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by keithflower 13y ago
Please. Thalidomide is a good anti-nausea drug. Women who take thalidomide during pregnancy are at lower risk for nausea. Now, do you want to argue whether or not "light thalidomide" exposure during pregnancy is bad is an "op
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by keithflower 13y ago
No. In no way is it an "open question' if "light smoking" is even bad for you: "light and intermittent smoking pose substantial risks; the adverse health outcomes parallel dangers observed among daily smoking, parti
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by keithflower 13y ago
"The development of the new tool is an example of the unanticipated benefits of basic research."
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by keithflower 13y ago
Inspiring. Her website is still up: http://normallyodd.com/
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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Zina Lahr(outsideonline.com)
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by keithflower 13y ago
I reckon your kind, single posting to HN from a "design engineer in the nuclear business"... who thinks the events leading to a partial nuclear meltdown at a LWR like TMI reflect a kind of engineering triumph and the kind of stati
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by keithflower 13y ago
Uh, why exactly are you arguing ad hominem about "Cringely" rather than about what "Cringely" (and most everyone else) concluded about TMI? So Cringely points out widely acknowledged problems at TMI, including human fact
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by keithflower 13y ago
You're right. I don't think I understand your point because I don't think you know what your point is. Are you trying to advance the theory that management had no hand in the terrible decision-making around TMI, including t
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by keithflower 13y ago
Wow, NASA-think redux! I really don't think you want to use Three-Mile Island as some sort of exemplar of safe technology: The lessons of Three Mile Island have been, for the most part, forgotten. The nuclear industry changed and imp
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by keithflower 13y ago
Yeah, big cause of PEA is hypoxia - delivery of this substance directly to an end organ's (brain) vasculature reliably and quickly (albeit in the absence of efficient circulation ) is an interesting thought.
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by keithflower 13y ago
Oxygenation is only part of the problem, so I'm a little wary of the title "Injectable oxygen keeps people alive without breathing" [emphasis added]. EDIT: The actual paper's [2] title and abstract reads " Boostin
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by keithflower 13y ago
Another interesting platform for working with probabilistic programming is Bher/Church: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church and Oleg's and Ken Shan's fantastic OCaml library Hansei: ht
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by keithflower 13y ago
Geiser is a great tool for working with Scheme, and the author jao (José A Ortega Ruiz) is a genuinely good guy. His old blog at http://programming-musings.org is full of Scheme goodness, and he has another site devoted to Emacs
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by keithflower 13y ago
"...Dirac was absorbed in writing his Ph.D. thesis, a compact presentation of his vision of quantum mechanics. Confident though he was of his understanding of the theory, he knew as he wrote his thesis that it was not the whole story,
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by keithflower 13y ago
Physician here: maybe you could enlighten us all on studies showing "genetics" are "strongest" determinants of "your risk for acquiring HIV." Are you actually trying to advance the theory that the "genetic
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by keithflower 13y ago
From a medical perspective, I'd worry that many of these folks suffer from major depressive disorder, social anxiety disorder, or obsessive compulsive disorder. This is not to pathologize behaviors people choose which don't interf
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by keithflower 14y ago
Related: California has placed the Savings, Accountability and Full Enforcement for California Act (the SAFE California Act) on the November 2012 ballot. The move to get this on the ballot was led by a former warden of California's San Quen
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by keithflower 14y ago
Brilliant fellow, and Pascal is also a genuinely kind human being. He responded thoughtfully and in detail to several questions I posted to comp.lang.lisp about some arcane ideas around reflection. On numerous occasions he's tried to patch
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by keithflower 15y ago
I tend to use Python and Num/SciPy for as much as I can, then reach for RPy: http://rpy.sourceforge.net/
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by keithflower 15y ago
Info on the Android port is here: http://apps.keithflower.org/?page_id=152 I'm about to release an update to match the iOS version accompanying Gambit v4.6.5 (as close as I can get).
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by keithflower 15y ago
A "link" and "correlation" is already well-established[1][2][3][4], and the toxicity of clothianidin in honeybees is not the issue here. The LD50 for the substance and many other chemicals is very well-known for honeybees. The paper investi
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by keithflower 15y ago
The January 2012 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society presents a comprehensive review article disagreeing that there is "plenty of evidence" women are less likely to be very good at math based on "natural causes" (whate
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by keithflower 15y ago
I'd be interested in reading about this, but not interested enough to waste my time giving you an email address.
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by keithflower 15y ago
It's tough beginning teaching. I teach some science classes to grad students (who I've actually been incredibly impressed with, so my experience is a bit different). Here are a few of my thoughts/questions: -First, thanks for your teaching.
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by keithflower 15y ago
From the linked NY Times article: "Novartis, for instance, makes both branded and generic versions of Ritalin; Shire Pharmaceuticals does the same for Adderall XR. In both cases, the companies have ensured that supplies of branded drugs are
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by keithflower 15y ago
No idea what you're talking about. I've used namecheap for years - cheap, minimal interface, just works. No nonsense.
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by keithflower 15y ago
I switched everyone I know months ago when their coward of a CEO was doing his elephant-slaughtering thing. Just sent out another batch of emails to other friends and colleagues who may still use them, and will help them switch.
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by keithflower 15y ago
The article naysayers correctly point out: Mobile technology presents providers "with a very long list of legal concerns," they point out. "Privacy and security of patient data, compliance with state and federal laws (including Stark and a
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by keithflower 15y ago
"Over the phone, the clinics all sounded like places you'd take a pork chop to be examined, not a human breast, not a person, and not me." Our technology is improving. Rigorous, evidence-based practice is the standard of care. And yet we of
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by keithflower 15y ago
> In all my years writing C, I have never seen a C/C++ header which does not include the other headers it needs in order to compile cleanly. > He's right; nested includes are a modern C idiom. No doubt they are found a lot. The requ

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