robertfortner
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- Why there will never be a model of a cell (robertfortner.posterous.com)
Even as computing power and data increase exponentially, systems biologists now say an in silico model of the cell isn't possible
- Goodbye Mars, Hello Malaria: Bill Gates Imprimatur on Science & the 21st Century (robertfortner.posterous.com)
Space exploration, genetic engineering and cancer are out as research priorities. Malaria and global health are in. Because of Bill Gates, the 21st century will look very different from 20th century visions of the…
- Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition (robertfortner.posterous.com)
Speech recognition seems good on a cell phone but accuracy for conversational speech flatlined in 2001--and no one noticed. Computer understanding of language was supposed to lead to artificial intelligence. Now we have…