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more research is needed before this justifies becoming a wino 🙂
human dose is 150-200 mg/day, but given that many red wines contain 3-4 mg of resveratrol per liter, a comparable intake would require 50 bottles of wine per day.
2008-11-09:
A team of students have spliced genes into brewer’s yeast to increase its output of resveratrol, the same healthful chemical found in red wine.
sign me up!
scientific progress is no more design than evolution is. to increase the outcomes we need to increase the number of stochastic experiments: many small bets
I have therefore reached a decision. From this day forward, my allegiances in the String Wars will be open for sale to the highest bidder. Like a cynical arms merchant, I will offer my computational-complexity and humor services to both sides, and publicly espouse the views of whichever side seems more interested in buying them at the moment. Fly me to an exotic enough location, put me up in a swank enough hotel, and the number of spacetime dimensions can be anything you want it to be: 4, 10, 11, or even 172.9+3πi.
i too, am a scott aaronson fan. his NP-completeness and physical reality is the snarkiest physics paper i have ever read. every now and then scott writes a paper that is a bit more widely accessible, like NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality. And now this one…
https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791
all i ever wanted to know about the intersection of quantum computing, cosmology, complexity theory etc
stefan moved to a new host a year ago.
a fun talk loosely based on the paper “NP-completeness and physical reality”, which i thoroughly enjoyed.
huh. when i was in school we pretty much stopped at P and NP, now there are 545 complexity classes.
state of the art in neuroimaging
rosetta@home continues to impress.
it turns out many of these blind predictions have an accuracy that is unprecedented. Computational protein design methodology has never before been applied to vaccine design
rosetta@home sets a new record for structure prediction: the xray crystallography phase problem was solved by computation for the first time. things like this is why i run r@h
too bad for open access. i guess the scientific process is still too mired in the traditional ways. this will come back.
Nature is killing off the experiment after just a few months. It appears that most authors had absolutely 0 interest in pre-publishing their works for the rabble to critique — and, not surprisingly, of the ones that were published, there was very little activity in terms of peer review.
Physicists have detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter partner – an extremely rare event. The discovery of the single top quark could help scientists better explain how the universe works and how objects acquire their mass, thereby assisting human understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe.
now about that higgs boson.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 