Before you get all hot and bothered about fecal transplants, just remember that this has been studied by one group with about 75 patients. It certainly deserves further study and these guys just might be up for the Nobel in Medicine and Physiology if it turns out to be a more general case.
But hold off on those E. coli sandwiches for just a bit longer. They don't call it the bleeding edge for nothing.
You guys are forgetting about Zombies. If the Zombies use the recyclable bags to hold brains and body parts, do you think they're going to wash them when they're done? Of course not.
1. You've got one smart washing machine there. My (admittedly stupid, non digital ancient thingy) has small, medium and large. So the extra couple of bags / towels / whatever we use to avoid paper and disposable stuff literally comes out in the wash.
2. The bags are not 'filled' with dangerous bacteria. They actually make no such claim and no such inference. You'd have to test that. Even if they are, washing in soap and water would be an excellent way to get rid of them. They're just bacteria, not Transformers or politicians.
3. The reusable bags that I've seen are all some sort of plastic fiber. You could probably put them in the hot water / bleach wash without much difficulty. Stack a bunch of them together and you have the making of a ballistic vest. I'm sure there are varied and sundry different types of bags and YMMV, but the Devil Duck ones I bought from Archie McPhee's (always good for a puzzled look or two) are pretty sturdy.
While I would agree that Clinton 'helped', I think that Obama's 'better'. That appears to be for several reasons - there seems to be a groundswell of pro gun opinion in the country. People that don't hunt, don't target shoot, were not particularly gun oriented have, for some reason (and despite every objective bit of evidence to the contrary) decided that they need firearms. There was a recent Christian Science Monitor article on that (too lazy to look it up), but it jibes with what I hear - people wandering into the local gun store looking for things explosive ( a neighbor owns the store).
Unfortunately, THOSE people are going to be really dangerous. Literally half cocked. Buy a gun, shoot it a couple of times and then more or less put it away.
But that, coupled with the recent end-of-the-world angst seen in the popularity of survivalist 'reality' TV, the Zombie epidemic and just general Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt has, I think, increased the desire for people to feel that they have some control over their lives. If they're looking for it by having some cold steel in their warm hands, I think the feeling of security is misplaced, but nobody asks me..
And for the record, I've plenty of firearms, spend quality time out at the range, used to hunt but gave that up after finding out the local deer population runs about the size of a medium dog and the ducks taste like seaweed. No elk and I just can find myself shooting a bear. They're perfectly nice creatures, most of the time, and they taste horrid. But guns, along with cars, Clorox and kitchen implements are dangerous and there are a lot of people out there who should not be entrusted to anything more deadly than a straw.
Well you SHOULD know more about him. And many others. It seems like your view of the world is a bit eurocentric and more than a little rose colored. Read up on current events in the Middle East and in Africa. Or even about the issues surround child abuse in Native American communities or the implosion of the social contract in some American cities or.....
Come on. Humans aren't exactly nice creatures and the world isn't exactly a nice place. We should work on changing that to the extent possible but hyperbole doesn't help.
"Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana, one of the most prescient posts ever.
Yes, the Newton shootings are an embarrassment. If you believe they are the "most embarrassing things on the planet". You sir, need to read just a bit more history.
Yeah, he's basically just Bush plus gay rights minus gun rights. Same economic and military policies, just a few changes in "culture war wedge issues" to give the illusion of choice in the elections.
Minus gun rights - Hell, Obama is the best guns salesman, ever.
Try to find a new gun, anything. They're back ordered. Everywhere. I was trying to find a replacement for a 1960 era 12 gauge shotgun which has a cracked stock and a wonky barrel (too many dings on the rocks). Ended up buying a replacement 'military' stock and a new barrel. Fortunately the receiver looks OK. Even the.22 caliber AR 15 clones in pink and black pattern camo sold after a couple of weeks at the local gun store. Bizarre.
And good thing I'm not trying to buy any ammo for it.
In the University District in Seattle, there is a Sony store about a half block from an Apple establishment. Both in an upscale shopping center. The Sony store is dark and empty. There are TVs everywhere blabbing various videos.
The Apple store is crowded with people playing with all the little Gizmos. People are lined up in front of the Genious bar. They're walking out with product. Say what you will about Apple stuff, their retail stores have really shaken the industry.
I'd start getting a little nervous. I'd start to think that the patron saint of Journalists, St Francis De Sale, or his pagan god equivalent was providing some pretty great headlines right now for a reason.
OK, answer this: The REST of the world, including some really smart folks in some very advanced countries have yet to make the magical tricorder. You'd think SOMEBODY could do it - it doesn't have to be an American invention.
The fact that magical tricorders and snazzy, useful expert decision systems aren't available just might mean that the human race, in aggregate, hasn't got to the point where such devices are feasible.
A computer can have the full picture, assuming there is enough data for it to churn on, and given enough population data to train on, it inevitably will arrive at evidence based diagnosis and treatment options better than any human...for the stuff that's understood.
