Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] California bashing - was Fires
From: Eric Welch <eric@jphotog.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:24:50 -0800
References: <006a01c39f05$a837d4f0$2b0110ac@CCA4A5EF37E11E>

Actually I have a friend at the Salk Institute that is working on 
software just like that. It will be able to predict the interaction of 
brain neruons with drugs. The drug companies are going nuts trying to 
win him into their camp. His software requires the biggest 
Supercomputers on the planet. He tests the biggest of IBM's mainframes 
before they play Kasparov. (ASCII White, Deep Blue, etc.). His software 
gives their computers something to sink their teeth into.

Oh, and he's switching to G5 Macs and OS X. :-)

On Oct 30, 2003, at 8:48 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:

>  I've always been astounded that the Bob Barkers of the
> world think that people can program a computer to determine if a drug 
> is
> going to work.
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Eric

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by 
little statesmen, philosophers, and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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