Are SNPs useful?

Are Methods Really Useful?

Useless Actions Are Useful

Planning as heuristic search is a powerful approach to solving domain independent planning problems. In recent years, various successful heuristics and planners like FF, LPG, FAST DOWNWARD or SGPLAN have been proposed in this context. However, as heuristics only estimate the distance to goal states, a general problem of heuristic search is the existence of plateaus in the search space topology ...

Are random axioms useful?

The famous Gödel incompleteness theorem says that for every sufficiently rich formal theory there exist true unprovable statements. Such statements would be natural candidates for being added as axioms, but how can we obtain them? One classical (and well studied) approach is to add (to some theory T ) an axiom that claims the consistency of T . In this paper we discuss another approach (motivat...

Are companion diagnostics useful?

We define a companion diagnostics (CDx) test as any diagnostic tool that guides the selection of patient treatment. In the US, these tests include diagnostics cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) run in CLIA-accredited laboratories. The answer to the title’s question is obviously in the affirmative. We discuss the growing need to improv...

are platelets count useful for detecting the grade of steatosis?