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IDCCfan,
I think it better to stay grounded on this news
How do you stay grounded from 60,000 feet? Just forget the parachute and dive?
I really like her background and is obviously a great hire.
Would you like her as well were she a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe being a native of that country?
Decades ago there was such a hire with rave reviews of another R&D hopeful I owned. I was astonished and later delighted to meet a splendid lady who had gotten her Ph.D. from Harvard, as best I can recall [and not an MBA] though her initial academic credits came from a somewhat less prestigious university.
There is a great deal more than the fluff and stuff I would like to know about Ms. Liu but I admit to my prejudice in favor of the "yellow menace" of yore.
In the first place I did not even see whether she was American or Chinese.
Does that matter?
Can.
On the brighter side, my deeply prejudiced first impression is that the cost of Dr. Lebby's high-priced digs as distant from headquarters as scientists are from mountain moonshiners has just been proven cheaper than dirt.
JMO
Best, Terry
From link Schiets' Posting:
https://tinyurl.com/y7nl69b6
Polymers 2018, 10(6), 603; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym10060603
Recent Progress of Imprinted Polymer Photonic Waveguide Devices and Applications
Xiu-You Han 1,* [OrcID] , Zhen-Lin Wu 1
, Si-Cheng Yang 1
, Fang-Fang Shen 1
, Yu-Xin Liang 1,2
, Ling-Hua Wang 3
, Jin-Yan Wang 4
, Jun Ren 5
, Ling-Yun Jia 5
, Hua Zhang 6
, Shu-Hui Bo 6
, Geert Morthier 2
and Ming-Shan Zhao 1,* [OrcID]
1
School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
2
Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Ghent University-IMEC, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
3
College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116, China
4
School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
5
School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
6
Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/10/6/603
One ignores dragons at great peril IMO.
Best, Terry
Proto,
I still wonder how much effort is being spent on developing the 50Gbs device onto a PIC? Is it possible that the upcoming news release will have leapfrogged the legacy standard packaging?
It would be grand if so.
That is where the future lies, something that escaped the high-minded thinking of The Admiral.
There was that leak? Scary jog from competition? Lightning bolt from the blue? From Schiets month or two or three ago that was met with wild apathy hereabouts.
Better to read than cheer and jeer methinks.
Hoary Wall Street maxim: He who buys doesn't read. He who reads doesn't buy. Breaking the mold can be exhilarating and rewarding but is always dangerous.
In any case it most always takes longer.
Longer than what? Longer than anyone thinks in R&D. The cutting edge is a tough place to live. The Empire fights hard against change.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Reason #10 for LWLG's CEO to keep LWLG's manufacturing and and engineering over a thousand miles away in the Eastern Badlands
https://tinyurl.com/y8fckyn4
You heard it all here first but wouldn't listen:
Study: San Francisco has the highest rent in the world
I knew something was wildly out of whack when my sister could get hundreds of thousands for a San Francisco quake shack and I couldn't get $10 [or a nickel, for that matter] for any one of our decaying cabins in Upstate New York.
Is it worth paying the rent for the CEO on Mission Street in Frisco while the working folk toil among mountain goats and rattlers, gila monsters and hillbillies?
- Indubitabily, yes. Lebby gets to rubs shoulder with billionaire entrepreneurs and homeless indigents from the South who got one way tickets from spendthrift governments.
Is it even lucid for my sister to live there?
- Yes. Where else could one get big bucks for a shack?
Strange world.
Best, Terry
Scope08,
Your idyllic party rarely occurs and more than one in memory has been abortive.
In one of the latter, a particularly melancholy recollection, a Nazi short failed to show as promised to much disappointment. "Nazi" was not of our origin but his and he made better efforts of living up to the "honor" than even our president - in postings.
Should the Lightwave Magma Celebration occur it is most unlikely we will be there unless the party is held in the drowned city of Delta where live in one of the high dry spots.
