Summary: The former attorney
for Turing Pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli has been convicted of conspiring in the scheme to defraud investors.
We have Two codes
for The Turing Test on Xbox One to giveaway.
At the time, homosexuality was illegal and was grounds
for Turing's arrest.
As the second half of the movie comes around, one wouldn't be criticised for saying that «codes» are an allegory
for Turing's sexual orientation.
Hollywood productions aside, Turing is probably best known
for the Turing Test, a proposal designed to provide a criterion for deciding whether a machine is thinking.
On 24 December 2013, Queen Elizabeth II signed a pardon [17]
for Turing's conviction for gross indecency, with immediate effect.
I am not sure exactly what CAPTCHA stands for, but the «T» stands
for Turing and the «H» stands for Human.
The Oversight Committee meeting, if scheduled, could lead to subpoenas
for Turing and Valeant to produce more information about drug pricing.
cool man wth good heat a man who will love me not the one who will seen u later live u am here
for ture friendship and good one
Not exact matches
Shkreli originally became infamous
for his other former company
Turing Pharma's 5,000 % price hike
for a drug used by cancer and AIDS patients.
She added that
Turing has only owned Daraprim
for less than three months, which hasn't been enough time to collect the data requested.
More recently,
Turing has also refused Cummings and Sanders» request
for more information on its drug pricing.
Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous
for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company
Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.
When I thought about the Shkreli situation and the Valeant situation where you have folks who, in the instance of Shkreli and
Turing, buy a drug that's been sold
for 60 years at the price range of $ 13.50, then overnight to raise it to $ 750 per pill — and we're talking about life - saving drugs — that really concerned me.
This can set you up also
for more long term reputation rehabilitation by forcing a focus on
Turing as a research and development company — not a pharma hedge fund hybrid.»
Jon Haas, the Director of Patient Access at
Turing, responded: «You can buy Pyramethamine / Sulfa [sic] combo pills from a vet meds website
for about $ 80.»»
At the hearing, Dr. David Kimberlin, who specializes in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spoke of a situation in September, around the time Daraprim's price went up after
Turing bought the rights to the drug, in which he found barriers to getting the drug because the monthly cost
for four tablets suddenly spiked to $ 3,000 from $ 54.
He's hired a crisis PR firm, and run into another pharmaceutical company that has decided to market a competing drug to
Turing's pyrimethamine (known on the market as Daraprim)
for $ 1 per dose.
Often it turns out that the price increases by Valeant and
Turing that have provoked the most criticism have been on drugs that are off - patent — meaning generic competitors are free to enter the market, typically bringing the price that most people pay
for the drugs way down.
You might not immediately recognize the name Alan
Turing, but you can thank him
for pioneering modern - day computer science.
The following, done against the backdrop of the 50th annual
Turing Award, an honor in computer science from the Association
for Computing Machinery, has been edited
for length and clarity.
Separating these standouts from
Turing's schemes will help clarify this discussion
for everyone concerned.
The judge said that the punishment
for the founder of
Turing Pharmaceuticals is not
for jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug, nor
for his abrasive behavior.
We wish to thank Martin
for helping us build
Turing Pharmaceuticals into the dynamic research focused company it is today, and wish him the best in his future endeavors.
Martin Shkreli, the
Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC executive who drew criticism in August over a dramatic jump in a prescription drug price, made headlines Thursday
for a different kind of price increase: a seven-fold surge in the shares of a microcap pharmaceutical company.
September 2015: Storm erupts over
Turing's price increase — from $ 13.50 to $ 750 a pill —
for anti-parasitic drug Daraprim.
«Being the majority owner of the company, the way I look at that is they work
for me now,» said Shkreli, chief executive officer of privately held
Turing.
«
Turing's actions may be restraining competition unlawfully, and have the potential to greatly impede access to a drug that is critical
for the public health,» Stock said.
Turing Pharmaceuticals was warned by New York's attorney general that the distribution network
for a rarely used drug, whose 55-fold overnight price hike drew widespread criticism, may violate antitrust laws.
Turing Pharmaceuticals of New York bought the drug from Impax Laboratories in August
for $ 55 million and raised the price.
In August, Impax sold Daraprim to
Turing for $ 55 million, a deal announced the same day
Turing said it had raised $ 90 million from Mr. Shkreli and other investors in its first round of financing.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association sent a joint letter to
Turing earlier this month calling the price increase
for Daraprim «unjustifiable
for the medically vulnerable patient population» and «unsustainable
for the health care system.»
Some doctors questioned
Turing's claim that there was a need
for better drugs, saying the side effects, while potentially serious, could be managed.
Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of
Turing, said that the drug is so rarely used that the impact on the health system would be minuscule and that
Turing would use the money it earns to develop better treatments
for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects.
Turing immediately raised the price to $ 750 a tablet from $ 13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment
for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The
Turing graphics estimate units (GPUs) were ostensible to be designed privately
for calculating cryptocurrency transactions.
As
for Christie, she believes resources — as opposed to manufac -
tured products that can't find a market — will help dig Canada out of the economic hole it's in.
This week, a computer program fooled 33 percent of judges at the University Reading into believing that they were chatting with a real - life 13 - year - old boy from Ukraine, thus passing the «
Turing Test»
for artificial intelligence.
How was Alan
Turing rewarded
for all this?
For example, an automobile may act as a
Turing machine as it determines a new direction of travel from the angle of the steering wheel and its current direction.
Turing's «halting problem» proof is intimately related to (and can be used to prove) other major limitative theorems in logic and mathematics, including Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
for Arithmetic and Church's Theorem
for predicate logic.
The reasons
for choosing
Turing machines are twofold.
The halting problem entails that
for any effective scheme that can decide whether
Turing machines halt or not, there exists a
Turing machine more complex than the scheme — hence the scheme (or a
Turing machine constructed from the scheme) will not necessarily be able to decide its action.
In convincing some of the researchers that Goostman was real, the computer program became the first to pass the
Turing Test
for artificial intelligence.
The
Turing Test, named
for British mathematician Alan
Turing, is often thought of as the benchmark test
for true machine intelligence.
Stored in a sealed container, the cookies will keep
for 3 days at room tempera -
ture or 1 month in the freezer.
However, away from home is where Roy Hodgson and Liverpool have encountered so many problems during their rocky relationship, and possibly the catalyst
for Hodgson's demise should the rumour mill ring
ture and NESV, fronted by John Henry, release the veteran from his duties as Liverpool manager.
and of course... it's so blatantly obvious it's about
turing a profit
for similac.
Try experimenting with
turing your baby over onto their belly after a diaper change (that's gone well) to allow them to experiment with their muscles
for a while.