Maybe medicine isn't and never was science to begin with. Modern day medicine just happens to apply lots of science.
Medicine is not science, but rather medicine. Healing and human health.
Japan, in its urban areas, has had elevators like this for efficient parking-garage-packing for ages.
Ulnar Nerve At the Elbow
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Preventing RSI?
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I'm not a doctor, but do be careful about relying too much on armrests. Actually, even just leaning on your elbows too much. Theres a nerve that goes through your elbow called the ulnar nerve which gives feeling to the pinkie and ring fingers; if you compress it too often, then it can actually develop problems at the elbow (exascerbated by stuff like resting your arm on the window while you drive/depending heavily on armrests/leaning on elbow while sitting at tables). A new type of strain injury? It so happens that this is the same nerve that you hit when you slam your elbow into stuff -- the "funnybone."
This is just unfair.
Look at it this way: what if it were your career? If you work a service job, what if managers from companies worldwide in your industry started manager forums to talk about your performance and possibilies for hiring. Its way too unreliable. If you work a professional job at a desk-- same deal. And if you're a manager, what if clients all started forum-ing about your business?
Plus, is there any check for truth in comments? Perhaps I'm just a malignant troublemaker and decide one afternoon that it would be fun to ruin the career of a respectable practicing doctor.
Is phone calling and talking too slow? The old heard-from-my-friend-he's-bad [or good] seems fine to me. Phone calling and gossip are tried and trued methods.
Interesting. This is certainly a step toward the Star Trek universal translator. On the other hand, though, I wonder if this sort of technology only applies to human languages. Is such an algorithm picking up on some sort of common human brain wiring and taking advantage of that commonality to accurately translate? Or, say, if it were applied to animal language would it work too?
In short, is human language a unique form of communication, or is there some underlying, perhaps mathematical "optimal" communication method which animals (or, to think Star Trek, aliens) use too? If the latter, imagine what such an algorithm could do...
Perhaps an analogy is in order. Metabolic pathways in living beings-- as far as science is concerned-- were evolved from random chemical reactions thanks to millenia of natural selection. Its slow, progressive optimization of complex chemical pathways allow all life to process material, mobilize the energy stored in food, and run everything that anything alive could possibly need to run. In short, evolution-optimized metabolic pathways are why things live.
Now, in computer programming, there is a technique called genetic programming. Basically, if a programmer wants to create a program that accomplishes task X, all he has to do is let loose a different program which will create mountains of random code. Over time (many many processor cycles), the program will select which of the random jumbles of code accomplishes task X most efficiently, and report back to the programmer with the finished product. Voila. Completed program. Note, though, that genetic programming has also turned out solutions for complex electrical pathways that engineers had trouble solving. Yes, genetic programming has the ability to make complex electrical circuits.
When genetic programming was applied to metabolic pathways, it actually hit one (I forget exactly which one) straight on-- complete with features such as feedback loops and enzymatic inhibition.
Yes. Theres the analogy: some type of underlying mechanism is at work here. Genetic programming. Evolution. Electrial circuits and metabolic pathways. The question is, does the same apply to all communication?
I have an A+ certification-- I'm only in high school. But when I offer computer repair/custom building services, people often will respond first with a straight up "no thanks," then if I add that I've got this certification they'll think about it again for a second. Maybe this kid knows what he's doing?
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Maybe medicine isn't and never was science to begin with. Modern day medicine just happens to apply lots of science. Medicine is not science, but rather medicine. Healing and human health.
Japan, in its urban areas, has had elevators like this for efficient parking-garage-packing for ages.
I'm not a doctor, but do be careful about relying too much on armrests. Actually, even just leaning on your elbows too much. Theres a nerve that goes through your elbow called the ulnar nerve which gives feeling to the pinkie and ring fingers; if you compress it too often, then it can actually develop problems at the elbow (exascerbated by stuff like resting your arm on the window while you drive/depending heavily on armrests/leaning on elbow while sitting at tables). A new type of strain injury? It so happens that this is the same nerve that you hit when you slam your elbow into stuff -- the "funnybone."
This is just unfair. Look at it this way: what if it were your career? If you work a service job, what if managers from companies worldwide in your industry started manager forums to talk about your performance and possibilies for hiring. Its way too unreliable. If you work a professional job at a desk-- same deal. And if you're a manager, what if clients all started forum-ing about your business? Plus, is there any check for truth in comments? Perhaps I'm just a malignant troublemaker and decide one afternoon that it would be fun to ruin the career of a respectable practicing doctor. Is phone calling and talking too slow? The old heard-from-my-friend-he's-bad [or good] seems fine to me. Phone calling and gossip are tried and trued methods.
Interesting. This is certainly a step toward the Star Trek universal translator. On the other hand, though, I wonder if this sort of technology only applies to human languages. Is such an algorithm picking up on some sort of common human brain wiring and taking advantage of that commonality to accurately translate? Or, say, if it were applied to animal language would it work too? In short, is human language a unique form of communication, or is there some underlying, perhaps mathematical "optimal" communication method which animals (or, to think Star Trek, aliens) use too? If the latter, imagine what such an algorithm could do... Perhaps an analogy is in order. Metabolic pathways in living beings-- as far as science is concerned-- were evolved from random chemical reactions thanks to millenia of natural selection. Its slow, progressive optimization of complex chemical pathways allow all life to process material, mobilize the energy stored in food, and run everything that anything alive could possibly need to run. In short, evolution-optimized metabolic pathways are why things live. Now, in computer programming, there is a technique called genetic programming. Basically, if a programmer wants to create a program that accomplishes task X, all he has to do is let loose a different program which will create mountains of random code. Over time (many many processor cycles), the program will select which of the random jumbles of code accomplishes task X most efficiently, and report back to the programmer with the finished product. Voila. Completed program. Note, though, that genetic programming has also turned out solutions for complex electrical pathways that engineers had trouble solving. Yes, genetic programming has the ability to make complex electrical circuits. When genetic programming was applied to metabolic pathways, it actually hit one (I forget exactly which one) straight on-- complete with features such as feedback loops and enzymatic inhibition. Yes. Theres the analogy: some type of underlying mechanism is at work here. Genetic programming. Evolution. Electrial circuits and metabolic pathways. The question is, does the same apply to all communication?
I have an A+ certification-- I'm only in high school. But when I offer computer repair/custom building services, people often will respond first with a straight up "no thanks," then if I add that I've got this certification they'll think about it again for a second. Maybe this kid knows what he's doing?