Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Modeling on a computer, but testing? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Barney Quinn Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:55 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] California bashing - was Fires Jeffery Smith wrote: > Or let them be vaccinated with a substance tested by an IBM computer. I'd go a little bit easy here. There are computers and there are computers. It is a very, very long way from the world of PC's and Mac boxes to that of heavy metal high performance super computing. A lot of organic and bio-chemistry comes down to stereo-chemistry, meaning how complex molecules react and interact in a real, three dimensional world. Modern super computers can do some very incredible things when it comes to modeling and simulating things. We are in no way talking Bill Gates, the blue screen of death, desktops and OSX and Steve Jobs here. Scientific computing is done by very different people with very different training and priorities than business computing types. I don't think that I would allow myself to be vaccinated with a compound which had never been tested or validated in a living system, but I have no objection to one which had as much of the preliminaty work as possible done using modern modeling techniques. Barney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html