boothead

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by boothead 11y ago
That sounds pretty amazing. Like a whole person, holistic tune up. You could call it the body and soul service :-)
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by boothead 11y ago
What do you find impractical about Haskell out of interest?
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by boothead 11y ago
It's this contramap :: (a -> b) -> f b -> f a http://hackage.haskell.org/package/contravariant-1.3.3/docs/Data-Functor-Contravariant.html#v:contramap
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by boothead 11y ago
The code looks good. One thing you might want to consider is using applicative style for parsing. So taggedImage :: Parser BaseImage taggedImage = do name <- many (noneOf ":") reservedOp ":" tag <
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by boothead 11y ago
Here's the other link I mentioned: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/commercialhaskell...
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by boothead 11y ago
I have a write up about the start up stuff here: https://www.fpcomplete.com/business/blog/utilizing-haskell-f... There's also a more in depth version on the commercial haskell mailing list (I can't find
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by boothead 11y ago
If you need anyone to back you up, I would be happy to share my experience building a team of Haskellers, putting it into production at a start up and how Haskell scales to a large enterprise.
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by boothead 11y ago
It would also be interesting to see that as a rough $$$/user. It would be very interesting to see how much you need to be making from each user to cover hosting.
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by boothead 11y ago
I think one big use of blockchain like tech will be in XVA [1], specifically CVA. The faster you settle, the lower the counterparty risk and funding requirements. There's good article (admittedly from a biased party) covering this in i
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A modern architecture for FP(degoes.net)
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by boothead 11y ago
Interesting point on the CIMT test, I hadn't considered that. I'm not sure I've ever had a cholesterol test before, so that might be why it wasn't picked up. :-) My GP seems to be saying the because I'm fit and heal
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by boothead 11y ago
Nobody did, I just phoned my GP and asked him if he could, but he said that's a question I'd have to put to the specialist. My reasoning was that I want to assess whether I already have arterial damage or not, as that will have a
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by boothead 11y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of this and it's pretty scary! That's why I'm certainly not ruling out the drugs. What I want to do it figure out if I do have any damage with a CIMT test. If that shows I'm taking damage then it&#x2
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by boothead 11y ago
Yes, when I demured on the statin it occurred to my doc to check thyroid function (seems the wrong way round to me). My levels were fine.
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by boothead 11y ago
Absolutely, agree with all of that. What I'm moaning about is the absence of desire to explore further. I don't know if I've had high cholesterol for a long time or not or whether it's lifestyle or not, or whether I do a
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by boothead 11y ago
Trigs were fine. Overconsumption is certainly one more thing for me to look at.
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by boothead 11y ago
I don't find him biased because he's balanced, when he doesn't know he says so and he backs up everything he says with rigorous literature. Peter is also the president of NUSI ( http://nusi.org/solving-the-prob
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by boothead 11y ago
Thank you for your perspective. I am very wary of treading the "mainstream medicine doesn't know shit and drugs are bad" path, and for that reason I very much appreciate a contrary view. My plan is to give it a few months and
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by boothead 11y ago
I just had a click round that website. It's just the kind of place that I avoid like the plague. It seems hopelessly biased, as does the author. I didn't come across one link to an scientific study, and it was immediately obvious
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by boothead 11y ago
I had a long reply to your previous comment written out but you deleted before I could post and it got lost. But I guess what I was saying does boil down to this. I don't have a great deal of faith in the shallow, one size fits all, dr
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by boothead 11y ago
Yes you're absolutely correct, I'm waiting for a referral to a specialist at the moment. WRT to my examination though: it didn't go beyond having bloods done. There was no other investigation other than, wow your LDL is reall
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by boothead 11y ago
I'd give Peter Attia a look: http://eatingacademy.com/start-here His writing is incredibly in depth, and he's covered cholesterol extensively.
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by boothead 11y ago
I think this is a bit unkind: > dismissed in a pseudo-intellectual manner by people who know a lot (just not about the subject at hand). I'm the one who's potentially sick here, and this (perhaps wrongly) smacks of appeal to au
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by boothead 11y ago
It would seem so: http://eatingacademy.com/cholesterol-2/random-finding-plus-p... I think that's essentially what a diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia means. Likewise people seem to vary widely in their a
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by boothead 11y ago
Yes, this is a very good point that I try to keep uppermost in my mind. The thing is though that I'm not sure that having a medical degree and several years as a GP actually gives you much more of a grounding in non-drug therapies than
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by boothead 11y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've taken a similar approach: cut all crap out of my diet and now in ketosis (according to urine strips). Ultimately this might not be the fix for me, and I might have to add some other interventions (like replacin
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by boothead 11y ago
Having skimmed over, one indication that my GP isn't up to date is that the lipid test is no longer required to be a fasted test, whereas mine was. Interestingly the specialist lipid clinic has also asked for a fasting test.
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by boothead 11y ago
The problem is now that I'm not even sure whether I should agree with what a "good" or "bad" number is for LDL or TC. The recommended number seems to fall every few years, and I'm unsure how much of that is bas
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by boothead 11y ago
Indeed, that's what I've done. I've completely eliminated sugar and I've increased my veg intake. As of the end of last week urine strips indicate that I'm in ketosis. I'll have another set of bloods done this
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by boothead 11y ago
Thank you for those links! I should have been clearer: what bugged me about my interaction with the GP was that he didn't ask about anything to do with lifestyle/diet. When I went looking on my own - everything I seemed to find fr

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