Actually it would not be bad place for a celebration:
http://lite987.com/surfacing-the-lost-village-of-delta-the-haunts-and-legends-of-new-york/
The park built around the drowning is miles away from the local loonie bins and various prisons and hopefully the celebrants won't have just shorts and sellouts.
But we are looking for something to help my crippled wife and photonics could be a wonderful tool to tell the world about an even more wonderful tool that is developed but only deployed for dogs.
I won't bore or annoy anyone with the details.
Best, Terry
IDCCfan,
The next step is put geothermal plants in the Antarctic
I am delighted by the suggested use of the cheapest, most dependable and more abundant energy source on earth than all others combined from its own internal sun. The lagging development is nothing short of scandalous with energy-hogging industries from aluminum to data centers sailing off to a small remote island in the Atlantic for the
energy available anywhere on land and maybe some day anywhere on the oceans and lakes but it's hard to picture the resources required even for the minimal staffing and maintenance of a completed plant being economical.
The purported geological advantages of Iceland is largely farce. What the Icelanders had most of was the intelligence and education to utilize geothermal.
In the same vein the advantages posed by full development of photonics for computation will reduce energy requirements to a very modest level indeed.
Iceland could maybe then expand its pint-size "banana plantation" to an export business.
Best, Terry
Gates,
Thank you.
This looks like a melding of very different visions.
"That we are in the Eastman Kodak building today is so fitting..."
Sure is but far from the meaning intended.
The remains left from the Eastman Kodak collapse in Rochester are very different from those left by the Detroit disaster. That Eastman Kodak building is a splendid time capsule from the time of loss of vision of an iconic giant of miniaturization that resulted from the catastrophic decision to destroy Polaroid that was already in an advanced stage of decay instead of keeping up with scientific advances.
"Silicon photonics" is mindful to me of the loss of vision of Eastman Kodak as it was about to be eaten alive by hungry competitors.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Juice,
If I remember correctly we suppose to hear about the 4Kscore coverage decision next week no?
You probably nailed it - dang it all.
- Just my own feeling that the 4Kcore test is going to meet continuing resistance, as ugly as it is [again in my own own opinion] as it and other tests for aggressive prostate cancer have from urologists for many years. Beyond that, some spectaculars may be nearing some very BIG NEWS on very sophisticated medical breakthrough - like ELOX that is making lots of seeming progress with cystic fibrosis.
Anyway it's pleasant reading about some good news way far away from D.C.
Best, Terry
Options Traders Expect Huge Moves in OPKO Health (OPK) Stock
https://tinyurl.com/yb62a2f5
Don't blame me if Zack's is wrong. They usually are in my limited experience.
Just a send off to hopefully a happy weekend.
Best, Terry
Wouldn't it be nice if there were another solution for this, say an autologous one
Certainly but autologous takes time and time tends to be crucial with heart disease. Can it be made nearly instantaneous somehow? Perhaps. I have no knowledge of that.
It is no accident Type O was named because Type O is a universal donor - as you probably know - but that is just the beginning of the story.
Way back before time began my father's blood donation was refused but he was asked if he would allow himself to be listed as a possible donor to contact in an emergency for somebody with a rare blood type. On the other hand God help him if he needed a blood transfusion.
As we lived in a very large, sparsely populated desert valley, the blood type may have simply been an AB blood type with Dad likely a Type O like myself. Or it may have been much more complex. All parties passed away long ago so I have no easy way of knowing.
My brother was an Air Force medic who called for a pint or two of blood in Vietnam. A soft Georgia accent [his recounting] asked if that was "black or white blood." It took strategic questioning to find out which was available.
That bit of bigotry is now more or less official with knowledge that there are hidden racial differences but black and white races are totally spurious. The original caucasian race was an early scientific division that had more dark-skinned people than light-skinned people [e.g. South Asians] included based primarily on bone structure. The racists at the FDA and CDC - well, let's drop that.
Thank you for your thoughts.
I think allogeneic will be with us for a very long time both because of scientific limitations and an ugly, nearly universal racism.
