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For some years I've been thinking about how to use modern machine learning and artificial intelligence in animal training. Most "automated" uses of animal training involve lab anim…

I'd say hyperthyroidism is difficult to overlook. At least I hope nobody is started on long term stimulant treatment without routinely checking simple blood parameters.

ADHD has severe consequences on children: less happiness, less self control, more aggressiveness, higher risk of substance abuse and in general much lower grades. Unless a new trea…

Today the population limiting factor for Humans seems to be women's education. No kidding, this seems to be the number one factor in birth-rates. The more education women are getti…

I don't believe they do, because the death rates just aren't that high. Population-limiting factors for Humans have historically been mostly food supply and childhood diseases. I'v…

How is a doctor supposed to diagnose a Virus like Zika without advanced lab tests? The symptoms are non-specific and often non-obvious. In fact, I doubt Zika virus was regularly te…

I'd exclude breast cancer because it's detectable with non-medical means before it becomes fatal. I also wasn't speaking so much about medical incidence statistics, but more about …

I sometimes wonder how much of "we never heard of x/y/z disease 10-15 years ago" is due to less frequent testing.

Asking people to delay pregnancies will reduce some of the burden. I don't think the mosquito-killing gene editing technology is ready for deployment yet...

If you love what you do, you'll never work an hour in your life. So maybe academics shouldn't work at all, since the compensation isn't worth doing something you don't love ;-)

It's not exactly a new approach, but it may finally get off the ground...

One point of MOOCs is that they are not text books. That does not mean text books are bad or that MOOCs are all you'll ever want. Some MOOCs create video content totally "from scra…

I would not subscribe to the statement about what "the evolution says". Evolution does not produce the "best" individuals, it just drives population towards a local maximum in thei…

There is no cancer which affects "the old" predominantly. The chances stay pretty much the same (with some exceptions). Also, at some age beyond 60, cancer stops being the main med…

Multicellular organisms have to control the replication and renewal of their cells constantly. In a simplified view, cancer is a loss of that control.

I'd also like to recommend the novel series "The Expanse". While not entirely accurate, at least the start of the series deals with a lot of the near-future limits in space travel:…

Well, preventing Cancer has been a priority for evolution since the first multicellular organisms arose. It's just not that easy. Developing a drug is an economically difficult thi…

The obvious solution is probably the best: Use an asynchronous framework (like node.js or asyncio) for the REST interface and wait for the completion of the task to return a respon…

He would have, wouldn't he?

"Fear of starvation", not "fear of immediate starvation"... And I did not say this is the only problem with poverty.

It depends on the living standards... $1.9 doesn't afford you a comfortable life anywhere, but in the developing world, it's enough to not fear starvation. And that fear is a big p…

The interaction of AI and manual cars will depend on the general discipline of the drivers. There are countries in the world where according to rumours the traffic rules are somewh…

Slightly pessimistic. Also, in 1911 knowledge about what works and doesn't work was a lot more limited. The safeguards modern democracies employ now are far superior. At the very l…

Not necessarily. In U.S. politics the most important persons are always figure heads. Their prominence hides democratic and not so democratic mechanisms behind decision making or e…

Luckily IS/ISIS doesn't show any signs of becoming a functioning state. Their income is big for a "terrorist" organization, but small for a state. And with the kind of internationa…