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Year 2017: technological highlights

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  1. jld says:

    A good recipe for “home brewed” senolytics: fasting for 3 days!
    Works fine on arthritis for a 70 years old, no other measurements available 🙂

    1. A good recipe for “home brewed” senolytics: fasting for 3 days! Works fine on arthritis for a 70 years old, no other measurements available

      To my knowledge, we do not have any senolytic therapies yet (for human beings). The fact that it helps your arthritis might be due to factors other the clearance of senescent cells.

      1. jld says:

        I don’t know but you don’t know either. 🙂

      2. jld says:

        And BTW fasting has been validated by “official” research for rheumatoid arthritis and quite a lot of other ailements: Fasting: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications.

        1. Sure. Fasting is probably beneficial.

  2. 1TFP for 2K is an extremely discouraging price tag. Why shouldn’t I buy a Xeon Phi instead? Also for 1.5K I can put two Nvidia cards with a summary processing power of 20 TFP. Of course, it is not easy to load GPUs, but for many interesting tasks, I could get much more than 1TFP anyways.

    1. I think that the idea is that you can get both the Core i9 and a set of GPUs. These are not exclusive technologies.