Pandemic

Covid-19 Data

People are collecting and aggregating data in many different ways. These are the sites that I find most interesting: Blood levels of apelin, which is an important regulator in bringing both blood pressure and inflammation down, dropped close to zero in the authors’ ARDS model and increased 20 times with CBD and hemp flowers. When …

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Pandemic

Covid-19 Obituary

The response of the United States has been horrifying and I now believe I’m living in a failed state. I wrote a post on Medium about wearing a fucking mask. Now, we can watch in horror as we lose world treasures on a daily basis – NY Times Coronavirus Obituary

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Technology

Trends of 2020

Keeping up with my trends thing from two years ago, I’m going to write about technology changes that I find interesting. This is more hindsight than prediction, but I’m finding this WFH thing interesting. I was always the person in the office every day no matter what because I simply cannot get things done at …

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Technology

Expert Beginner

I found a very interesting series of articles on the Dunning-Kruger effect acting as a barrier to advancement; An anti-pattern seen in tech companies called The Dead Sea effect; And finally why developers switch jobs frequently. That is all.

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Towards the End of Thought

Apple no longer allows RSS into their News app. The final nail in the RSS coffin was the discontinuation of Google Reader, this is basically pissing on that grave. These days, people no longer care. They think getting their news from Twitter or Facebook is the way to do it. Algorithmic curation is the fastest …

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