The rise of Alzheimer's disease in the late 20th century, at least in the U.S., coincided with the highest standard of living ever achieved by humans.
It also coincides with an improved definition of Alzheimer's, and more effective detection and diagnosis.
Perhaps taxi and ambulance drivers just get killed on the job in the early stages of the disease, causing the death to be attributed to anther cause?
Or perhaps the study has controlled for that, as it clearly explains in the freely accessible text.
Or perhaps the way they controlled for that was inadequate. If even ONE PERCENT of the deaths attributed to other causes was actually due to Alzheimers, that would swamp the observed effect. Can they say for sure that their method of controlling for other effects is better than 99% effective?
It's a good question.
Not enough information here. Alzheimer's disease starts slow, and progresses incrementally for years. My first hypothesis would be that taxi drivers in the early stages of Alzheimer's become unable to drive effectively, and hence leave the profession years before they are diagnosed with Alzheimer's; hence their death certificates don't list "taxi driver" as their occupation.
But the observation that taxi drivers die an average of ten years earlier than other occupations also makes the explanation that their protocol for removal of confounding effects may be inadequate. That's a huge effect to compensate out.
I'm sorry, when I read your earlier post I was so focused on your ignorance of millimeter waves that I somehow completely overlooked the part showing that you are a conspiracy nut who believes thinks like " 90% of hijackings, including Lockerbee and 9/11, were government intelligent funded psychological operations".
I apologize for wasting both of our time by interacting with you. Please carry on (preferably somewhere else).
Interesting comment, but in fact, millimeter wave machines are well understood to be harmless (millimeter waves are non-ionizing), and while they may have false positives, the response to a positive in airport screening is not to arrest people, but to do search to see what caused the positive. Eliminating mm scanners would mean more, not less, intrusive scanning.
Did politicians get the message that people don't want these yet?
It's slightly more complicated than that. The problem is, "the people" are afraid of crime, and what they want is the police to have the tools to track down and arrest criminals. So the message the politicians get is a contradictory one: "give the police the tools to make our neighborhoods safe from crime! Whatever it takes!" and simultaneously "we don't want government surveillance!"
If you don't like it, you will need to convince people that civil liberties are more important than stopping crime.
Apple doesn't even do any AI, so I wonder what these AI companies are supposedly poaching.
AI isn't going to make a profit, so they are probably looking for something that will.
Since the scanning technique is to slice off the binding, remove the cover, and then auto-feed the pages through a high-speed scanner, it destroys the books anyway, regardless of the "stupid law".
Another win for Betteridge's law of headlines.
If the question were answered, the headline wouldn't have been in the form of a question.
The information buried way down in the article is that the atmospheric gas detected is helium.
Really not as exciting a discovery as the article makes it seem. Nobody doubts that planets can have helium in their atmosphere. In our solar system this is characteristic of the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn) and the ice giants (Uranus, Neptune).
I admit that before now I hadn't even heard of this one.
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Their website: https://zoox.com/
News article: https://www.usatoday.com/story...
The article is missing key context information.
When Google says it's "shutting down" the project, does that mean that the AlphaFold software will cease to exist? Or does it mean, the project has been completed, and therefore the development team can be reassigned to new projects, but the AI prediction model can still be used to predict protein folding?
...The black hole would probably be hardest to see, since it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk. (If it did, we'd probably have seen it already.)
Why do you say it wouldn't be expected to have an accretion disk? The fact that we haven't seen it already isn't evidence.
"We don't know whether there are any kangaroos in my house. The fact that we haven't seen any means that they are invisible. How do we know that they are invisible? If they were visible, we would have seen them already."
The galactic plane is a busy place, so close passes with other star systems will be more common.
Not close enough to notice. Stars are very far apart. No, strike that. Very very far apart.
It may not have gained much traction, but that's because there's no real way to test it.
The way to test it is to find Nemesis.
There were multiple searches looking for Nemesis, all of which failed to turn up anything. There's a bit of a discussion in the book "Collisions", by Alec Nevala-Lee
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You can do this in a number of ways. IBM chose to do all of them. Why do you find that funny? -- D. Taylor, Computer Science 350
