Posted on 02/25/2020 7:11:20 AM PST by Kaslin
On March 12, 1938, Germany invaded Austria. Recognizing that war with the Third Reich was now probable and anticipating bombing raids on London, Admiral Hugh Sinclair, head of the Government Code and Cipher School (GCCS), set out to find property outside the city where the agency could relocate. Unable to get funding from the government, Sinclair purchased with his own money Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. This would be the site of the most spectacular cryptographic breakthroughs in history, made possible in part by the engineering of the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer.
In September of 1938, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich to announce that he had achieved “peace in our time.” Alexander Denniston, operational head of GCCS, was skeptical. Deinniston, who had led the team that decrypted the Zimmermann Telegram, set out to recruit prospective cryptologists. He dined at the high tables of most of the Oxford and Cambridge colleges and identified the most brilliant and creative problem-solvers among the young dons and students. GCCS sleuths were mostly former scholars in the humanities, but Denniston recruited mathematicians, linguists, engineers, and others. Some were keen chess players; several were accomplished musicians. Many were eccentric. There seemed to be a correlation
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Is that the right headline?
Yes. Read the article.
The point I am making here is if a cure for cancer is ever reached it will also likely be a cure for old age as well. Immortality. Here on Earth. A world where dictators never die.
It is an interesting article, but the government spending massive amounts of money typically has little hope of “curing” anything. The global warming nonsense is just one example. The federal government has now spent nearly as much on global warming in inflation adjusted dollars as was spent on the entire Apollo space program. The economic impact of nonsensical regulations at the federal, state, and local levels is far greater. Yet absolutely no positive impact is recognizable, and the underlying reasons why this is so hamper almost all government funded “research”.
https://www.climatedollars.org/full-study/us-govt-funding-of-climate-change/
I did a quick and incomplete read of the article but enough of it to see the author’s point.
He wants to put mathematicians, physicists, computer hardware and software engineers, microbiologists, geneticists and such on a Bletchley Park like project to solve the mystery of cancer at its fundamental level.
Sounds good to me. Mini-Mike should be spending his $Billions on something like this rather than chasing his really impossible dream.
I did a fairly thorough read of the article. Too bad Bloomberg isn’t spending his money on this. Perhaps in 4 1/2 years this can be President Trump’s future project. He and Rush can work on it together.
I heard a Doctor speculate that if all the money, time and research that went into fighting AIDS had instead been spent on cancer there would be a cure by now.
The CCI (Cancer Care Industry) does not want nor will allow a cure.
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Unfortunately I have to agree with you.
Cancer treatment is a big business and the pharmaceutical companies have a lot at stake when it comes to new cancer cures. The Status Quo is the centerpiece of their business philosophy.
So you have a political problem as well as a technical challenge. Someone needs to step up to the task. My choice would be a few billionaires. Not because of tax or budget issues but just as a way of keeping the government on the sidelines - a difficult task.
> “Germany should have never allowed Hitler to become Chancellor.”
The United States almost allowed Hillary Rotten to be President.
Hitler and Rotten aside, the writeup is borderline amateurish, conjuring up a false construct of a cadre of Turing geniuses applying novel mathematical theories to beating cancer.
Ahem ... cancer researchers already have a cadre of ingenious bioinformaticists making inroads into the intra and inter cell signaling of cancerous settings.
Biology is NOT engineering, although bioengineering is tremendously useful to assist in treating biological conditions.
The author’s use of the Enigma machine parallel is frankly stupid, or more politely it is not the setting for drawing parallels. Traffic patterns and meteorology are more fruitful analogy models.
Unfotunately, cancer is not a deterministic problem, not a mathematical engineering problem with deterministic output. It is more a statistical probability problem that is more conducive to AI methods than to engineering solutions. A Trump initiative will most assuredly include a large AI component.
Trump will renew in Trumpian style a Cure Cancer initiative.
But we can take it to the bank the perennial cancer lobbyists who are nothing more than Beltway lawyer bandits with their grubby paws in the cancer research cookie jar, these dogs are not going to see business as usual.
Trump is the consummate decision maker and his decision will not be falling into the ‘business as usual’ category. Instead, he will have a direct meeting with the nation’s top cancer scientists to surmise what are the most promising breakthroughs of the day and then have his people work hand in hand with these top scientists to focus funding on research and treatment settings that include these top priorities.
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