keithflower

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by keithflower 2y ago
John, I've been following your work for years (including back in the old lemonodor years). I just wanted to say thank you here, for sharing your expertise for all on this topic, and for all the other tremendous work you've done. W
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by keithflower 5y ago
I feel for you my friend. From my experience, having young kids is a very difficult time for relationships. Couple that with all the challenges around the pandemic and other current craziness, and things get even tougher. From my experience
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by keithflower 6y ago
I'm betting on some kind of glitch on the State Department website, but it's an interesting historical note that when Richard Nixon formally resigned in August 1974, he did so via a brief letter to then Secretary of State Kissinge
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by keithflower 6y ago
I support this ban. I’m a physician. In addition to this president inciting a riot, this president and his supporters are complicit in using social media to promote unscientific, self-serving views that strike at the health of my patients a
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by keithflower 6y ago
Looks like they are fixing this, but good grief, isn't anyone in Stanford's well-paid hierarchy looking out for these young doctors? Residents, nurses, and other front-line healthcare workers should be receiving these inoculations
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by keithflower 6y ago
“Capturing the Unicorn” - the story of The Unicorn Tapestries and the mathematician brothers Gregory and David Chudnovsky: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/11/050411fa_fact
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by keithflower 6y ago
Having followed this story for some time, I grieve with the family as much as an outsider can. This brave family's story is an inspiration. Dr. Might's linked post includes many ways to help honor Bertrand's legacy, and to he
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by keithflower 6y ago
Thank you for all of it, Dr. Graham! What a life.
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by keithflower 6y ago
Worthy of HN border acknowledgment, please.
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by keithflower 8y ago
Emacs with org-mode.
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by keithflower 9y ago
Your selective quotation misses the main point of Wallace's piece. He is wrestling with the ethics of causing gratuitous suffering. The 'grasshopper' quote is Wallace actually quoting the Maine Lobster Promotion Council, poss
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by keithflower 9y ago
There's a wealth of fascinating information including book series on deep space communication at the JPL DESCANSO Deep Space Communications and Navigation Center of Excellence: https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov
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by keithflower 9y ago
See a physician.
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by keithflower 10y ago
Ask permission to talk to the outgoing manager. If they balk at transparency, you'll know where the "communications" problem lay.
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by keithflower 10y ago
The rotation I did through a hospice service when I was a fourth year medical student was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. Hospice staff are experts at effective pain-wrangling (pain in all its many manifestations), and, a
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by keithflower 10y ago
Note to tech world: THIS is how you take responsibility, make things right when mistakes happen, and look out for the communities we live in.
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by keithflower 10y ago
Please try again. Please see a physician.
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by keithflower 11y ago
President Obama just tweeted: "Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."
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by keithflower 11y ago
Dr. Kirsch's (a psychologist) work has been valuable, with some justified criticisms of antidepressant therapy and their trials. But his work did not show that antidepressants are clinically ineffective. Dr. Kirsch's analysis show
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by keithflower 11y ago
> Can you point me to a "guide to reading 'Zen'" or something similar which can show me where I'm going wrong? "Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance": http://www.amazon.com&
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by keithflower 11y ago
Mesmerizing...really well done. Thanks for sharing, and for the book recommendation!
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by keithflower 11y ago
Neil's a fantastic human and great mathematician - I'll just post my same comment from the last time a story came up about him here: Great to see this article about Neil, a warm and brilliant guy - I had the chance to meet him per
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by keithflower 11y ago
Sadly, we sold it before I went off to school. But I later bought a bright orange '64 Triumph Spitfire ($400!), and spent many interesting hours tweaking the engine (with its infamous twin carburetors), until an unfortunate failure in
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by keithflower 11y ago
Great work that evoked a lot of memories for me. When I was 15, my dad and I bought an Austin Healey Sprite from a junkyard, which in addition to the engine under the bonnet also happened to have a complete spare engine in the passenger sea
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by keithflower 11y ago
History of Lisp, by J McCarthy: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html The Evolution of Lisp (Steele and Gabriel): http://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf The
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by keithflower 11y ago
Your comments about ADHD are completely wrong, as any parent of a child (male or female) with a bonafide diagnosis of the disorder (or adult with the disorder) can tell you.
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by keithflower 11y ago
"Jared Diamond....a terrible scientist". What? No. I completely disagree, as would many others, and I've frankly never read a more balanced work than GGS. But perhaps you could go ahead and educate us scientifically on what i
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by keithflower 11y ago
The parent's humorous wish is granted by the wizards of MIT Scheme (and, I daresay, even more fulfilled by Racket): "Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Gu
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by keithflower 11y ago
This is a great article about Racket's advanced macro systems. Greg has done great work, from Cakewalk days right up to the present. He is generous, kind, and a wonderful teacher. Many of us working with Racket are using his fantastic
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by keithflower 11y ago
Ask the firm what their budget is for the position. Negotiate from there.

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