms might perform best on a particular dataset.
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A business model based on receiving user payment, a stated mission of protecting privacy, and a history of resisting government attempts to compromise privacy, all provide some reason to trust Apple more than most other companies. A busine
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Strenuous activity at altitudes above 8,000 m often leads to fatal brain swelling, even among those who are physically fit and have spent time acclimating. There have been several studies indicating that mountain climbing leads to brain dam
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There is a simple approach that I find universally effective. First off, you need a goal. Aimless smalltalk is unlikely to be satisfying. Your objective should be to go beyond smalltalk and have a stimulating conversation. Stimulating c
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I would say your criticism is way off base. I've developed and fielded ML-based medical devices and this looks like a reasonable study that suggests they have a system worthy of further testing. There's nothing wrong with using
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There is an accelerating level of evidence that fasting results in decreased rates of disease and increased longevity. In particular, it appears that having the body in a fat-burning mode during sleep facilitates more effective cellular ma
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With the rapid pace of technological advancement, I think adult education will become increasingly important as labor needs evolve, although online courses are probably a better route for adults. Seems like there would be significant logis
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Yes, but the Solarflare ApplicationOnload Engine has several issues (e.g. limited Altera FPGA, inflexible architecture, logic on a separate ASIC that must communicate with the FPGA, and still uses a host CPU for the networking stack), which
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It is certainly a big deal for HFT. Pulling the Solarflare networking technology into a Xilinx FPGA should cut a significant amount of latency for FPGA-based trading systems. Having a Solarflare IP core option should benefit other high-perf
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Encouraging dissent is a small piece of what is needed. Developers must certainly consider the moral and ethical consequences of their work, but most situations are not going to be black and white, and no matter how diabolical a project mi
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Yes, it seems most people are unwilling to give up a concrete benefit to avoid a hypothetical threat. I think the privacy threat will only seem concrete when a higher percentage of people are expressing concern over it. I have not found a
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I continue to be amazed by the level of nearly complete indifference that the general populace still has towards privacy. I don't think the politicians are going to do much of consequence until their constituents think it is important
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There's actually still a couple hundred or so traders in the pits at the CME in Chicago. Certainly nothing like what it used to be, though.
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There is an enormous number of portfolios that can be constructed to be highly profitable if global warming becomes more widely accepted. There is no need for an actual apocalypse to occur. There just needs to be an increasing awareness t
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The title is misleading as the article doesn't really describe hedging. It gives examples of various individuals and groups who are placing increasing value on technologies and resources related to global warming. Their investments n
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A similar switch happened in 1970, when the Prime Minister of Myanmar suddenly and mysteriously decided that the country would switch to driving on the right-hand side of the road. The crazy thing is that the vast majority of vehicles toda
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Pickled vegetables and salt-cured fish appear to be the most significant culprits in Asia. Also, both high levels of regular table salt (sodium chloride) as well as high levels of nitrate have each been linked to stomach cancer, so it does
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There currently is no good candidate for a imaging modality that can be used for a general screening program to find the top 15 to 20 cancers and I am unaware of anything on the near horizon. Such a scan would have to examine the neck thru
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As we are getting a bit off-topic, I temporarily placed an email address in my profile, which you can use to contact me for further discussion.
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Unfortunately, there are still many cancers detected far too late for effective treatment. It sounds like you were indeed fortunate to have a less aggressive form. AI for cancer screening generally falls under the category of "Comput
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There are huge barriers to getting a healthcare AI product to market in the United States. First off, data is generally extremely difficult and expensive to gather due to the need to protect patient info according to the Health Insurance P
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To me, the main mistake was the series of commercials giving the strong impression that IBM already had this incredible Artificial General Intelligence that was indistinguishable from a highly intelligent human and was solving a myriad of d

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