Re: [Vo]:Why Scientists Must Share Their Failures

2017-04-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
John Berry wrote: > It might have limited application, but mostly, I don't see it, too often > success and failure is just an inch apart. > Yes! That is an important point. Unfortunately, failure is a more likely outcome. There are countless way to make an experiment

[Vo]:Another article about sloppy research and academic corruption

2017-04-17 Thread Jed Rothwell
"The Impostor Cell Line That Set Back Breast Cancer Research It’s but one example of a major problem in cancer science." http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/04/the_impostor_cell_line_that_set_back_breast_cancer_research.html A reader comment: "If people knew what

Re: [Vo]:Another article about sloppy research and academic corruption

2017-04-17 Thread Nigel Dyer
At this point I perhaps ouught to point out my own article in Nature Genetics. If you have access to the full article you will find it says that a Nature Genetics paper a year earlier is substantially flawed because they had based their conclusions on what is in fact an artefact in the data.

Re: [Vo]:Why Scientists Must Share Their Failures

2017-04-17 Thread Alain Sepeda
in fact in my school (ESIEE), multilevel neuronal network were fashion (Yann Lecun was a reference as ancient from the school). what was limiting was compute power (we were thinking about specialized hardware mimicking life)... Experts systems were more applicable, like natural language processing

[Vo]:LENR INFO - SHORTISSIMO!

2017-04-17 Thread Peter Gluck
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2017/04/apr-17-2017-lenr-info-shortissimo.html peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

Re: [Vo]:Another article about sloppy research and academic corruption

2017-04-17 Thread Jones Beene
Good eye, Nigel. ... almost calls for an abbott and costello shtick ;-) Nigel Dyer wrote: At this point I perhaps ouught to point out my own article in Nature Genetics. If you have access to the full article you will find it says that a Nature Genetics paper a year earlier is substantially

Re: [Vo]:Why Scientists Must Share Their Failures

2017-04-17 Thread John Berry
Yes Jed, and the more advanced the technology generally, the narrow the range of success becomes. This failure sharing idea might work ok if we were designing plows or wagons, but even something as basic as the internal combustion engine is too complex and has too narrow a range of success for