Hardly. Pure research has traditionally been funded by government because the private sector is risk adverse. But funding has been cut back and back until almost incredibly bland and tame ideas are tested. Cutting edge research is not being done in the United States which leads to a brain drain. People are giving up or leaving for other countries that will fund the research. This puts the United States at a competitive disadvantage.
The problem is the Bayesian analysis is far from conclusive. What it does point to is that the clinical trial needs a larger sample size. Sample sizes that are too small are useless.
Jesus christ people read the article not the title. Hell even the abstract pointed out the problem: SMALL DATA SETS! There was nothing wrong with the original reporting. Based on the sample size that was the proper conclusion to reach. I would not jump to the conclusion that the Bayesian analysis overturned the original conclusion. What the Bayesian analysis points to is that a new trial should be conducted with a larger sample size.
FYI there's already a blind system. Again - read people.
LMOL yeah they've been saying that for decades and yet COBOL is still here. I don't think you understand how much it would cost to re-write those COBOL application. You are not converting code. There's no magical button that will transform COBOL into the flavor of the month language. You are starting from scratch and oh you need to bring in the existing data. GOOD LUCK!
It's far more lucrative to learn COBOL than the latest flavor of the month where it's easier to outsource you to some guy in India. It's far easier to fill positions that use popular languages. It also means your pay will be lower because of the competition.
It comes down to what you want to do and what industry you want to work. COBOL could be a very good learning experience even if you don't plan on being their for the rest of your career.
Agreed. Many companies got dragged into the mainframes are bad client/servers good debate only to find out that servers did not have the up-time that mainframes have. Just because it's shiny and new does not make it better. That's the sorry state of IT. IT does not want to support they just want to replace.
LMOL umm no it can't be recycled for other use. Until the oil companies tell us what it's in the fracking chemicals - which that won't do - it's hard to know the level of contamination. But thanks for playing it's "really not that bad" game....pin head.
Incorrect. Appeal to authority means accepting what a person says on a topic as probably correct because they are an authority. The difference is scientists are using research to back up their claims. They are not stating claims as fact simply because they are experts.
"there's psych medicines that you can test with science and need science to produce, but the results in an individual can vary.. free will and all that."
Really? So addiction is a matter of free will? Might want to tell that to all the heroine addicts.
Please stop. You think you know what you are talking about but you really don't. If you understand anything about experimental design and statistical analysis you would not have written the second sentence. Correlation or causation depends on the design of the study. When it comes to surveys, those would be correlational studies. When it comes to studying animal behavior, those would be causation.
Any study's results are only generalizable to the population from which the sample was derived. Thus if the sample was taken from a population of Ohio State university students, those results are only generalizable to that population. Your complaint is with the media and how they report the results no the study's principle investigator.
Exactly. A service sitting on top of IP is fine - not great but fine - but to destroy a technology that as been revolutionary seems a tad bit misguided.
No terrible idea at the concept stage: "..content-based networking is an alternative approach to the architecture of computer networks. Its founding principle is that a communication network should allow a user to focus on the data he or she needs, rather than having to reference a specific, physical location where that data is to be retrieved from."
Solution in search of a problem. Today all the end user focuses on *IS* the data they want. The location doesn't enter into it. When a user searches the internet all they are presented are results of a query. The location isn't part of the search and other than the hyperlink indicating where the data is located, isn't part the of result. So again, the user is not concerned with the location.
LOL uh no zippy, if broadband was classified as common carriage FCC would be able to regulate and we'd have competition. As such it is not. I'm not sure WTF you mean by WiFi. WiFi is nothing more than an access point. It's not the pipe that connects you to the internet, like fiber or cable. So where WiFi is available somebody is using an ISP to connect you to the internet either via cable or fiber. If you are talking cellular like 4G, that's not wifi, and vastly worse.
Nice bullshit moron. Did you read it, it consists of Charter, Verizon, Comcast and various cellular services which or owned by telecoms. For example Clearwire which is owned by Sprint. FYI cellular is not an internet service provider.
In season 3 episode 1, where Sheldon was being mocked for saying he confirmed string theory, Sheldon gave a speech about Einstein and Einstein's greatest blunder, the cosmological constant. Barry Kripke responded that research into dark matter vindicated the cosmological constant and therefore it was not a blunder.
The problem - the assertion by Barry Kripke was wrong. Einstein's blunder was he invented the cosmological constant to show a static universe. At the time it was not known if the universe was moving or not. Einstein's early equations showed a moving universe. That bothered him, so he invented the cosmological constant to show a static universe. Later Einstein met astronomer Irwin Hubble who was able to show Einstein the universe was moving and not static. The cosmological constant was a blunder in that it was used to show a static universe. The fact that the cosmological constant was used elsewhere successfully is irrelevant; that did not change the mistake Einstein made.
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Really? 2000 is the high point of NIH funding? Look at defense spending then come back and talk.
Somebody failed high school English.
Hardly. Pure research has traditionally been funded by government because the private sector is risk adverse. But funding has been cut back and back until almost incredibly bland and tame ideas are tested. Cutting edge research is not being done in the United States which leads to a brain drain. People are giving up or leaving for other countries that will fund the research. This puts the United States at a competitive disadvantage.
Wow, epic fail zippy.
