Posts Tagged ‘error’

22
Nov

Doubt greets IMF bailout offers | csmonitor.com

   Posted by: dhcsoul    in In Extremis

Doubt greets IMF bailout offers

The fund seeks to soften effects of the financial collapse, but many Asian leaders – citing bad advice from the ‘97 crisis – are wary of conditions attached to assistance.

Doubt greets IMF bailout offers | csmonitor.com.

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18
Nov

Breadcrumbs for November 18th through 10:24

   Posted by: dhcsoul    in Breadcrumbs

George Harrison visiting the Oval Office in 1974.
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These are my links for November 18th from 09:24 to 10:24:

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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PBS NEWS HOUR Interview with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, famous economist and author of “The Black Swan” and Dr. Mandelbrot, professor of Mathematics (and originator of ‘fractal geometry’) .

Both say that the present economy more serious than the Great Depression, and the economy during the American Revolution.

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President George W. Bush meets with California...
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Fannie Freddie Phony – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com.

Klugman takes Arnold Schwarzenegger to task for his false statement about a Fannie/Freddie connection to the subprime mortgage crisie.  He comes to the conclusion that the phony account of the crisis is now part of Republican orthodoxy: “part of what you have to believe to be a respectable member of the party.”

Nothing can be solved at the governmental level when politicans believe the lies of their own spinmasters, and the neocons have such a great  machine in place that it even fogs reality for those that are in positions of governance.

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in Pharyngula [Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal] PZ Myers writes about a recent press release from Princeton:
“Unfortunately, the puff piece writer and the scientists involved seem incapable of actually explaining what they found, which makes me extremely suspicious.
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Anyway, I’ll be looking for the paper. My bet would be that it says nothing like the claims made for it by the press release, or that it will be an embarrassing error of interpretation by the authors.:
The target of his disbelief was also discussed in a recent thread on friendfeed:
Geoff Schultz (friend of Louis Gray) posted a link
Princeton Team Challenges Darwin: Evolution Not Random?
3 hours ago – via Bookmarklet
I can’t really understand what their theory actually is, but I’m skeptical that it
presents a challenge to our understanding of the role of randomness is evolution.
Randomness is just supposed to describe some of the ways DNA changes over time,
not the way the organism works. – j1m
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I had asked Jonathan Eisen about this http://phylogenomics.blogspot…., who pointed me
to the discussion at Pharyngula http://scienceblogs.com/pharyn… The consensus appears
to be that it’s unsupported hype. – Ruchira S. Datta
This key sentence seems nonsensical to me: “The discovery answers an age-old
questionthat has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin: How can organisms be
so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random.” Evolution is anything but
random. Mutation is random, but evolution is directed by differential fitness, which is
definitely not random.- Benjy Weinberger
Yeah, that’s the basic mistake as I understand it. – j1m
I would assume the creationism vs. evolution debate is not either/or. For those who
have some religion, it can be safely assumed that evolution could be directed -
essentiallyas a tool of creation. – Louis Gray
I suspect that PZ Meyers (in the second piece referenced by Ruchira) is correct in
saying; “The other problem that often occurs is that one of the investigators opens his
mouth and reveals that he is completely out of his depth, and that the team has absolutely
no conception of how evolution actually works. This time, there is no exception.” – You
The researchers should perhaps go have a look at some of Chilean biologists
Humberto Maturana & Francisco Varela (circa 1973) on Autopoiesis [structures,
based on an externalflow of molecules and energy, produce the components which,
in turn, continue to maintainthe organized bounded structure that gives rise to these components]. Nor is it any surprise that a viable system exhibits homeostasis. – You

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22
Jul

Breadcrumbs for 2008-07-23

   Posted by: dsoul    in Breadcrumbs

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22
Jul

The best of times

   Posted by: dsoul    in cybernetics

Carl Pope has an interesting piece

If you look far enough into the future you can devalue the worth of not just the human race but of everything (at least by using NPV techniques) to such an extent that the value of humanity, civilization and the environment  today is nothing at all… it appears that this could be the basis of behind thinking of some well known politcal advisors…. As we must live in the best of times,  lets devalue the worth of everything in the future to zip by acting in such a way as to make it happen exactly that way…with the future worse than now it truly can be said “we do live in the best of times” QED

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4
Oct

Changes in lab reporting values – Creates a Dilemma

   Posted by: dsoul    in EMR

In CanadianEMR Dr. Brookstone reports that a change in the presentation of lab results has eliminated a huge benefit that he had as a clinician in easily identifing trends through graphing the results for presentation to patients to demonstrate progress or lack thereof.

The discussion thread was quite active and included opinions that went beyond the trouble of changing of standard presentation methods to the very usefulness of graphing medical results.

I don’t believe the discussion does more than scratch the surface, and will be writing more about the visual display of medical information in future posts, but this appears to be one of the few discussions of the state of the art in EMR: http://emruser.typepad.com/canadianemr/2004/07/changes_in_lab_.html

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30
Jan

Breadcrumbs for 2006-01-31

   Posted by: dsoul    in Breadcrumbs

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29
Jan

Breadcrumbs for 2006-01-30

   Posted by: dsoul    in Breadcrumbs

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