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Re:$500M for Virtual Biology Initiative, Funded by Zuckerbergs
on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:19AM (#47973937)
Not sure if that’s true.
Looking at the history of modern medicine, the cure rate of diseases was not exponential, it was gradual over the course of hundreds of years.
Sure there were a few big jumps- water sanitation and antibiotics come to mind- but if you look at cured cardiovascular diseases, cancers, GI diseases etc., they all started with bad treatments that indeed slowly improved over decades.
If CZI is looking to eliminate all disease in a lifetime (say 100 years) I would expect some progress.
Re:The madness of reduced medical diagnostics
on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:29AM (#31447095)
One reason behind why doctors can’t simply do tests then not follow up is simply medical malpractice suits.
Often times, once you do the test you’re locked into figuring out everything even to the detriment of the patient for fear of getting your license revoked.
Re:The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:01AM (#28566245)
Unfortunately not, this was a famous problem taught by Feynman in his physics lectures. Essentially the Brownian motion of the ratchet and pawl mechanism (used in your watch) will eventually prevent the mechanism from harvesting energy [0].