Last Updated on November 29, 2022 by David Vause Tu. 11/29/22 Inexplicitly overslept massively this morning. Missed my run and lifting. Mo. 11/28/22 Woke up
Last Updated on November 27, 2022 by David Vause So way back in 1997, I picked up a book, “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection”
Last Updated on November 20, 2022 by David Vause Machine learning algorithms typically need numerical inputs to build their models. The challenge arises when the
Last Updated on November 20, 2022 by David Vause The DataFrame apply() Function An example using Natural Language Tool Kit moby_raw: is text from nltk.collectionsThe
Last Updated on November 20, 2022 by David Vause We’ve all heard the mantra: we put on weight as we age because our metabolism slows
Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion.
Last Updated on November 19, 2022 by David Vause I came across a study recently….and I need to put a link to it here……about emphasizing
Last Updated on November 19, 2022 by David Vause The code: https://github.com/davevause/public/blob/main/registered_deaths.ipynb In 2020, as the pandemic’s momentum gathered, my employer reduced our workforce to 50%
Fascism has as a basis for self-justification a reliance on a past golden age. This golden age does not need to have actually existed. It can be an imaginary place and time when things were ideal.
Last Updated on September 30, 2022 by David Vause Text Classification supervised learning: machines learn from past instances. training phase: information is gathered, and a
Last Updated on September 30, 2022 by David Vause this is a test Some text: \[ A_{2\times2} = \left[ {\begin{array}{cc} a_{11} & a_{12} \\ a_{21}
I never proselytize running. However, when an acquaintance expressed curiosity about my running and an interest in starting, I thought to create this set of references for her. Our brain makes up 2% or less of our body by weight, yet we spend so much time pursuing careers, distracting it with idle entertainment, educating it, or just polluting it. At the same time, we neglect our body by not making it move or poisoning it with foods laced with sugar, fat, salt, or alcohol. As a result, life expectancy in the U.S. is declining, and prescription drug-managed morbidity is increasing. As a result, the typical U.S. female will spend half her lifetime health care expenditures after age 65.
Last Updated on June 20, 2022 by David Vause (the photo is the procession of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars) I’m coming back from a strange
Last Updated on May 12, 2022 by David Vause (image in the public domain, downloaded from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI#/media/File:Pius_XII_with_Monsignor_Montini.jpg) When Pope Paul VI opined “If you want
As mask mandates are canceled, my wife and I are wondering just what is the real risk out there. The per 100,000 rates on the CDC do not tell me much. I wanted to know how these numbers compared with the U.S. significant health death rates due to heart disease, cancer, injuries, strokes, etc.
Last Updated on April 17, 2022 by David Vause As we push towards 70, people are often surprised by how trim, healthy, and younger we
Last Updated on April 8, 2022 by David Vause An interesting result to an article that I wrote recently, The Effect of Diet Choices on
No one would have anticipated the startling stubborn resistance the Ukrainians put up to defend their country, belaying any argument that they are historically Russian. Equally stunning is the incompetence of the Russian military.
Last Updated on March 17, 2022 by David Vause On occasion, as a counter to not doing anything about our non-existent health care system, a
Last Updated on March 16, 2022 by David Vause Came across an interesting study in PLOS Medicine https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/ on diet and longevity: Estimating impact of
Last Updated on March 7, 2022 by David Vause 3/7 I realized today that COVID and Ukraine are the defining moments for Gen Z as
Little thought gems from americancanary.org and my italicized replies.
Last Updated on February 18, 2022 by David Vause I fully understand that general practitioners have to diagnose and manage to the norms. But there
Last Updated on February 2, 2022 by David Vause Interesting exchange between Michael Barbaro and Dr. Anthony Fauci on The Daily, Jan. 31, 2022: Michael
Last Updated on February 1, 2022 by David Vause Denise kept it simple this morning. She started with egg whites, a slice of Swiss cheese,
Last Updated on January 24, 2022 by David Vause Ok, so maybe it was a little tough getting out there yesterday. It was 17 F
Last Updated on January 21, 2022 by David Vause We had the off yesterday. Denise made a simple lunch, split pea soup, and pita bread
Last Updated on January 18, 2022 by David Vause Before After
Last Updated on January 17, 2022 by David Vause For me, the transformation began at 49, when I started my quest for that first marathon.
Last Updated on January 17, 2022 by David Vause Denise got a bit more ambitious with Beef Bourguignon tonight. We have beef maybe once
Last Updated on January 17, 2022 by David Vause 6/16/2021 Lunch on a Holiday On our unplanned national holiday, we hadn’t thought about meals.
Last Updated on December 27, 2021 by David Vause Our daughter and son-in-law had a luncheon with us on the 25th. My wife and I
Last Updated on December 24, 2021 by David Vause Some photos from our 2017 trip to Colorado. We flew into Albuquerque and planned to drive
Last Updated on December 24, 2021 by David Vause Facebook is, of course, the most highly integrated. It exists primarily as an advertising platform but
Last Updated on December 24, 2021 by David Vause Photos are moments in frozen moments in time. Old photos show us how transient, and eventually
An hour’s exercise a day is magical.
Last Updated on December 19, 2021 by David Vause The December 15, 2021 issue of the New York Times ran an interesting article, “How Exercise
Last Updated on December 15, 2021 by David Vause Americans have a dangerously inflated view of their own health care system. Our politicians lie to
Last Updated on December 13, 2021 by David Vause Today the U.S. surpassed 800,000 Covid related deaths. This was not surprising to me. What surprised
Last Updated on December 13, 2021 by David Vause Reuters reported on December 10 that of 43 of the cases of Omicron identified in the
Last Updated on November 16, 2021 by David Vause Global warming is unabated. The fourth wave of COVID infections beginning in July 2021was completely discretionary:
Last Updated on November 16, 2021 by David Vause 2021 was not the best of years for me. During the 2020 lockdown, I flourished using
Last Updated on November 7, 2021 by David Vause We decided to memorialize the meals of Saturday, October 30, 2021, since it began with a
Last Updated on November 6, 2021 by David Vause Breakfast this morning was a bit more elaborate. Whole whipped eggs with parmesan cheese and spinach.
Last Updated on October 12, 2021 by David Vause Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa
Last Updated on October 2, 2021 by David Vause I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education