That's my question exactly. TFA doesn't really answer it clearly. The only similarity mentioned is that the giant virus has a regular geometric shape, presumably due to capsid proteins as in other virus. In addition, other commenters, are saying that they are parasitic they just require much less of the host machinery to reproduce than a classical virus.
Also, the article mentions that there is some debates as to whether these giant viruses represent an new kingdom of life, which if it were true would imply that they aren't viruses, but members of some new classification.
Truecrypt has/had something like that. It allows you to have a secondary, hidden partition in the "free" space of the disk image. Alas, it appears to be dying without a good replacement that I know of.
And will the system consider the patients age/cost to treat/insurance level/likelihood of patient paying future insurance premiums to make up for expenses?
It will if you program it to. Things like this are tools. As a relatively young doctor (resident) I welcome things like this. Every doctor I know uses reference material, some are printed on dead trees and some are electronic. Today, there's not much difference. But the point it is that there's too much medical knowledge for one person to keep it all in their head at one time.
If something like this were to come to market it wouldn't be replacing doctors, it would be augmenting them. Machines do what we tell them to, always have and (hopefully) always will. False rivalries like this completely miss the point. I would love to have a computer algorithm that could correctly diagnose 99% of the time even if it were flagrently wrong the other 1%. That's why humans are in the loop.
My guess is that custom proteins are harder to synthesize on demand. Generally if you want a custom protein you synthesize the DNA coding it, then insert it into a cell and have it produce the protein. Plus, DNA can be duplicated in vitro through conventional PCR where it's not really viable to transcribe proteins outside of a living cell.
Also, until you can claim to solve the halting problem in real life (as opposed to a "theoretical device"), don't go around claiming that the brain is turing-complete. It isn't, and cannot be - not in this universe, anyway.
Of course the brain is turing complete. You can prove it the same way you prove any other machine is turing complete: it has the ability to simulate a turing machine. I can simulate a tape driven turing machine pretty damn easily with a sheet of paper and a pencil.
I think you're confused as to what "turing-complete" means. Solving the halting problem is not a requirement. In fact, you can prove that a turing machine cannot solve the halting problem. So the brain's inability to do so doesn't have any bearing on whether it's turing complete.
Honestly I could care less what whether our next president is white or black. I tend to be more concerned with things that will actually effect the future of myself and the country. What does concern me is people voting for a president based on the color of his skin. They have word for that, it's called racism.
and 2*H2+O2 -> 2*H2O happens to be as good as you can get in terms of energy/mass ratio.
Not true, as has already been mentioned multiple times. Nuclear power would be the an obvious choice of energy source for these types of engines. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but direct mass to energy conversion can definitely beat burning hydrogen. E=Mc^2 is your friend.
current solar cells only have an energy conversion efficiency of about 6 to 30% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell) which means that at least 70% of the energy is going somewhere else. Since most solar cells are black or nearly so alot of that is going to be turned into heat.
On the other hand most houses are already cover in pretty dark material (anyone seen a shingle recently?) so it wouldn't make much difference, unless your covering much larger areas than the building's roof to power it.
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That's my question exactly. TFA doesn't really answer it clearly. The only similarity mentioned is that the giant virus has a regular geometric shape, presumably due to capsid proteins as in other virus. In addition, other commenters, are saying that they are parasitic they just require much less of the host machinery to reproduce than a classical virus.
Also, the article mentions that there is some debates as to whether these giant viruses represent an new kingdom of life, which if it were true would imply that they aren't viruses, but members of some new classification.
They probably shouldn't anyway
Truecrypt has/had something like that. It allows you to have a secondary, hidden partition in the "free" space of the disk image. Alas, it appears to be dying without a good replacement that I know of.
And will the system consider the patients age/cost to treat/insurance level/likelihood of patient paying future insurance premiums to make up for expenses?
It will if you program it to. Things like this are tools. As a relatively young doctor (resident) I welcome things like this. Every doctor I know uses reference material, some are printed on dead trees and some are electronic. Today, there's not much difference. But the point it is that there's too much medical knowledge for one person to keep it all in their head at one time. If something like this were to come to market it wouldn't be replacing doctors, it would be augmenting them. Machines do what we tell them to, always have and (hopefully) always will. False rivalries like this completely miss the point. I would love to have a computer algorithm that could correctly diagnose 99% of the time even if it were flagrently wrong the other 1%. That's why humans are in the loop.
My guess is that custom proteins are harder to synthesize on demand. Generally if you want a custom protein you synthesize the DNA coding it, then insert it into a cell and have it produce the protein. Plus, DNA can be duplicated in vitro through conventional PCR where it's not really viable to transcribe proteins outside of a living cell.
I'm sure there are lots of hot naked chicks. Are you into rishathra?
Alas, there is no 1+ Ringworld Reference
... that's better
I'm sure there are lots of hot naked chicks. Are you into rishathra?
Alas, there is now 1+ Ringworld Reference
Also, until you can claim to solve the halting problem in real life (as opposed to a "theoretical device"), don't go around claiming that the brain is turing-complete. It isn't, and cannot be - not in this universe, anyway.
Of course the brain is turing complete. You can prove it the same way you prove any other machine is turing complete: it has the ability to simulate a turing machine. I can simulate a tape driven turing machine pretty damn easily with a sheet of paper and a pencil. I think you're confused as to what "turing-complete" means. Solving the halting problem is not a requirement. In fact, you can prove that a turing machine cannot solve the halting problem. So the brain's inability to do so doesn't have any bearing on whether it's turing complete.
Honestly I could care less what whether our next president is white or black. I tend to be more concerned with things that will actually effect the future of myself and the country. What does concern me is people voting for a president based on the color of his skin. They have word for that, it's called racism.
and 2*H2+O2 -> 2*H2O happens to be as good as you can get in terms of energy/mass ratio.
Not true, as has already been mentioned multiple times. Nuclear power would be the an obvious choice of energy source for these types of engines. I'm too lazy to look up the numbers, but direct mass to energy conversion can definitely beat burning hydrogen. E=Mc^2 is your friend.
current solar cells only have an energy conversion efficiency of about 6 to 30% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell) which means that at least 70% of the energy is going somewhere else. Since most solar cells are black or nearly so alot of that is going to be turned into heat.
On the other hand most houses are already cover in pretty dark material (anyone seen a shingle recently?) so it wouldn't make much difference, unless your covering much larger areas than the building's roof to power it.
You're obviously new here
while i can't read minds or anything, i guessing what he was trying to say is that Tb = terabit = 1024 gigabits = 128 gigabytes