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by jrapdx3 12y ago
It makes me wonder. For several years the US government, Medicare, and private insurers have been pushing hard for health care providers to adopt Electronic Health Record systems. Now in the current phase "interoperability" of E
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Depends on how you intend to use it. In my scenario I initially planned to dual-boot FBSD/Windows 8.1 but found a different solution. In January 2014 I acquired a MS Surface Pro 2. Display is 1920x1080, and it has 8G ram/245G SS
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The article provides a summary of research on a very complex topic and it appears as usual there's no simple "answer". It seems a pretty safe bet that bilingualism confers some advantages, though the challenge is to try to
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Not a whole lot new in this article, though its "experimental" results confirm well-known phenomena regarding camera lens performance. In particular, small front-element blemishes do not in general significantly degrade optical p
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The differential exposure to UVB, that is, sunlight, was the first thing I thought of reading this article. It is especially likely among people born in the industrial-era 19th century, at a time before the nature of the link between healt
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
On the other side of the continent, my own observations are remarkably similar. The same pattern has been happening here in Portland (Oregon) for at least the last 30 years. Wherever artists congregate, whichever quarter of the region, pre
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Appreciated the article. I've done something sort of similar with a Lisp dialect, Chicken Scheme, partly as a learning tool. Implementing SHA1 turned out not to be too difficult, though doing something more general is a whole other m
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
While all of the images are impressive, I found the hair rendering to be the most interesting. It's very tough to get it right, that is, realistic-appearing. As presented it's very close to that ideal. An attribute of hair that
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Maybe I missed it, but it should be mentioned that there are many variations of bisphenol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol Also worth noting that BPS was reported >10 years ago as producing endocrine disrupt
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Yes I agree very nice images. The article was light on detail, but looking at the results it appears, in common with other x-ray imaging, to be most effective with dense tissue, like bone where it reveals fine detail. Soft tissue isn'
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Interestingly, the article points to "medical marijuana" as the big hurdle to overcome if regulation of recreational cannabis use can succeed. Naturally it leads to questions about exactly what ailments is marijuana known to be a
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Most people I know probably think I'm smart enough, yet I still didn't get the right answers to all the test questions posed in the article. I started to wonder how come. One question giving me no trouble at all was item 5. It w
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I liked this article quite a bit, as I love to program in Lisp (well, Scheme) and I'm a clinician with a lot of experience treating bipolar disorder. That is, the real bipolar, which isn't what the author is talking about. The
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
For a while now I've been interested in learning more about Julia, though not exactly sure yet what use-case I have for it. I guess I wouldn't know until I do study the language enough to figure it out. This tutorial looks promis
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Two thoughts about these Hep C drugs. First, I agree we should celebrate the advent of the potential cure for a devastating viral disease. Second, while the costs are considerable, expense is not out of line with many other treatments that
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
That's close to what I'm doing, except running FreeBSD 10.1 in Hyper-V. It's actually pretty easy to set up since FBSD 10.1 is available for download as a VHD. Just need to specify the VHD image file as the disk to attach w
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with your commentary about such "compartmentalized" approach to systems tasks. The description of narrowmindedness is on target for many domains, certainly I've observed it in medical fields. The probl
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
One thing I'm wondering about is whether running the tests on FreeBSD 10.1 would make a difference. The core FBSD 10 system is compiled with clang. Since Ruby uses system libraries, the question is if a clang vs. gcc compiled Ruby runt
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I have one friend in his late 60's who just bought a new motorcycle. His wife was displeased with his decision though might be tempted to ride along sometimes. Another friend decided to stop riding a few years back because he fel
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
This article fits in with another thread here earlier today where I commented about using any drug entails some finite risk of bad effects. The apparently common belief that "designer drugs" shouldn't be "illegal"
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
In the article, and many of the comments here, the thrust is that illegality is primarily a political matter. I certainly can't argue that isn't a factor, but I can say it's not the only salient issue. All drugs have multipl
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
This is quite a fascinating series of comments by individuals with truly deep understanding of quantum phenomena. What's remarkable is the similarity of the ideas expressed, and I'm quite sure there was no consultation among them
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The article and discussion make me wonder about Portland, OR where I live. The city and metro area have become more population dense over time. In fact, the population of Portland per se has doubled since the 1970's while its bound
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
In Fossil it's not impossible to remove offensive content, though deletion is discouraged. Fossil's policies and content removal procedures are discussed here: http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip&
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
It reminds of years ago when invited to watch a slide show of someone's vacation pictures. It could go on for hours and there was never a graceful way to escape the ordeal. OTOH being offered a pile of 3x5" prints to view was m
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I use Fossil for a few projects. While it's not too complicated to set up Fossil repositories on the web, the Chiselapp "hub" would make it even easier and probably a lot more reliable. One of the things
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
That's my opinion too. I love 3D. I've made lots of 3D images, classic LR pairs, and SIS, but I'm not enamored of RSIS. One thing about the random stereograms commonly produced, including the demos here, is that having t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Seems like interest in potential beneficial effects of hallucinogens has been rising. It's certainly true for ketamine, as it's being studied as a therapy for treatment resistant depression. The results look promising but the ju
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
FWIW, the behavior of call/cc, et. al., is implementation dependent, and memory leakiness varies considerably. I tried the "memory leak" tests in Chicken (4.9.1) using the CSI REPL. The only modification made to the example
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Certainly a reasonable hypothesis in light of the growing body of evidence that inflammatory factors are implicated in MDD and other psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, clinical observation supports the idea. It's quite common during

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