"Perhaps one day the effect of a drug in a patient or the release of software into a market will be fully simulated through computation."
In the 60's I was a programmer/statistician with no medical background for a large group of physicians engaged in clinical trials of cancer chemotherapy. I created a simulation model of the human blood system that was able to predict the future toxic effects of the chemotherapy after only a few doses.
The doctors rejected it because I was not a doctor. My theory was confirmed 15 years later by others. My boss (the chief of surgery) had suggested I should go to Med School. The chief of Hematology liked my work, but only because it explained the findings in his own paper published in the Annals of Hematology 15 years before. At that time a physics student who had been blasted with cobalt 60 pellets had been brought to the hospital and as a young intern he had the good sense to run every test possible for 90 days straight. My model predicted exactly what he had seen. Even when the radiation source was removed the blood values continued to oscillate up and down on their own as the body responded according to my model.
The chemotherapists were erring in not accounting for the body's built-in response mechanisms, and they didn't want to hear it from me.
You have to read the Conference Paper to see that it is only when one of the user's transactions actually reaches the bank (Peppercoin) that the bank figures out from the jump in SERIAL NUMBERS how many peppercoins the user has used. At THAT point his credit card is charged for ACTUAL USE.
Only 1 in a thousand of the peppercoins being used actually returns to the bank, thus lowering overall transaction fees to the merchants. Hence cheaper than PayPal type systems that must process every charge. User sees no statistical risk. Vendor's volumn is so large he sees a very small margin of error.
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/MicaliRivest-M ic ropaymentsRevisited.ppt
If you follow their research in "labs", they had a tool where if you listed several items that formed a "set", it would complete the list.
This is obviously how they figure out that several stories are actually about the same thing.
Neat!
Isn't the need for privacy the very opposite of the drive to network? These are opposing forces. If you want to remain isolated and distinct and identifiable in a sea that flourishes by removing such distinctions, then you have to work at it "outside the box".
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In the 60's I was a programmer/statistician with no medical background for a large group of physicians engaged in clinical trials of cancer chemotherapy. I created a simulation model of the human blood system that was able to predict the future toxic effects of the chemotherapy after only a few doses.
The doctors rejected it because I was not a doctor. My theory was confirmed 15 years later by others. My boss (the chief of surgery) had suggested I should go to Med School. The chief of Hematology liked my work, but only because it explained the findings in his own paper published in the Annals of Hematology 15 years before. At that time a physics student who had been blasted with cobalt 60 pellets had been brought to the hospital and as a young intern he had the good sense to run every test possible for 90 days straight. My model predicted exactly what he had seen. Even when the radiation source was removed the blood values continued to oscillate up and down on their own as the body responded according to my model.
The chemotherapists were erring in not accounting for the body's built-in response mechanisms, and they didn't want to hear it from me.
You have to read the Conference Paper to see that it is only when one of the user's transactions actually reaches the bank (Peppercoin) that the bank figures out from the jump in SERIAL NUMBERS how many peppercoins the user has used. At THAT point his credit card is charged for ACTUAL USE.
M ic ropaymentsRevisited.ppt
Only 1 in a thousand of the peppercoins being used actually returns to the bank, thus lowering overall transaction fees to the merchants. Hence cheaper than PayPal type systems that must process every charge. User sees no statistical risk. Vendor's volumn is so large he sees a very small margin of error.
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/MicaliRivest-
Sorry I can't prevent space in that URL
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/MicaliRivest-Mic ropaymentsRevisited.ppt
If you follow their research in "labs", they had a tool where if you listed several items that formed a "set", it would complete the list. This is obviously how they figure out that several stories are actually about the same thing. Neat!
Suddenly all of his e-mail was publicly readable at some site that simply lifts it off the internet mail servers?
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Isn't the need for privacy the very opposite of the drive to network? These are opposing forces. If you want to remain isolated and distinct and identifiable in a sea that flourishes by removing such distinctions, then you have to work at it "outside the box".