kiterunner2346

Yeah, sure! And how about the dental decay vaccines that have been promised for, oh, about 40 year now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine

This gel will come out as soon as either

a) Hell freezes over or

b) dentists get a monopoly on the gel.

"Medical progress" is an oxymoron.

I call it "doing the same thing over and over again, hoping someday you get lucky." I think there's a commonly-used expression for that behavior.

Hinton got lucky: something he had nothing to do with changed, making him look like a stoic hero.

A winning strategy or just a lazy path?

Indeed, he wasn't competing. In fact, he wasn't moving; he kept doing what he had always been doing until, luckily, something, that he had nothing to do with, changed and allowed NN methods to work better. So I view him as essentially standing still, frozen in time, like a clock stuck at 6 o'clock. And, just like that clock, he would inevitably be correct (at least twice a day). He had nothing to do with the tools (higher memory & CPU speeds) that made his methods work, he just kept doing the same thing over and over until, one day, by accident, something important changed: his lab bought newer, faster computers.

He's not exactly Louis Pasteur is what I'm saying!

If you're carrying it, its spying on you.

I can only agree. But I thought the reason this worked was that it assured I engaged the assistance of the brightest person in the room.

Aside: I wish I were joking.

From the article:

“This is the second Silent Spring. Neonics are like a new DDT, except they are a thousand times more toxic to bees than DDT was,” Klein says in an interview."

Rachel Carson's conclusions in "Silent Spring" were never proven to be correct - nonetheless DDT was restricted by EPA (by bureaucratic mandate rather than by reference to convincing scientific proof).

DDT should be brought back in the USA.