His French is so simple and yet, incredibly beautiful and elegant, in a way that I am not even able to express in words. Only Voltaire compares.
"tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre." -- "All the woe of man comes from one single thing only: not knowing how to remain at rest, in a room"
In the same text, he follows with:
"Le roi est environné de gens qui ne pensent qu’à divertir le roi, et à l’empêcher de penser à lui. Car il est malheureux, tout roi qu’il est, s’il y pense."
"The king is surrounded by people who think only of amusing the king and preventing him from thinking about himself. For he is unhappy, though he be king, if he thinks about it."
Most likely Gide ("Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent", "Believe those who seek Truth, doubt those who find it") and not Voltaire ;)
Voltaire was generally more subtle: "un bon mot ne prouve rien", a witty saying proves nothing, as he'd say.
I'm wondering what the ¬ operator was doing in BASIC. Line 25.
At first, I was thinking it might be power, so that A and B should be the same but calculated differently, but the final output shows that B is a bit less than double that of A. Or maybe it's just losing more precision because of log conversions, but I'm surprised that would error towards a bigger number. FWIW, I don't think either answer is correct, so I think the program is just demonstrating different rounding errors due to loss of precision.
Beware that green tea supplements have been associated with very sever liver damage. Even though most survive, they often require prolonged intensive care, with attending complications, muscle wasting, etc.
Read this, seems A) rare and B) not clearly due to green tea extract.
The data is basically anecdotal and there isn’t a lot of cases. And none of the cases were due to using green tea, they were herbal mixtures with many ingredients.
It is rare, and is probably due to a combination of green tea and weight loss. However, the effects are catastrophic, and it worth pointing out before someone decides to use tea extracts to "protect" their liver.
There are more cases that appears through cursory review of the literature, as most go unreported/unpublished. I have seen one case myself, and the person barely survived.
I also strongly recommend using an iron gall ink (Platinum makes a few; another very good one is http://www.registrarsink.co.uk). Those inks are very easy to work with, even on the crappiest paper, and are quite resistant to UV, water, and other hasards.
Pharma and rich greedy doctors are an easy target, but reality is (always) more complicated.
Pyridoxine/doxylamine is nothing new, and was released in the USA in the fifties, and withdrawn from the market in the early eighties due to numerous (baseless) lawsuit alleging it caused birth defects. This formulation is known as Diclectin in Canada, where there were no lawsuits (and thus, no withdrawal), and it costs pennies.
The medication was reintroduced in the USA about 10 years ago as Diclegis by another manufacturer, and Bonjesta is essentially Dicglesis with improved pharmacokinetics (whether this matters clinically is another question).
It is interesting to note that Bonjesta is produced by Duchesnay USA, which is owned by the Canadian company Duchesnay, which markets Diclectin here in Canada. I suspect that no American company is willing to risk a lawsuit *even* at the current seemingly absurdly high pricing. Duchesnay USA is essentially a mono-pill company, and I imagine that the strategy is that they're willing to go under in case of a class action.
Diagnosis is based on imperfect data with very high noise-to-signal ratio, and with auditory (patient's history), visual and tactile inputs. Treatment often need to be tailored for each patients unique needs, goals, and co-existing diseases.
Right, but the unique profile (BMI, glucose levels, heart rate patterns) is something that an ML system could do better than any doctor. And right now the way medicine is distributed is by undergoing intense clinical trials on the general public. But, could drugs not be manufactured for the needs of each specific profile? Seems a matter of data intelligence and 3D printing on the manufacturing side to me.
You're assuming that more data will reveal a hidden pattern, but the fact is that most data, and especially most of the easily collectable data is useless junk.
"tout le malheur des hommes vient d’une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre." -- "All the woe of man comes from one single thing only: not knowing how to remain at rest, in a room"
In the same text, he follows with:
"Le roi est environné de gens qui ne pensent qu’à divertir le roi, et à l’empêcher de penser à lui. Car il est malheureux, tout roi qu’il est, s’il y pense."
"The king is surrounded by people who think only of amusing the king and preventing him from thinking about himself. For he is unhappy, though he be king, if he thinks about it."