When corporate arrogance is involved we called it Bayesian inference not superstition.

Cellular metabolism from the look of it. Cellular division and metabolism are linked but not synonymous.

However that’s the current theory, of a long line of theories that did not pan out.

I recall someone was analyzing the refractive index of various tissues in order to tighten the target area for multi beam radiation therapy. Particularly for brain cancers. By hitting from multiple angles the dosage in surrounding tissues is lower, and by calculating how the head lenses the beam you reduce the high dose area in the middle, like a 3d Venn diagram.

But I don’t remember is whether that experiment became SOP or not.

Won't the effective index of all materials be basically 1 for the high energy electrons involved here?

Seems not in this case. But I believe the use case was deep brain tumors, like the hippocampus, where any beam alignment problems could be life altering.

There was also a study that showed that chemotherapy efficacy was enhanced by fasting before treatment.

It seems that when calories are scarce, healthy cells turtle up while cancer cells keep consuming, so fasting reduces absorption rates in healthy tissues and thus collateral damage.

Healthy cells CAN turtle-up, whereas cancer cells engage in unregulated reproduction. Also, some cancer cells can only consume glucose. Which, in a fasted state, would mean that the majority of energy would be in ketones(if the individual were metabolically healthy), starving the cancer cells to death.

Why wouldn’t a strict keto diet not be a cure for those cancers?

many people try it, but the results are mixed.

Because the cancers cells adapt! (fast reproduction and high mutation rate of the cancerous cells make that process quicker than antibiotics resistance)

There was a study that chemotherapy works best in the _morning_. Derek Lowe had an article about this:

It’s an s-tier case study for UX research though. Maybe the doctors don’t remember but we do.

Therac is the first one I list and Knight Capital is the second. It is in fact possible to bankrupt your company by misusing feature toggles.

I learned about Therac at college in the 90s.

Some years later, I interviewed at Knight Capital, just a couple of weeks before their blowup. (Dreadful interview at which I did dreadfully, being asked to write C _over the phone_ by a supremely uninterested engineer. Quite a red flag in retrospect.)

I feel like you should get yourself a merit badge printed for that, sewed onto your laptop bag.

Sounds like my Amazon interview.

> Quite a red flag in retrospect.

No pun intended?

At this point about 80% of my interaction with AI has been reacting to an AI code review tool. For better or worse it reviews all code moves and indentions which means all the architecture work I’m doing is kicking asbestos dust everywhere. It’s harping on a dozen misfeatures that look like bugs, but some needed either tickets or documentation and that’s been handled now. It’s also found about half a dozen bugs I didn’t notice, in part because the tests were written by an optimist, and I mean that as a dig.

That’s a different kind of productivity but equally valuable.

I wonder if the bad traffic overwhelmed the good traffic enough that it's simpler to pick out some of the good traffic from the bad and replay it rather than spot all of the bad traffic.

Honestly, since I'm never really in a position to see much of that money, at this point I'd be more concerned about my coworkers. And while that typically correlates with the amount of money you either have or receive, they're often out of balance one way or the other.

Deepness in the Sky is probably the first Sci Fi alien I read who didn't feel like a human wearing an alien suit.

Fantasy sometimes does this better but usually with specific tropes.

If you liked that and you haven't read it yet, give "Dragon's Egg" by Robert L. Forward a read.