Thank the Republicans who hate science and don't want to fund pure research but would rather corporations subsidies....nice how that works.
The problem is the Bayesian analysis is far from conclusive. What it does point to is that the clinical trial needs a larger sample size. Sample sizes that are too small are useless.
Jesus christ people read the article not the title. Hell even the abstract pointed out the problem: SMALL DATA SETS! There was nothing wrong with the original reporting. Based on the sample size that was the proper conclusion to reach. I would not jump to the conclusion that the Bayesian analysis overturned the original conclusion. What the Bayesian analysis points to is that a new trial should be conducted with a larger sample size.
FYI there's already a blind system. Again - read people.
LMOL yeah they've been saying that for decades and yet COBOL is still here. I don't think you understand how much it would cost to re-write those COBOL application. You are not converting code. There's no magical button that will transform COBOL into the flavor of the month language. You are starting from scratch and oh you need to bring in the existing data. GOOD LUCK!
It's far more lucrative to learn COBOL than the latest flavor of the month where it's easier to outsource you to some guy in India. It's far easier to fill positions that use popular languages. It also means your pay will be lower because of the competition.
It comes down to what you want to do and what industry you want to work. COBOL could be a very good learning experience even if you don't plan on being their for the rest of your career.
Agreed. Many companies got dragged into the mainframes are bad client/servers good debate only to find out that servers did not have the up-time that mainframes have. Just because it's shiny and new does not make it better. That's the sorry state of IT. IT does not want to support they just want to replace.
WTF? Water is a finite resource. Period. Reducing the amount of usable water by contaminating it further reduces the resource. F'ing troll....
LMOL umm no it can't be recycled for other use. Until the oil companies tell us what it's in the fracking chemicals - which that won't do - it's hard to know the level of contamination. But thanks for playing it's "really not that bad" game....pin head.
No environmental disasters...really? So earthquakes and poor water quality do not count as environmental disasters...nice...
Wait....regulating the oil industry? When has that ever happened....*cough* Deepwater Horizon *cough*
Like the earthquakes and poor air and drinking water quality. Quite schilling for the oil industry....
Incorrect. Appeal to authority means accepting what a person says on a topic as probably correct because they are an authority. The difference is scientists are using research to back up their claims. They are not stating claims as fact simply because they are experts.
"there's psych medicines that you can test with science and need science to produce, but the results in an individual can vary.. free will and all that."
Really? So addiction is a matter of free will? Might want to tell that to all the heroine addicts.
Somebody is irretrievably stupid.
Not even close.
Please stop. You think you know what you are talking about but you really don't. If you understand anything about experimental design and statistical analysis you would not have written the second sentence. Correlation or causation depends on the design of the study. When it comes to surveys, those would be correlational studies. When it comes to studying animal behavior, those would be causation.
Any study's results are only generalizable to the population from which the sample was derived. Thus if the sample was taken from a population of Ohio State university students, those results are only generalizable to that population. Your complaint is with the media and how they report the results no the study's principle investigator.
Exactly. A service sitting on top of IP is fine - not great but fine - but to destroy a technology that as been revolutionary seems a tad bit misguided.
Spoken by someone who doesn't know anything about content-centric networking.
No terrible idea at the concept stage: "..content-based networking is an alternative approach to the architecture of computer networks. Its founding principle is that a communication network should allow a user to focus on the data he or she needs, rather than having to reference a specific, physical location where that data is to be retrieved from."
Solution in search of a problem. Today all the end user focuses on *IS* the data they want. The location doesn't enter into it. When a user searches the internet all they are presented are results of a query. The location isn't part of the search and other than the hyperlink indicating where the data is located, isn't part the of result. So again, the user is not concerned with the location.
I foresee serious security and technical issues.
LOL uh no zippy, if broadband was classified as common carriage FCC would be able to regulate and we'd have competition. As such it is not. I'm not sure WTF you mean by WiFi. WiFi is nothing more than an access point. It's not the pipe that connects you to the internet, like fiber or cable. So where WiFi is available somebody is using an ISP to connect you to the internet either via cable or fiber. If you are talking cellular like 4G, that's not wifi, and vastly worse.
Tell that to New Jersey residents that just got boned by Verizon.
Nice bullshit moron. Did you read it, it consists of Charter, Verizon, Comcast and various cellular services which or owned by telecoms. For example Clearwire which is owned by Sprint. FYI cellular is not an internet service provider.
In season 3 episode 1, where Sheldon was being mocked for saying he confirmed string theory, Sheldon gave a speech about Einstein and Einstein's greatest blunder, the cosmological constant. Barry Kripke responded that research into dark matter vindicated the cosmological constant and therefore it was not a blunder.
The problem - the assertion by Barry Kripke was wrong. Einstein's blunder was he invented the cosmological constant to show a static universe. At the time it was not known if the universe was moving or not. Einstein's early equations showed a moving universe. That bothered him, so he invented the cosmological constant to show a static universe. Later Einstein met astronomer Irwin Hubble who was able to show Einstein the universe was moving and not static. The cosmological constant was a blunder in that it was used to show a static universe. The fact that the cosmological constant was used elsewhere successfully is irrelevant; that did not change the mistake Einstein made.
Someone should have picked up in that.