Check out these identical twins:
https://tinyurl.com/ycdcrosv
Best, Terry
And now that imaginary toils and trouble and the unsupportable boom has been busted....
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=OPK&insttype=Stock&freq=1&show=&time=13
I have no intention of gloating about those long-suffering stockholders who sold out at a bad time and hope they have done well since.
I am still in the red [blush] but OPK looks to me like a nice winner in a bum market just starting to run.
Could be wrong. Usually am.
Best, Terry
Nickftw,
Worry about yourself, Nick.
What makes you think you have any business giving medical or investment advice to a stranger you know nothing about?
I will leave your problems to any family or friends or law enforcement as indicated.
Best, Terry
Me, illiterate?...
The university I attended overseas used American engineering and science text books. When I came over for an advanced degree I had no problem completing the required courses.
That's cheating.
Some fellas here would have you believe all you need is heroic slogans from the best teachers and...
But that's the definition of demagoguery.
Joseph Conrad was a Pole [I apologize in advance for a lesson every educated person should know] who jumped ship in England knowing only a word or two of English in his early 20's and became a great master of the English language. In his classic English novels he bemoaned lacking the ability to compose heroic slogans that could set feet marching and the marchers shouting with joy and patriotism and deep knowledge of everything they had learned from their master.
Conrad's ponderous writing is not poetry that can say in a few lines what a novelist is trying to say in volumes but still well worth a read.
You can ask Lebby what the heck a photon is since he is a true apostle of photonics but he can't tell you. No one can.
How can something be energy and be used like matter? How can a black hole swallow light with it's gravitational attraction and how do we know there are even black holes when no one has ever seen one?
A demagogue can tell you all about such things but not a physicist, not even an Einstein who "saw things" in 4 dimensions with his terrible learning disability that are far beyond us ordinaries in any language.
Thank you, TH, for your lesson. I don't suppose you want to hear how my Chinese grandson had to return to China for a spell to learn New Jersey English?
That's what I thought.
Best, Terry
I wonder if this is the kind of thing AgeX has been working on?
For sure, Bobby, while looking beyond.
Back before time I think it was Diacrin that tried to repair damaged hearts by transplanting healthy tissue into infarct areas [areas of dead tissue from heart attacks].
Nothing worked out for those star-crossed people that were like the old Lucky Star clipper ship that was sunk in the middle of the Pacific Ocean by a meteorite. Half the crew drowned while the other half made it to land and were eaten by cannibals. [Hazy recall of a long ago John Nesbitt tale on the radio]
Best not to be too early but without the pioneers nothing happens.
Best, Terry
I don’t know what you just said.
Always glad to help out.
https://tinyurl.com/y9kn4zho
Best, Terry
Insys' Awaits FDA Verdict For Pain Drug
Lots a' luck.
What exactly is Buprenorphine?
https://www.naabt.org/faq_answers.cfm?ID=2
Buprenorphine is an opioid partial agonist. This means that, although Buprenorphine is an opioid, and thus can produce typical opioid effects and side effects such as euphoria and respiratory depression, its maximal effects are less than those of full agonists like heroin and methadone.
Are the chances good the politicos at the FDA will approve another opioid today by Public Enemy Number 1?
- I personally don't think so even though Buprenorphine is a lifesaver.
Buprenorphine is the generic form of Subutex, a prescription drug used to treat dependence on opioid painkillers such as oxycodone (OxyContin). It's also prescribed in lower dosages to treat pain. ... Buprenorphine is a narcotic and a controlled substance. If your doctor prescribes buprenorphine, it is only for your use.Oct 31, 2014
Is Buprenorphine the same as methadone?
But there are key differences between buprenorphine and methadone. Buprenorphine is a partial agonist; methadone, like heroin, is a full agonist. It is by their actions on opioid receptors that opioids achieve their analgesic (pain-killing) as well as their addictive effects.Feb 12, 2013
Aside from all else, Insys sells pharmaceutical-grade drugs in a liquid form for primary use as a mist. Street drugs are the business of others though Insys has become the primary target of witch hunters.
