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Finding next MS drug in common industrial chemical, lithium carbonate

Posted on November 2, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster
by Scott Hensley, npr.org

There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring.

But there are a few. One is lithium…

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How ‘Sunshine Vitamin’ D May Be Helpful in Fighting Multiple Sclerosis (hopkinsmedicine.org)

Stanford artificial intelligence e-learning course draws four times the entire student body

Posted on August 22, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

There is currently no consensus on how closely... — There is currently no consensus on how closely the brain should be simulated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!)

Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups.

Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com)
Using Artificial Intelligence (And A Little Scolding) To Reduce Energy Use (fastcoexist.com)
Artificial intelligence (cyberleague.wordpress.com)
Random and Inconclusive Thoughts on What It Means to Be Human (mraybould.wordpress.com)
Artificial Intelligence Goes Mobile to Create Context-Aware Business Users’ Assistants by ClickSoftware (sys-con.com)

Artificial intelligence is already here (and in control)

Posted on February 19, 2011February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Just when many were convinced of the futility of AI in the immediate future, an interesting article in Wired shows just how embedded it is in our everyday life, from flash trading to self driving cars, fraud detection and more. The difference? Let computers accomplish tasks we don’t want to do their own way instead of trying to make them think like humans.

Artificial intelligence is here