Mathematics meets real life
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Mathematics meets real life
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Re: Mathematics meets real life
#2Focused ultrasound could have been used to do cardiac ablation as well, though it's probably still in experimental stage. It's also noninvasive.
In general, focused ultrasound is the cure to a lot of ailments but is criminally underfunded at the moment. It's a potential immortality device.
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#3Good heavens, I shall be watching this blog for the next few days to see how it goes.
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/a-trip-to-watford-gra...
this is class stuff. I shall try the airport shoelace tying problem out on my motley crews next week.
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#4As for the right dosage of Warfarin, there are genetic tests that allow to make a better initial guess at least in some cases. Genetics itself involve a lot of math, and there's also economic aspects (healthcare costs) on top of that. I hope to see more and more mathematicians and programmers participating in healthcare.
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#5Focused ultrasound could have been used to do cardiac ablation as well, though it's probably still in experimental stage. It's also noninvasive. In general, focused ultrasound is the cure to a lot of ailments but is criminally underfunded at the moment. It's a potential immortality device.
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water.
(Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
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#6Focused ultrasound could have been used to do cardiac ablation as well, though it's probably still in experimental stage. It's also noninvasive. In general, focused ultrasound is the cure to a lot of ailments but is criminally underfunded at the moment. It's a potential immortality device.
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water. (Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou...
http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u...
(links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers)
It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water. (Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou... http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u... (links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers) It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
> It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH
And waste time wading through a bunch of patent nonsense put up by scammers in the often-vain hope that there is something, just one real item of legitimate information, lost in all the dross.
You say 'closed-minded', I say 'wary of wasting time on yet another example of the alt-med scammer runaround'.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water. (Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou... http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u... (links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers) It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
"cure to a lot of ailments ... criminally underfunded ... potential immortality".
I mean as a mechanism, "focused ultrasound" pretty much says it all. But how successful is it in trials? I think I took a quick look at some links (or googled) based on another one of your comments, but not being in the medical field, or currently needing any repairs that involve tissue ablation, I didn't spend too long investigating the state of the art.
FWIW, I didn't downvote you. I just want to encourage you to sound less crackpottish. Focus on peer-reviewed evidence for specific applications, don't allude to some miracle cure-all.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does it interact with the colloidal silver I am taking? What about my magnetic wristbands? I'm also having problems getting to the clinic these days because big oil stole my car that runs on water. (Sorry, that's just how you're coming across.)
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou... http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u... (links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers) It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
If you write with sufficiently strong terms that you sound like you're blindly evangelising rather than rationally advocating, the average HN reader is going to go "eep" and adjust their prior expectation of your being right -way- down.
This effect is, I'm afraid, largely independent of whether you're -actually- right or not - so assuming your goals include "maximise the number of readers of your comment who go on to do some research about the technique", adjusting the language you use to try and put across that they should go and research it is probably a good idea.
Disclaimer: The above in no way indicates a judgement as to whether the technique in question is sufficiently awesome to deserve the language you used.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://www.fusfoundation.org/MRgFUS-Overview/about-focused-u... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultrasou... http://bergcityuni.wordpress.com/projects/cardiac-ablation-u... (links to sites linking to university funded medical researchers) It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH. For a supposedly tech themed discussion site there's a lot of closed-minded and google-challenged folk on here.
> It doesn't take long to do a GOOGLE SEARCH And waste time wading through a bunch of patent nonsense put up by scammers in the often-vain hope that there is something , just one real item of legitimate information , lost in all the dross. You say 'closed-minded', I say 'wary of wasting time on yet another example of the alt-med scammer runaround'.
All it takes is a couple of clicks to get a huge list of researchers, including Harvard and John Hopkins