For its abuses? Successful selling? Open cooperation with law enforcement?
- I leave that open to the judgment of others.
I have a hefty portion of my inconsiderable assets invested in Insys and believe firmly in its mission and eventual triumph but leave it up to others to decide whether to assume the risk of bad government on a destructive mission.
Best, Terry
And so ends another day of breast-beating and calumnies to what purpose pray?
I expect LWLG to overcome despite the terrible harm done when its development of a photonic computer was discontinued by its then leadership.
Drs. Lebby and Leonberger clearly have a far clearer vision of the future than some of the shallower profiteers around here seeking to sellout cheap.
"I believe LWLG is purely a Leonberger, Lebby show. The rest have moved on as Father Time has creeped into the picture."
https://tinyurl.com/ycvc99nj
Many others have taken the longterm view that really matters despite all the brickbats. I am proud of the company of my betters.
Best, Terry
inversor,
Get beyond $6 and it might even pass.
For all I know a bid of a buck and a half could win the company but a bid of $100/share [or any number you wish to substitute] might well be defeated by the abortive powers of management approved by our Supreme Court to defeat the raids, and later even greenmail, practiced most prominently by the iconic T. Boone Pickens.
https://tinyurl.com/y7b2fywf
Public companies were shorn of their cash and easily salable assets and then set loose in a forlorn condition to survive as best they could.
This was generally enormously profitable but was far from helpful to the well-being of the country and economy.
Eventually Boone and his like extracted payment from companies by only threatening a raid.
The Supreme Court's approval of poison pills, a huge expansion of shares that could be issued to all shareholders except the raiders, handed over control from shareholders to management - hardly a salubrious fix.
Whatever the case, the eventual result of takeovers, hostile or friendly, is not typically helpful except to predators.
All JMO.
Best, Terry
Trofee,
You know that I know that you know that the word catwads was ment to be the word Carwash..
Could be but catwad is defined as a group of cats tightly bunched together by the Urban Dictionary - an unofficial listing of American slang.
I see that word used occasionally in what seems a negative sense as perhaps something akin to anti-feminist women's gossip.
We men are allowed to gossip endlessly and shamelessly without reproach.
I didn't understand and didn't really want to.
All of little interest and hardly contributing to comity.
Thank you for your post. I feel a huge contribution to technology is under development by LWLG with the petty bickering likely discouraging some readers.
Best, Terry
you can review my posts
Why would anyone do that?
You can't answer for one where I pointed out a "problem." You never answered. Just continued on.
You don't have to answer to me or anyone but you do have to answer to yourself.
I guarantee you if a $5/sh offer came in tomorrow, the BOD would have to meet on it, and likely put it up for a vote, that's just the way it works in the real world
Where can I cash in this imaginary guarantee of your mythical "real world?"
Such naked offers do not spring up suddenly out of nowhere like Venus on the Half Shell. One can expect that there have been numerous feelers over the years. I suppose sudden ambushes do occur like a spectacular takeover that a stock in Canada I owned was victimized by.
Without the slightest notice, marauders showed up at the annual meeting and voted the then current board out of control. The end results were disastrous. The moneybags had long been called "experts" on geothermal power despite their total incompetence. I am sure you could research the matter and even a recent spectacular rise of a shadow of the original company: RAMPF.
But such events are rarer than supernovas in the vastness of space which has no laws to prevent such occurrences.
Just drop the string of false accusations and you will be fine.
Or don't, as it grabs you.
Best, Terry
I am more than ready for the next chapter to be written, and I'm sure other "real" Longs are too!
You even capitalized longs - for emphasis?
I will leave the insults to you.
I think LWLG is worth vastly more than a buck or two a share from its current market price and even as it continues to feed the vulture.
That's my personal opinion. I do not hold with the ludicrous theory [IMO] markets are omniscient.
Best, Terry
I am more than ready for the next chapter to be written, and I'm sure other "real" Longs are too!
You are hardly the only long here.
Why disgrace yourself with false claims?
