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vurtdee | 1 year ago | on: Pimp My Man

Seeing “man” capitalized in this context was rather jarring.

Color in man is nice, but the real thing man pages are lacking are practical examples, ideally of each flag, ala clojuredocs.

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/for

“for” example ;P

vurtdee | 1 year ago | on: Ironclad link between red meat and cancer identified

This research, and increasing its entrance into the zeitgeist, is also valuable to give doctors a foundation to “prescribe” diet changes.

When confronted with chemo, it has been my experience that, doctors are reluctant to talk about nutrition. (I speculate, over a concern for their own ignorance, ala risking getting caught up in fad or woo science)

Sometimes even going hard in the other direction, saying “eat whatever you want!”, when study after study show a positive correlation with nutrition based methods targeting specific cancers and complementing certain chemo “cocktail”s.

vurtdee | 1 year ago | on: Yes, we did discover the Higgs

> This bump is what physicists call a resonance. It follows directly from energy and momentum conservation and special relativity that we teach first year undergraduates (hardly the ivory towers).

> This bump or resonance is intimately tied to what physicists mean when they say ‘particle’. If you dig a bit deeper, the term resonance is also tied to one of the most elementary physical systems: the simple harmonic oscillator. Sure, when you treat these things quantum mechanically, it gets more sophisticated, but my point is it doesn’t require highfalutin mathematics and quantum field theory to say that we discovered a new particle at the LHC.

Goes on to completely omit this apparently trivial mathematics.

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