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Summary: junk science reported by junk press.


You really think a blog post is enough to justify this conclusion?

Here, read the journal article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/17316946/Caloric-Restriction-Delay...

Please tell me how it's junk science.


Are you serious? How about this part right here in the study title:

Caloric Restriction DELAYS Disease Onset AND MORTALITY in Rhesus Monkeys

...combined with the fact that in the contents of the study you link to, they eliminate significant data points whose presence would contradict the claimed delay in mortality.

I guess we'll all have to judge for ourselves whether it's fair to eliminate a bunch of deaths other than for exceedingly obvious reasons, e.g., someone breaks into the lab and kills the monkeys. I know which side I'm on.


how is this different from basecamp?


Without darpa, how would the internet get it's start?


You can't choke off satellite uplinks. Maybe the CIA should smuggle some into Iran.


Actually, if I'm not totally mistaken, you can and they did it with the BBC broadcast. What you do is that you send interference to the satellite so it can't receive any data. Therefor it's always theoretically possible to jam a satellite that is receiving a signal from Iran. The BBC solved the problem by relaying through another satellite.


TeX much ?


TeX doesn't do OCR at all, let alone for mathematical expressions. Regardless of who developed it, this is quite cool.

Edit: I wonder how much of this is straight up OCR and how much of it actually watches how the text is written. Could be some really interesting tech here.


Here you go. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630233

Hold on while I find the better link... Here you go: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/02/09/recognizing-impr...

I thought this second one was pretty interesting. An EMR company CEO on a forum I sometimes read enthusiastically pushes Win 7 over XP. Apparently it's _much_ better.


Interesting, thanks for the link.


There are converters to convert MathML into TeX (e.g. http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/mmltotex.html).


Mathematicians are artists. They don't want to type a bunch of obscure computer codes and then fiddle with them until they get something that looks pretty. Mathematicians want to dash their thoughts down before they flee with the dawn mist, and then move on to the next shattering lightning bolt of genius.


Actually, it's ok having something to do between the sparks of inspiration..


what good is that? I don't want a virtual HP-11C. I want real buttons (hint, hint).


So far nobody's invented a device that's capable of shape-shifting, so replicating the interface via touch is as good as you can get without actually buying the calculator.


You want real buttons, you can get a real HP 12c on ebay for $10.


Get off the Intel bandwagon and go ARM.


Did any one notice that he hired Greenspan? The guy who fueled the housing bubble by lowering interest rates down to 1% the foolishness that made it possible for Paulson to make his billions.


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