The Virtual Physical Human

Jul 7

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It could mean the end of animal testing and eventually even clinical patient drug trials. The European Comission has allocated 8 million Euros to build a computational model of a human being. And not just a generic model, this purports to be a patient-specific computer model for personalised and predictive healthcare. Sub-projects include computer models of the heart, models for dementia and osteoporosis.

 

The Virtual Physical Human project appears to be quite interesting and of definite interest to the Healthcare world in general and GE Healthcare in specific.

 

What caught my eye was this from one of the pages on the portal. Is this going to be another case of Death by XML ?

 

“The VPH NoE aims to develop, evolve and promote standardised markup languages which permit interoperability of models and, where this is appropriate, interoperable codes which may be coupled both horizontally and vertically. “

Tears in Heaven

Jul 4

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These last two days I have played this song on my guitar so many times.

I had learnt this song more than 15 years back on the piano. I don’t think I still do
much justice.

The Girl From Kabul

Jun 27

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My sister is now in Afghanistan. A few days ago she sent over a few photos of children of that country. Bright, beautiful kids. One of them caught my attention because this girl looks exactly like what my sister did when she was about 8 or 9.

  

A small conversation on Facebook ensued.

Welcome to the Sarcar universe

Jun 20

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Today I have not been doing much work. No chores. No running errands at home. It’s about 6 in the evening and I need to go out to do some shopping and dinner. My sweet little TimeTracker Firefox addon says that I have been browsing for 3 hours 33 minutes 33 seconds today (when I took the screenshot). Nice little addon — keeps running a clock in the background only when the Firefox window is in focus. So that’s how long I’ve been browsing.

Browsing lets you learn so much. I discovered my Italian-Swiss roots today. Errm, I mean I always knew but I thought I would tell you gently, dear reader, of my rather craft-worthy lineage.

See you at my house in the Swiss Alps.