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by keithflower 11y ago
Great to see this article about Neil, a warm and brilliant guy - I had the chance to meet him personally the last time the joint AMS meetings were in San Francisco. Also, when I submitted a simple integer sequence[1] to OEIS on Thanksgivin
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by keithflower 12y ago
Fascinating stuff, will delve more into it as I'm able, but kudos to Jeremy and Matt (and JC for some of the programming work) - all outstanding former colleagues! Congratulations, you guys! A while ago I briefly mulled over a loosely
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by keithflower 12y ago
I have no idea where you get the idea that Don Knuth opposes Lockhart's approach. I guess we'd not know without asking him, but having waded through much of TAOCP, Concrete Mathematics (a book filled to the brim with the kind of d
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by keithflower 12y ago
Reasonable question. They did comment on the issue in their discussion: "We examined whether age was an important factor in producing the baseline differences we observed by comparing the three youngest practitioners with the controls
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by keithflower 12y ago
A tool I like in this space is Stephen Chang's Parsack, "a basic Parsec-like monadic parser combinator library implementation in Racket." http://stchang.github.io/parsack/parsack.html
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by keithflower 12y ago
It's a minimal version of Kanren, which was originally developed by Dan Friedman and Oleg Kiselyov: http://kanren.sourceforge.net/ I give a simple example of a toy use of Kanren and made a few observations about logic
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by keithflower 12y ago
What did I do? There was nothing that had to be done. I listened to the voices, the many voices, vague, distant, but astonishingly human, the Havasu Creek. I heard the doors creak open, the doors creak shut, the old forgotten cabins where
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by keithflower 12y ago
What you describe is a primitive reflex called the walk/step reflex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_reflexes#Walking.2Fst... It is not a component of the Apgar.
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by keithflower 12y ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-tac-toe", Sussman replied.
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by keithflower 12y ago
No. Some conditions are overdiagnosed, and there is a too-cozy relationship between medicine and pharma that is disturbing to many of us. However, to make a diagnosis based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) criteria almost without
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The Design and Implementation of BER MetaOCaml(okmij.org)
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by keithflower 12y ago
I've used some of their data for tracking and visualizing locations of methamphetamine-related incidents in the city: http://keithflower.org/welcome/default/meth_timemap
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by keithflower 12y ago
There is nothing "nitpicking" about my correction of your misinformation (which you've now edited), and no, your point doesn't stand. Taking an antibiotic does not kill ALL bacteria in a host, which is what you said befo
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by keithflower 12y ago
Please stop spreading harmful misinformation. Antibiotics do not and never have destroyed "all bacteria". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antibiotics
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by keithflower 12y ago
A link to the actual paper (full text): http://www.cmajopen.ca/content/2/2/E69.full
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by keithflower 12y ago
The full paper[1] addresses this to some extent (my emphasis added below): "Accurate estimates of the lifetime history (prevalence) of traumatic brain injury within the general population are scarce, which makes it difficult to compare
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by keithflower 13y ago
Here's a little discussion about some of the issues in computer-aided diagnosis: Historical attempts at decision support include Mycin for diagnosing infectious blood diseases, which contained assertions and rules in the form if IF-TH
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by keithflower 13y ago
Probably it was given at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, where Feynman regularly gave lectures: http://books.google.com/books?id=j42RD66g72oC&pg=PT384&lpg=P...
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by keithflower 13y ago
Nothing "crazy" about taking control of your life to make it healthier and happier. I've never regretted taking less money to live in places I love and work on things that interested me. Good on you.
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by keithflower 13y ago
Did you mean you are a self-styled 'nitpicker', and not "knitpicker"? ...wink... 'Emergent' is well-established in medicine to mean exactly how it was used in the linked article. There is nothing 'trendy&#
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by keithflower 13y ago
Maybe. But the ERs I work in rarely have one patient rooms, and the patients have a tendency to wander.
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by keithflower 13y ago
Well, here's Stedman (a standard medical dictionary) on 'emergent' from...a hundred years ago: emergent 1. Arising suddenly and unexpectedly and calling for quick judgment and prompt action. http://books.google.c
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by keithflower 13y ago
1. Or QR on the patient's wrist identifier. 2) Agreed OT, but "emergent" to roughly mean "urgent" is pretty established in medicine. Here's a more thorough discussion: http://blog.amamanualofstyle.co
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by keithflower 13y ago
I'm a physician. While musing about clinical reasoning based on robust tools like Kanren and miniKanren, I wrote a few thoughts that parallel the article: "Much if not all of the current talk around clinical software unfortunately
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by keithflower 13y ago
1) Just sit with him. Listen. That is a tremendous gift. 2) Tell him to pay no attention to "chances of survival." 3) Ask him to work closely with physician(s). Have him write down his questions before he goes in for his visits. G
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by keithflower 13y ago
Why is that? Alcoholism is very much a disease. Do you hesitate to take advice from people with cardiovascular disease?
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by keithflower 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. The intent in that version was to mimic Marc's (Gambit author Marc Feeley) past iOS version as closely as possible (via webview) - I'll see what he's doing with his latest iOS version and also try to
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by keithflower 13y ago
Post title misleads: the article does not say the Lakota have "adopted" this currency.
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by keithflower 13y ago
The Gambit interpreter (REPL) itself also runs on the iPhone https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gambit-repl/id434534076?mt=8 and on the Android platform (updating it with the latest version of Gambit is on my to
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by keithflower 13y ago
So now you're agreeing that known "stressors" like dirty air are in fact problematic. Why don't you tell us more about the "open questions" of how safe dirty needles and dirty nicotine delivery systems are. Now

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