Thursday, July 31, 2008

More evidence that schizophrenia is an evolutionary disorders

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A year ago I coined the term "evolutionary disorders" for diseases arising from malfunctions of rapidly evolving organs -- like th...

Sometimes a criminal can do you a favor

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File this one under ‘life is best drunk black’. We know phishing scams are getting more sophisticated. It’s the age old story – target the...

Challenges to medicine and science – medication invention hits a brick wall

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Pharma has a problem – they’re not coming up with any great ideas… Health Blog : Hey, Drug Researchers, Lotsa Luck! Name a drugmake...

Amazon Payments and Simple Pay - will be big (and a bug)

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PayPal, about a hundred years late, has established a signed email infrastructure. I don't see PayPal/eBay phishing scams on Gmail any m...

Odd note in a story on a national artificial joint registry

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The NYT joins a call for a national joint registry to find problems sooner. Makes sense, if the FDA had not been gutted by Bush it would pro...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Three Shtetl-Optimized posts for livening the mind

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I really need to study, so I'm noting these for future reading. These are a set of Aaronson posts, found by tracing back from the latest...

The meaningless beta: Apple and Google

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The emerging consensus is that iPhone 2.0 is a big, painful beta program . The real release will be iPhone 2.1. Truthfully, my main pains wi...

McCain embraces Rove. Of course.

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The only surprise is that it took him this long. Editorial - Low-Road Express - Editorial - NYTimes.com On July 3, news reports said Senator...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

FailMe: a classy approach to getting even

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Apple - FailMe is a spoof of Apple's MobileMess with the perfect combination of humor and angry bitchiness. We've come a long way ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

The problem with my 'brain and mind' tag - the mind is not in the brain

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Blogger supports tagging of posts, though they're called "labels". One of the tags for this blog is Brain and mind . There'...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Why Apple can't do the Cloud: secrecy is the enemy

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I've been forced to stare deep into the bowels of Apple's MobileMess , Outlook synchronization , and oddball .Mac conversion disas...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Apple begins the MobileMe recovery

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It only took the NYT and the squeaking of thousands of customer mice, but Apple has launched @ daily MobileMe status reports: Apple - Mobile...

Software-as-service and DRM mean you don't own. You rent. Everything. Another lesson from Yahoo.

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This would be the third time I recall that a major vendor has shut down a DRM service and stripped customers of all their products. AppleI...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Strangely met in night: a blog I’ll never read …

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A google search took me to a caustic discussion of a Hofstadter book: The New Skeptic: I Am a Strange Loop: Gödel's Loop …Conti...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Bayes theorem and the anthropic principle

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Years ago I used to teach Bayes theorem to informatics grad students. I was reassigned to other lectures though. Truth is, I had a hard ti...