tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post8076410623149019524..comments2023-11-03T14:59:31.910+00:00Comments on The Growlery: Analysis is the mother of inventionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-4876207994470087992009-08-31T19:52:39.222+00:002009-08-31T19:52:39.222+00:00Good piece, Felix. We are truly awash in data. On ...Good piece, Felix. We are truly awash in data. On the other hand, there have been few major breakthroughs in Science based on this data recently (e.g. relativity theory, quantum theory, the transistor, lasers, etc.) I wouldn't include String theory because I am not sure it has yielded anything yet. On a practical level there has been no breakthrough in fusion research, and Nixon's War on Cancer is almost 40 years old. I don't count Mac computers and iPhones as an advance just like one wouldn't count Cassini probes or even Apollo landings. They are just extensions of technology. Maybe these current data mining programs will bring radical changes. I hope so. The nanotechnology one is interesting. <br /><br />We still don't know exactly how proteins fold, though it looks like they are starting on <i>ab initio</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_folding#Energy_landscape_theory_of_protein_folding" rel="nofollow">calculations</a>, But:<br />"Because of computational cost, ab initio MD folding simulations with explicit water are limited to peptides and very small proteins."Dr. Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06255898610620668624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14600985.post-56907625140272472052009-08-28T08:03:10.930+00:002009-08-28T08:03:10.930+00:00about the use I have made of their input
Thanks! ...<i>about the use I have made of their input</i><br /><br />Thanks! (although, reading the article, I can't even see any input I recognise). I was interested to see, though, that there's a scholarly review paper on Branestawm: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mhvvoe" rel="nofollow">Professor Brainstawm and his friends</a>, Outram D., Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 27, Number 1, March 1996 , pp. 109-114(6), Elsevier.<br /><br />I'm wearing two pairs of glasses even as I write this.Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.com