TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Then American sorghum farmers can sell their crops to American ranchers and we can all have cheaper prime rib for the first time in a long while. It’s quite simple. Foreign aid is a needless grift that subsidizes rich people both at home and abroad at the expense of poor taxpayers at home. Oh, and it’s not and nev…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
an oppressed class in need of coddling and reparation

What coddling? What reparations?

Robert,

I agree, accidents happen, but let’s chew on this latest pronouncement for a while.

Trump announces “Anti-Christian Bias Task Force” during the National Prayer Breakfast to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” within the federal government and end the “religious persecution” of Christians in the United States.

Now here is where all Ame…[Read more]

It seems we have stumbled on drugs that have been repurposed. By accident as opposed to the targeting of drugs that address other medical issues that AI can achieve. And i assume it is the same with the advantages AI has in radiology as a result of the aforementioned speedy pattern recognition. And apparently there is a new AI assisted medical…[Read more]

Jake,

I don’t know if machine learning was involved, but Doctors have discovered that Metformin not only reduces blood sugar, but also has anti-carcinogenic properties and may even be anti-aging.

Anything that can identify multiple genetic interactions or multiple uses for a drug and do it at computing speed would do more to make drugs better…[Read more]

@jakelafort…… But the point is as much as we may dread the unknowns associated with AI there is also reason for optimism. 

Speedy pattern recognition is a trait of high intelligence. It is seeing the patterns and associations in large data sets that make A.I. what it is. Improved underlying algorithms  and more processing power will make it e…[Read more]

Robert,

Then American sorghum farmers can sell their crops to American ranchers and we can all have cheaper prime rib for the first time in a long while.

It’s quite simple. Foreign aid is a needless grift that subsidizes rich people both at home and abroad at the expense of poor taxpayers at home. Oh, and it’s not and never has been a…[Read more]

Agreed Reg.

Imagine hospice and despair followed by resignation. And then…!

I posted an article about a start up in Israel. The founder has a kid with autism and there were so few medications developed in last few decades he took matters into own hands in what sounds like sci fi.

Ultimately urine cells are converted into neurons on a chip…[Read more]

I now have “a mind-bending virus” if I don’t agree that Israel should “defend” itself by a program of eradicating and ethnically cleansing Palestinians(?).

I don’t disagree that Israel is entitled to respond to Hamas, but their response seems only vaguely aimed at just Hamas.

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That A.I. medical story is going to be the first of many. This kind of drug repurposing will be a game-changer for rare diseases with limited treatment options.