Best, Terry
Care to defend your ludicrous valuations [IMO] of LWLG stock, Proto?
Do you deny LWLG will batter down the purple brick wall?
And that is only worth a buck or two a share?
Laughable IMO.
Best, Terry
Wow it’s been 7 whole weeks since a PR.
LOL!
Pitcook is right on the money with this.
Imagine you're in a charge of a multi-year R&D contract and you are the goat chosen to present all the progress made for the quarter or half-year or year and there has been none at all.
That is not what you report.
How would I know?
Because I made up stuff as a matter of necessity.
The imaginary nonsense that Thomas Edison reported he had successfully proven 10,000 ways or a thousand ways or a hundred ways to make a durable light bulb didn't work is fanciful and particularly obvious considering Edison's autism from which Edison never "came out" as Einstein managed to.
https://tinyurl.com/ycx2t9s3
Comically Ford even nailed Edison's chair to the floor in one confused version
https://tinyurl.com/ydg9fnng
but Ford, despite a catalog of personal flaws, was surely never one to avoid social contacts with perceived equals.
As far as I am concerned Lebby's tenure as CEO and the progress that has been accomplished is splendid.
What happens in the future is unknown until the future happens.
Life is hard that way - or exciting if you are tuned in to reality.
Best, Terry
Trofee to Coolaire:
If you have some time after the catwads just read some of the post hete and decide to stay or to go
Coolaire may have been around a lot longer than you, Trofee, and just tired of the wait. I read some of his recent posts to be sure.
A huge problem here is that so many are in attack mode that nothing else matters.
Then what you get is screaming hissy fits instead of discussion.
Is that your desire? I have no idea what catwads may be but I guess that is it.
Best, Terry
Coolair,
needless to say, the Chinese are taking the majority of the market share
Know all about "the Chinese" do you? All of them, or just some of them or maybe none of them?
How about on the 4th of July you can tell us who won the War of Independence for America?
Bet you can't.
Maybe you can but most don't even try. And maybe America is all over so who cares?
How about taking George Washington's word that a Prussian general did more than almost anyone, certainly more than Lafayette?
Never heard of any such nonsense huh? Prussian general, ha ha ha?
Well he wasn't really a Prussian general, but only a Prussian captain. Hard to tell about people polishing their credentials but the Prussian certainly became an American general. He turned Washington's raw recruits into a finely honed army that whipped one of the great empires on earth. And General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben did it all beginning in the icy cold winter hellhole of Valley Forge where my schoolteachers told the children Washington and his troops rested up instead of enduring hunger, disease, death, desertion and chills with inadequate food, clothing, quarters and supplies of all kinds.
So why has nobody ever heard of Baron von Steuben who requested burial in an unmarked grave, which was done? The corpse was later dug up and buried under this
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Baron_von_Steuben_Monumental_Tomb_Jul_10.jpg
so he would never get out and so is lost forever.
The secret story of LWLG is becoming more visible every day. It is no longer longer buried in exotic sites but has its CEO headquartered where the greatest action is and spreading the word around the world.
How come it takes so long?
- Best to concentrate on washing cars or other useful activities if you think the development is now taking long.
Best, Terry
PETX appears to have no fans.
Is there something better than a forlorn loser with enormous prospects?
- Yes, one with excellent funding. I am not enchanted by the "activist fund" which smells more like a parasite to me but there is evidence of funding. Maybe it's all good.
It seems sales should be rising substantially but the supply chain is not as easy to figure as, say, a pet food store.
Entyce seems to me likely a real winner when it gets a break. The osteosarcoma drug should be great.
I am pinning a lot of hope on the arthritis drug as you know, with all sorts of scenarios possible but obviously my enthusiasm is pretty much mine alone.
I guess we will see in time.
Best, terry
NewLink Genetics Announces Positive Updated Phase 1 Data with Indoximod Plus Radio-Immunotherapy for Pediatric Patients with DIPG Presented at ISPNO 2018
AMES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NewLink Genetics Corporation (NASDAQ:NLNK), reported that updated Phase 1 data evaluating indoximod plus front-line radiation and maintenance chemotherapy for the treatment of pediatric patients with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) were presented Sunday, July 1, at the International Symposium of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (ISPNO) 2018 Annual Meeting in Denver.