Where exactly in this magical, cornocopian world, does the computer get the 'full picture'? There is this odd feeling around here that if you feed enough information into 'the computer' it will solve all sorts of difficult problems automagically. Not going to happen. Yes, it's true that data collection needs to be standardized and analyzed. That can give you suggestions where to look. But correlation is not causation and correlation is what these programs do.
That and the fact that diagnosis isn't always the hard part. Ask any neurologist. They can diagnose all sorts of diseases with scary names and scary outcomes. When you ask what you can do about them, they shrug their shoulders. Dr. Omnipotence isn't going to have an answer.
We could start by getting some real information instead of the pair of nearly identical fluff pieces in the TFA. While it's nice they used Markov Decision Chains, as best as I can tell they did a bunch of simulations with pre existing data and came out with 'better' information than the docs who, unfortunately, were dealing with problems in real time.
The lawyers have had this sort of thing for years. It's called a 'retrospectascope'. It tells you what you SHOULD have done after you know what the outcome is.
Very, very helpful. To lawyers anyway, to doctors, not so much.
I'd love to see some real computerized decision analysis that would be useful in real time medicine. I'd love to have "all" of the information about a patient in real time.
I'd also like a Pony and one million dollars. Before I get worried about job security and before everyone goes all Star Trek, lets see if this works in a real clinical setting.
But right now it's more like boating or flying - "use 1/3 of your fuel coming, 1/3 of your fuel going and keep at least 1/3 of fuel in reserve". In the air or on the water, running out of fuel is at least incredibly inconvenient, usually rather dangerous.
So, it's a completely different mind set. This will likely improve over time, but for now you're going to have pretend that you are an intrepid explorer, wandering the wilds of dark America.
So, nobody can read NYT's article (without registering/logging in), but everyone can read Musk's rebuttal. That's going to make the debate fairly one-sided in the public's mind.
You can't figure out how to get into the NYT site without paying?
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What do you guys think?
We think you should spend less time doing drugs and more time paying attention in class.
I think I'd go ahead and give them a little rinse regardless of how I brought them home.
And you call yourself "Rob the Bold".
Pshaw.
Before you get all hot and bothered about fecal transplants, just remember that this has been studied by one group with about 75 patients. It certainly deserves further study and these guys just might be up for the Nobel in Medicine and Physiology if it turns out to be a more general case.
But hold off on those E. coli sandwiches for just a bit longer. They don't call it the bleeding edge for nothing.
You guys are forgetting about Zombies. If the Zombies use the recyclable bags to hold brains and body parts, do you think they're going to wash them when they're done? Of course not.
See, you need to plan ahead.
1. You've got one smart washing machine there. My (admittedly stupid, non digital ancient thingy) has small, medium and large. So the extra couple of bags / towels / whatever we use to avoid paper and disposable stuff literally comes out in the wash.
2. The bags are not 'filled' with dangerous bacteria. They actually make no such claim and no such inference. You'd have to test that. Even if they are, washing in soap and water would be an excellent way to get rid of them. They're just bacteria, not Transformers or politicians.
3. The reusable bags that I've seen are all some sort of plastic fiber. You could probably put them in the hot water / bleach wash without much difficulty. Stack a bunch of them together and you have the making of a ballistic vest. I'm sure there are varied and sundry different types of bags and YMMV, but the Devil Duck ones I bought from Archie McPhee's (always good for a puzzled look or two) are pretty sturdy.
This is a purely technical, fact based discussion forum. Confusing humor is recommended against in the guidelines.
Good grammar, however...
I buy from the head bee guy.
Then you're doing it wrong. The head of the hive is always a queen..
Wait a minute. 'Honey bucket' means something dramatically different where I come from.
So it would be OK to start railing against Anonymous?
While I would agree that Clinton 'helped', I think that Obama's 'better'. That appears to be for several reasons - there seems to be a groundswell of pro gun opinion in the country. People that don't hunt, don't target shoot, were not particularly gun oriented have, for some reason (and despite every objective bit of evidence to the contrary) decided that they need firearms. There was a recent Christian Science Monitor article on that (too lazy to look it up), but it jibes with what I hear - people wandering into the local gun store looking for things explosive ( a neighbor owns the store).
Unfortunately, THOSE people are going to be really dangerous. Literally half cocked. Buy a gun, shoot it a couple of times and then more or less put it away.
But that, coupled with the recent end-of-the-world angst seen in the popularity of survivalist 'reality' TV, the Zombie epidemic and just general Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt has, I think, increased the desire for people to feel that they have some control over their lives. If they're looking for it by having some cold steel in their warm hands, I think the feeling of security is misplaced, but nobody asks me..
And for the record, I've plenty of firearms, spend quality time out at the range, used to hunt but gave that up after finding out the local deer population runs about the size of a medium dog and the ducks taste like seaweed. No elk and I just can find myself shooting a bear. They're perfectly nice creatures, most of the time, and they taste horrid. But guns, along with cars, Clorox and kitchen implements are dangerous and there are a lot of people out there who should not be entrusted to anything more deadly than a straw.
