I had a scare on PayPal recently. I have just a few accounts that I consider very high value. PayPal is one of them. I
Author: David Vause
Text Classification supervised learning: machines learn from past instances. training phase: information is gathered, and a model is built. inference phase: model is applied. unlabeled
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I missed my run on Tuesday and spent the rest of the week trying to catch up against commonly accepted running advice. I wound up
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.
An interesting result to an article that I wrote recently, The Effect of Diet Choices on Longevity, the research found that a diet devoid of
Came across an interesting study in PLOS Medicine https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/ on diet and longevity: Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study. Based
3/7 I realized today that COVID and Ukraine are the defining moments for Gen Z as they grow into adults. Defining moments are always ones
Little thought gems from americancanary.org and my italicized replies.
I fully understand that general practitioners have to diagnose and manage to the norms. But there is nothing ordinary about spending nearly your entire life
Interesting exchange between Michael Barbaro and Dr. Anthony Fauci on The Daily, Jan. 31, 2022: Michael Barbaro: “Aren’t the covid cautious fighting their own war
Denise kept it simple this morning. She started with egg whites, a slice of Swiss cheese, and sauteed onions with portabella mushrooms. The treat is
Ok, so maybe it was a little tough getting out there yesterday. It was 17 F with a wind chill of 7 F. I was
We had the off yesterday. Denise made a simple lunch, split pea soup, and pita bread sandwich. The soup is homemade. The pita is whole
The DataFrame apply() Function An example using Natural Language Tool Kit moby_raw: is text from nltk.collectionsThe first assignment of sentences results in a string list
Denise got a bit more ambitious with Beef Bourguignon tonight. We have beef maybe once a week.
For me, the transformation began at 49, when I started my quest for that first marathon. To some extent, it was a rebirth or a
Our daughter and son-in-law had a luncheon with us on the 25th. My wife and I are not Christians, so the holiday trappings have only
Some photos from our 2017 trip to Colorado. We flew into Albuquerque and planned to drive through Colorado from the south to Denver. Along the
The December 15, 2021 issue of the New York Times ran an interesting article, “How Exercise Affects Metabolism and Weight Loss,” which reports on newly
Americans have a dangerously inflated view of their own health care system. Our politicians lie to us and leverage our reptilian tribal brains by telling
Today the U.S. surpassed 800,000 Covid related deaths. This was not surprising to me. What surprised me was that 600,000 of these deaths were among
Reuters reported on December 10 that of 43 of the cases of Omicron identified in the U.S., 34 of them were in fully vaccinated people,
2021 was not the best of years for me. During the 2020 lockdown, I flourished using the time off to work out and study data
Global warming is unabated. The fourth wave of COVID infections beginning in July 2021was completely discretionary: an epidemic of the un-vaxxed. It is still amazingly
Breakfast this morning was a bit more elaborate. Whole whipped eggs with parmesan cheese and spinach. Hash browns made from fresh, whole potatoes. Morning Star
We decided to memorialize the meals of Saturday, October 30, 2021, since it began with a breakfast that is unusual for us.
Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa overlooking Santa Margherita, I remarked that Columbus had apparently
I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education and people with liberal arts or engineering degrees. The
One quarter remains.
Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center to contact Americans stranded in Afghanistan and provide them
Dopamine is evolution’s reward system for behaviors that increased the reproductive success of hunter-gatherers, long-distance hunting and gathering, eating high calories foods, and sex. Today we no longer persistence hunt, but regular exercisers enjoy the rewards of the long hunt.
There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like
The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for
It is painfully obvious to anyone with a background in evolutionary biology. In biology, the only thing that matters is reproduction. Given a population with
If it existed before 1500, it’s probably not a highly processed food.
15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.
I have noted elsewhere that the average male between 18-35 years has 40-44% muscle. This drops to 32-35% for the 56-75 year cohort. A 170-pound
Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent president who lost to a rival he called “sleepy”.
It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.
So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during this time of financial calamity for so many. They’ve
Again. I do it because it offers me the opportunity to be a measurably better person in eight months than I am now. I do
A singular feature of NOVA is its identification of ultra-processed food and drink products. These are not modified foods, but formulations mostly of cheap industrial sources of dietary energy and nutrients plus additives, using a series of processes (hence ‘ultra-processed’). All together, they are energy-dense, high in unhealthy types of fat, refined starches, free sugars and salt, and poor sources of protein, dietary fibre and micronutrients. Ultra-processed products are made to be hyper-palatable and attractive, with long shelf-life, and able to be consumed anywhere, any time. Their formulation, presentation and marketing often promote overconsumption.
I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to me to be too local, too provincial.
I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there
When JFK spoke the words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” an entire nation understood.