Data were presented on ten newly diagnosed DIPG patients, all of whom had initiated therapy at the time of this assessment. All (10/10) demonstrated initial symptomatic improvement. Eight of ten had completed radiation, with the remaining 2 of 10 patients continuing radiotherapy. While a subset of the patient cohort developed inflammatory and other adverse symptomology, a common occurrence in this patient population, these symptoms were actively managed. Currently, 9/10 patients remain on study, with the longest time on study of 8.5 months. These data include more mature follow-up on the 6 patients previously presented at AACR 2018.
“These data continue to demonstrate the potential for indoximod plus radiochemotherapy as a combination treatment regimen which may improve disease related symptoms for these pediatric patients with an otherwise dire prognosis,” said Dr. Theodore S. Johnson, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Augusta University, lead investigator for the trial. “We remain encouraged and look forward to additional data as the study proceeds.”
This DIPG cohort is a subset of NLG2105, a Phase 1 study evaluating indoximod, NewLink’s IDO pathway inhibitor, in combination with radiation and chemotherapy for pediatric patients with malignant brain tumors. The DIPG cohort has been expanded from an initial pilot study based on early safety and efficacy data and is currently enrolling with a target of 30 DIPG patients.
About Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, is a rare, aggressive brain tumor found in the brain stem that almost exclusively affects children...
https://tinyurl.com/y9b87rd8
Just another "lost" biotech with promise as the smart money that fled to the dumbos is receiving their "reward."
Best, Terry
when ever I hear that an upstart like LWLG has the goods and are a lock, and nobody has taken them out yet I get concerned....I guess I'm a nervous nelly:)
Well, Nervous Nelly , what more did you hear from the takeouts?
Each of us have to follow our own star. It's all we have.
You might be able to tell me a lot about the stocks that were sold for fine profits and then powered the marauder to the heavens but I know not one of those.
I do know of the rootbeer flavor that is co-powering GSK's malaria vaccine but the complicated history of that incredible true story has more twists and turns than a sidewinder and none of the short stories are glorious. And the saponin story, like many others, might have been glorious without a series of rummage sales.
Such tales are legion. Where are the tales of glory from the sellouts?
Want to hear again about the minnow I sold when it swallowed a sick whale? The sick whale was a none-too-glorious Banquet Foods but it was a giant then compared to ConAgra that I thought had overreached and would surely die of indigestion. Besides I had my profits you see.
Anyway you should follow your own star I reckon. I will stick with Lebby and hope he is no sellout like I was.
Best, Terry
Th6565 to IDCCfan:
whose "Goo" you are referring to?
The disconnect may come from IDCCfan not noting the huge waste in R&D that GlobalFoundries may have committed by not noticing what was happening:
From IDCC's quote of GlobalFoundries promotion:
“The explosive need for bandwidth is fueling demand for a new generation of optical interconnects,” said Mike Cadigan, senior vice president of sales and the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business unit at Global Foundries. “Our silicon photonics technologies enable customers to deliver unprecedented levels of connectivity..."
It should be no secret the world is full of backwards-looking soothsayers and not so many facing the future.
When funny futurist Elon Musk sent one of his foolish electric cars to a moon of Saturn perhaps rather than Mars it mattered not a whit. I think electric cars are a modern dead-end but far worse is Jeff Bezos buying into the organic food phantasmagoria with his Whole Foods acquisition that is creating a generation with hordes of blind children, not to mention starvation and other maladies, by profiteers pushing fake medicine.
Why do nonprofit, public-spirited, highly-educated groups like Greenpeace and the Union of Concerned Scientists push such nostrums? You will have to ask them. I can't account for lunacy. Who can?
There are rational arguments for electric cars but none at all for trademarked "organic foods" that even your government has a hand in policing.