Well you SHOULD know more about him. And many others. It seems like your view of the world is a bit eurocentric and more than a little rose colored. Read up on current events in the Middle East and in Africa. Or even about the issues surround child abuse in Native American communities or the implosion of the social contract in some American cities or .....
Come on. Humans aren't exactly nice creatures and the world isn't exactly a nice place. We should work on changing that to the extent possible but hyperbole doesn't help.
"Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana, one of the most prescient posts ever.
Yes, the Newton shootings are an embarrassment. If you believe they are the "most embarrassing things on the planet". You sir, need to read just a bit more history.
They're not even close.
Yeah, he's basically just Bush plus gay rights minus gun rights. Same economic and military policies, just a few changes in "culture war wedge issues" to give the illusion of choice in the elections.
Minus gun rights - Hell, Obama is the best guns salesman, ever.
Try to find a new gun, anything. They're back ordered. Everywhere. I was trying to find a replacement for a 1960 era 12 gauge shotgun which has a cracked stock and a wonky barrel (too many dings on the rocks). Ended up buying a replacement 'military' stock and a new barrel. Fortunately the receiver looks OK. Even the .22 caliber AR 15 clones in pink and black pattern camo sold after a couple of weeks at the local gun store. Bizarre.
And good thing I'm not trying to buy any ammo for it.
In the University District in Seattle, there is a Sony store about a half block from an Apple establishment. Both in an upscale shopping center. The Sony store is dark and empty. There are TVs everywhere blabbing various videos.
The Apple store is crowded with people playing with all the little Gizmos. People are lined up in front of the Genious bar. They're walking out with product. Say what you will about Apple stuff, their retail stores have really shaken the industry.
I'd start getting a little nervous. I'd start to think that the patron saint of Journalists, St Francis De Sale, or his pagan god equivalent was providing some pretty great headlines right now for a reason.
Like this reason?
Basically you want a GoPro with the wireless controller. Don't know about the Linux stuff, but it puts out a pretty standard codec.
Would not be as 'hands off' as the purpose built dash cams but you would get the better image quality.
My my. Just a tad paranoid, are we now?
So, what do you think the bright light was?
OK, answer this: The REST of the world, including some really smart folks in some very advanced countries have yet to make the magical tricorder. You'd think SOMEBODY could do it - it doesn't have to be an American invention.
The fact that magical tricorders and snazzy, useful expert decision systems aren't available just might mean that the human race, in aggregate, hasn't got to the point where such devices are feasible.
A computer can have the full picture, assuming there is enough data for it to churn on, and given enough population data to train on, it inevitably will arrive at evidence based diagnosis and treatment options better than any human...for the stuff that's understood.
Where exactly in this magical, cornocopian world, does the computer get the 'full picture'? There is this odd feeling around here that if you feed enough information into 'the computer' it will solve all sorts of difficult problems automagically. Not going to happen. Yes, it's true that data collection needs to be standardized and analyzed. That can give you suggestions where to look. But correlation is not causation and correlation is what these programs do.
That and the fact that diagnosis isn't always the hard part. Ask any neurologist. They can diagnose all sorts of diseases with scary names and scary outcomes. When you ask what you can do about them, they shrug their shoulders. Dr. Omnipotence isn't going to have an answer.
Probably. It's the other 10% that's the bitch.
We could start by getting some real information instead of the pair of nearly identical fluff pieces in the TFA. While it's nice they used Markov Decision Chains, as best as I can tell they did a bunch of simulations with pre existing data and came out with 'better' information than the docs who, unfortunately, were dealing with problems in real time.
The lawyers have had this sort of thing for years. It's called a 'retrospectascope'. It tells you what you SHOULD have done after you know what the outcome is.
Very, very helpful. To lawyers anyway, to doctors, not so much.
I'd love to see some real computerized decision analysis that would be useful in real time medicine. I'd love to have "all" of the information about a patient in real time.
I'd also like a Pony and one million dollars. Before I get worried about job security and before everyone goes all Star Trek, lets see if this works in a real clinical setting.
You guys must have much better drugs that we do...
But right now it's more like boating or flying - "use 1/3 of your fuel coming, 1/3 of your fuel going and keep at least 1/3 of fuel in reserve". In the air or on the water, running out of fuel is at least incredibly inconvenient, usually rather dangerous.
So, it's a completely different mind set. This will likely improve over time, but for now you're going to have pretend that you are an intrepid explorer, wandering the wilds of dark America.
Why does he need to charge the battery? Just bring an exercise bike and a pair of jumper cables with you wherever you go!
I'm missing something. Care to draw a circuit diagram?
So, nobody can read NYT's article (without registering/logging in), but everyone can read Musk's rebuttal. That's going to make the debate fairly one-sided in the public's mind.
You can't figure out how to get into the NYT site without paying?
Turn in your geek card.
Oh. Wait.