November 2011
5 posts
Markets vs Public Health
Even once a drug or therapy passes through the FDA approval process, there’s one final step before it makes it to the general public — production and distribution. “You’ve got to get funding to bring it to the market, which involves getting [pharmaceutical industry] support,” Ayres said. And, she asked, what is the industry going to spend development costs on? “Something they...
Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase:... →
sneakattackphilosophy:
vallettaventures:
Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…
Sad Bernard.
Ontologist Sought.
It looks like a gig helping out with data mining and organization. Still, pretty wild compared to most APA fare.
I’m giving a talk based on this paper at Brown later today with one section removed and the other three sections substantially improved. Slides are here.
Not Everything is Terrible
the new M83 album
Tim Maudlin on the existence of time
Emanuel Derman, in general
Martin Wolf today but also in general
The Kid Should See This
these guys