A civic-minded press that occasionally does destroy preposterous promotions should probably long ago have told Global Foundries about the money they were probably wasting but it is a close call. The organic foods fraud is not a close call at all.
How dare I call out important people so casually? Maybe it comes from growing up with a diamondback rattler nursery in the backyard? Not everybody learns so early to be wary.
Best, Terry
JohnnyLightwave,
Back in the day I personally worked on some very advanced microwave circuits in very small packages.
And long before that I knew cool photons would soon replace hot, pokey electrons.
A teensy, tiny Control Data supercomputer to meet the coming overwhelming challenge of Japan's "Fifth Generation" AI was yet bulked up enormously for plumbing of liquid nitrogen to cool the monster but could still be held in one hand. With cool photons one might lose the super computer under a fingernail like a co-worker in Vietnam did with tiny film from a camera built into a general's eyeglasses.
Not making fun of you, Johnny. Not in the least. Only noting obsolescence that once took generations moves faster and faster as old men remember too well what they once did and forget what they couldn't.
My father scoffed at the old men in Ireland who railed against younger men having horses do all the work. Surprisingly he knew the sweat and tears and dangers of working with horses but recognized machines were no bed of roses for the younger generation.
Not only Control Data's supercomputer, and the consortium of companies built by GE's bungling efforts to overwhelm the IBM upstart trying to meet the scary Fifth Generation AI threat, were blown away along with Japan's fantasy that lives on in a comedic way with the preposterous quantum computer phantasmagoria.
We both know, Johnny, that the magical glop that tames photons that don't actually exist will change the world and probably very soon. We know that for very, very, very, absolute certain - almost.
Dr. Emanuel Lasker was a very bright man, an idol of the autistic young Albert Einstein. Well Dr. Lasker might have been an idol of young Albert as the World Chess Champion for 22 years had an estimated IQ rating higher than all the other world chess champions and even that of the latter day Einstein.
"Dr. Lasker," asked a reporter, "don't you have to have an enormous memory of good moves to be world champion."
"The key to winning chess games," opined the old pirate, "is not remembering good moves but forgetting bad ones."
Best, Terry
I assume we have 2,400 current share holders, if each buys 1,000 shares within next 6 months, those 2,400,000 shares would stay on us Longs.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. - Mark Twain
I have been hammered harder than anyone here for pointing out the lunacy of feeding vultures except when a stock is dead but the stats are not as helpful as they appear.
Time as a variable is best left to Einsteins and the only ones here with such a claim are fantasizing. Estimates are meaningless.
Recovery from mental instability may still be cured by shock therapy, like a price collapse when the loose nuts in the steering mechanism are repaired like exchanging an admiral for a scientist.
The range of possible times to mathematical solution of LWLG's engineering [not scientific - people here hate science] problems range from micro-seconds to infinity. Scientific solutions are far more difficult.
Best, Terry
I added Thursday because why not?
The birds.
Vietnamese girls always sounded like birds chirping. Why don't I hear that in Mandarin? It has to be there doesn't it?
Age does bad things to hearing.
I would most like to know what Chinese are doing. Maybe when my Chinese grandson, who had to be sent to China to learn English because New Jersey doesn't do that sort of thing, gets older he will be able to tell me.
Not the Chinese generals who are as dumb as all generals everywhere. The Chinese scientists and mathematicians who don't even need spies.
The reveries are mind-numbing and pointless. Engineering and math problems will be solved when they are solved.
That has only little to do with the plutocratic virus that is eating American livers and brains, hearts and lungs and threatens to polish off the markets as an appetizer.
But what to do?
I am far too old to march which was proven to me years ago.
Just buy I guess, as the old soldier advises. But forget the hope. That has been proven vice, not virtue.
Best, Terry
BioTime Awarded Grant From the NIH
BioTime...today announced that it has been awarded a grant of up to $1.56 million from the Small Business Innovation Research program of the National Institutes...vision restoration program for more advanced retinal diseases and injuries, which severely impact the quality of life for millions of people with no treatment option. This initiative aims at improving vision...whether ether caused by retinal injuries, age-related macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa or other causes....
