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Comment: SAT abandons the most promising of undiscovered (Score 1) 134

by harvey the nerd (#46414377) Attached to: College Board To Rethink the SAT, Partner With Khan Academy
Sounds like the College Board will concentrate on evaluating an increasingly dysfunctional middle and abandoning the top 0.1-2% with the SAT. Probably a battery of advanced, expensive achievement / AP tests for the top 2%-5% well educated students, forget about finding untrained native ability. This is a disaster to the poor but promising who can't afford to great schools.

Comment: Re:poor (Score 2) 117

by harvey the nerd (#46111327) Attached to: Study: Some Antioxidants Could Increase Cancer Rates
A trivial case is folinic acid, aka leucovorin, which is used with 5 flourouracil as the 5FU-LV pair and with third and fourth adjuvants. Old hat. Note: common folic acid is an oxidized precursor of folinic acid.

"Show" is a relative term to the level of evidence. Your tone implies you are looking for grade A evidence, with multiple multimillion dollar trials. There are a lot of lower level evidence cases and what is more important is the individual case. Extensive individualized lab work is already doable but not common. Few spend multimillions for large trials on commodities. Yet.

Comment: poor (Score 1) 117

by harvey the nerd (#46108573) Attached to: Study: Some Antioxidants Could Increase Cancer Rates
....word choice. Some antioxidants are good killers of cancer cells, and some aren't. Like various chemotherapies, you need to know which ones in which combinations and dosages work, and which don't, for a particular cancer.

Been there, done that, works well. This article just sounds like another pharma shill attack on supplements.

Comment: a triumph of.. (Score 1) 162

...mathematics, but real fluids are compressible, viscous and varying properties. Let's see how far his approach extends and how closed the answers are. Fluid mechanics text book publishers will probably give him a few paragraph boxes or pages for history and theoretical stuff. Then back to the classic stuff.

You can solve minor physics problems starting in their relavistic form, but most engineers still use Newtonian physics.
