Author of the project here. Sorry about this.
Monica is not for everyone. I built it for me because I can't remember stuff. It's not my fault, I have a really bad memory and I think I'm somehow autistic. I would prefer that I didn't need it, and I hope no one will ever need it, but we do.
So for a certain type of people, it's useful.
Do you know that this tool is used in a lot of religious organizations? For prison visitors? For clubs and associations? It's good that some people find it useful for them.
> Can you remember the names of the children of all your friends? Can you remember the wedding anniversary of your brother? Can you tell the last time you called your grand mother and what you talked about?
I freaked out because I can't remember any of that stuff. I have to keep my kids' birthdays in an app just so I can recall how old they are.
Presumably, because it’s perceived as technology intruding into a very personal and intimate sphere that’s social relationships with people you know very well.
I personally don’t care. If you have to remember my face using a digital system because your analogue one won’t handle it, then that’s an accessibility feature.
I'm not sure this is a huge issue if you set up user expectations adequately. Just like JoeAsshole@gmail.com isn't the same account as JoeAsshole@hotmail.com.
A workable alternative would be using a pubkey fingerprint with an mutable display name, but who wants to help their family sort that out?
Fuck no. I had to deal with a rental that had driver assist technology and it damn near killed me. There was a boulder on the road around a blind corner and the car fought me trying to swerve out of the way, I barely avoided it.
Imagine auto braking on black ice or because of a faulty sensor. We're giving immature technology too much control of the vehicle.
AEB is absolute magic for preventing rear endings by distracted drivers in stop and go traffic. People who's behavior doesn't tend to come with much risk of this will experience mostly false positives from AEB hence why "everyone" has a story.
Many of us are quite familiar with the reliability of software, and have serious concerns about trusting it to make the right decisions in a complex real-world situation.
Many of us are quite familiar with the reliability of humans and have serious concerns about trusting them to make the right decisions in a complex real-world situation.
There are almost 2 million rear end collisions in the US every year. Humans just don't have the reaction times to handle many situations. That is also best case. Many people are distracted while driving.
Well the Android core devs were ex BeOS engineers, as were the iPod touch engineers (which later became the iPhone), so I’d assume the engineers knew what they were doing. Sadly, the DotCom crash in 1999 removed funding from BeInc, we could have had these devices a decade earlier.
At one point there were half a dozen ex-Be Inc engineers working on Android... Dianne Hackbourne and Ficus Kirkpatrick come to mind, but there were more.
That's really misleading. There are large spans of Earth's recentish (i.e. Phanerozoic) history where there are aren't significant reef building organisms at all. Furthermore, "bleaching" is very specific to today's scleractinian corals, which are not the main reef building organisms in the past. They didn't exist before the Triassic.
It's true that some mass extinctions coincide with the loss of the major reef builders at the time, but that's mostly reflective of most shallow marine life dying off. It's not necessarily causal.
There are also mass extinctions where reef builders truck right through. E.g. the K-T boundary.
Before gastropods evolved, stromatolites were significant reef builders.
In the Ordovician, tabulate corals were important reef builders, although they mostly form patch reefs. Stromatporoids (kind of a hard sponge - they're weird) were also present, and become more important as primary reef building organisms in the Devonian and Silurian.
The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian didn't have the sort of reefs we think about today. Instead there were a lot of deep water carbonate mounds with bryozoans, echinoderms (e.g crinoids and blastoids), etc.
In the Permian, bryozoans were one of key shallow water reef builders.
Modern corals arose in the Triassic, and have been important reef builders since. However, rudist bivalves were particularly dominant in the Cretaceous as large reef builders. They went extinct at the K-T boundary, but modern scleractinian corals continued more or less straight through.
Not CAR-T or CRISPR AFAIK, but there's been some recent breakthroughs with getting treatments past the blood brain barrier, and promising glioblastoma treatments are in the pipeline as well. This is just what I've seen on the internet news, you'd find more than I know about it with some internet searches.
I hope you aren't affected by GBM. If you are, or someone you know is, my only advice is to live life to the fullest while you can and don't let yourself fall into denial of the prognosis.
Not me but my wife. Will just put this out there for anyone else, the advancements made in Cancer treatment in the past few years are impressive. Don't lose hope.
Also, listen to your doctors as all of the sudden everyone is oncologist. Listen to your doctors, seek second opinions, do research but question everything as there is a lot of snake oil for sale.
I'm so sorry. My mom was diagnosed a few years ago and she got preyed on by snake oil salesmen to the tune of 6 digits. The money doesn't matter to me, but people are really fucked up.
I can recommend Duke's neuro-oncology center though. They did a great job with her when Sloan Kettering wouldn't touch her.
Best of luck to the both of you and hang in there.
Pharma typically spends a lot more on marketing than research. In fact, there is little to no correlation between research costs and the cost of a drug.