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biotime-awarded-grant-nih-110000791.html
BTX might want to spend the money fast before the U.S. Treasury runs out of bandwidth.
I really like this grant.
Last I heard BTX was way ahead of the curve in testing a treatment for dry AMD but this looks way beyond even BTX's most promising program.
The "beauty" treatments are much further advanced and seemingly little threatened by the routine biotech trainwrecks but IMHO curing blindness might even make BTX visible to the hordes of contrarian elephant herders on Wall Street, who are all the time falling off cliffs alongside their charges.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Proto,
I could envision a partner agreement with POETF, their InP Interposer may well become a standard in packaging on the InP Platform
You might want to visit an ophthalmologist to clear up that vision problem.
Ships were made of concrete in WWII and an experimental airplane even had a coal-burning engine but those weren't waves of the future like LWLG's polymers.
Horses still race and Dave Barry even wrote about lawnmower races but polymers are the future despite necessary accommodations.
JMO.
Best, Terry
Artic appears to me to be a company of very high interest even if they can't spell worth a damn. :-}
Since they sre not a public corporation, there is much pertinent information missing by design or default.
Best, Terry
By combining SiP optical devices with eo-polymer modulators, it is possible to generate very high data rates (100 Gbps and greater) in an SOH structure. Very preliminary results on SOH slot-waveguide modulator structures using LWL materials indicates modulation at rates >30Gbps that when put into a multichannel platform with for example 4 channels, 100Gbps (and beyond) opportunities can be enabled.
Advanced Telecom/Datacom Transceivers: A goal of our development effort is to enable a Polymer PIC transceiver engine to address the datacenter/cloud computing/Web 2.0 markets. This engine, which both transmits and receives data on single-mode fibers, has many applications in telecom networks and in and between datacenters as intra and inter rack interconnects.
Do tell.
Man oh man, would China love to eat that up.
Best, Terry
UGH! $2.07.
The same deep thought has crossed my mind instead of my more comforting WOW! Another opportunity.
I expect I would be buying today had I few shekels but it might be a terrible mistake with the childish economics today casting a dark shadow over the future.
Instead I humbly suggest contemplation of the deep, inscrutable technology in which we are invested even as it exists today while waiting for a bit clearer picture of the future maladministration by politicians, judges and bureaucrats.
https://tinyurl.com/yd3g379w
Just a suggestion. I found it umm, ahh - even more mind-bending than a talk by Dr. West or a novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
Best, Terry
My comment Re: ELOX on OPK board:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=141805753
The endgame is huge with these pure, tiny R&D biotechs but this sure has the look and feel of a derby winner for now IMHO.
Best, Terry
And suddenly a little known, tiny Biotch [except to specialized moneybags like Frost] gets all kinds of notice even after a hefty rise hit some whitewater.
These are just before-market headlines dominating my broker's account:
ELOX MW Eloxx Pharmaceuticals assigned $26 price target by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey MarketWatch
ELOX MW Eloxx Pharmaceuticals initiated as buy at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey MarketWatch
ELOX DJ Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Price Target Announced at $26.00/Share by SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Dow Jones
ELOX Eloxx Expands Leadership Team with Two Global Pharmaceutical Executives to Accelerate Growth
ELOX Eloxx Pharmaceuticals: David P. Snow Appointed Chief Business Officer >ELOX Dow Jones
How many of our revered stock analysts and market advisors do you think ever heard of ELOX?
- My guess is none at all.
Should you buy ELOX?
- Beats me.
It has a lot of similarity to a lottery ticket that only beats looking for a jackpot at the end of a rainbow. [I don't buy lottery tickets but I do buy some dreamy stuff like ELOX - not to mention OPK].
That is one reason I bought a bit of OPK initially. I get to learn of a world way beyond at times without undue risk - at least that was my thinking.
It can be a wonderful world when you're not falling off cliffs at the end of bull runs.
Best, Terry