Comment "AI" (Score 1) 54
New space race issues aside, it's been at least a few days since anything has made me facepalm as hard as the phrase "the new rocket will have enhancements from AI".
Comment One rule: (Score 1) 347
Test. Before. Committing. You break the build, you don't go home until it's fixed.
Why Doctors Hate Science 1064
theodp writes "A 2004 study found some 10 million women lacking a cervix were still getting Pap tests. Only problem is, a Pap test screens for cervical cancer — no cervix, no cancer. With this tale, Newsweek's Sharon Begley makes her case for comparative-effectiveness research (CER), which is receiving $1 billion under the stimulus bill for studies to determine which treatments, including drugs, are more medically sound and cost-effective than others for a given ailment. Physicians, Begley says, must stop treatments that are rooted more in local medical culture than in medical science, embrace practices that have been shown scientifically to be superior to others, and ignore critics who paint CER as government control of doctors' decision-making."
Comment Missing the point (Score 1) 232
The processor _can_ make a large difference in mathematical computations, but quite a few of you seem to be assuming that the computational program is going to be written in a high-level language, and begin speaking of threading. What you seem to be forgetting is that for raw number crunching you need to get all of the redundant awkward arrgh-stupid-compiler code out of the way and (are you sitting down?) learn assembly. ...Preferably for an architecture designed with fp-math in mind, unlike intel or amd (superfluous graphical instructions all around). High-level is fine for huge apps with lots of "features," but to find the next largest prime in your lifetime, you have to convert to binary and get the nose to the proverbial grindstone.
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