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Official statistics say we are winning the War on Cancer. Cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and five-year-survival rates have generally been moving in the right direction over the past few d…
David shares the coolest things he learned in 2018. Read here.
My quest for relearning C++ started in November 2018. I have been reading + blogging + writing C++ from then. I would like to reflect on my journey a bit. Before I begin, I would like to state that th
When my oldest son was seven and in second grade, we were living in Kansas. Some time after the school year started, he began licking his ha...
From Medieval sword-fighters to Broca’s brains, or why the hand may hold the key to the link between creativity and mental illness.
As scientists, we can’t continue to approach medical education reform as a neurotransmitter deficiency in medical students. Can we?
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In 2017 the company I worked for in Toronto got acquired by Yelp. The software engineers in my company (including myself) were asked to move to San Francisco. At the end of 2017 we moved, and I spent most of 2018 there. With the year coming to an end, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on my time there.
Master the Feynman Technique: Nobel laureate's 4-step learning method to understand anything deeply through teaching, simplification, and systematic review.
We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.
Mostly it's a testimony that it's possible to have a successful career in computer science without taking military funding. My position has its roots in the Vietnam War, when I was a conscientious objector, did alternative service instead of submitting to the draft, and joined the Society of Friends (Quakers). During…
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
Far below the Antarctic circle, I watch a woman cry real tears because she can’t get gluten-free toast.
The home of typing by Alice Bartlett 👩🏻💻
What I've written on the internet has reached millions of people and today I'm opening up the kimono, here's all I know about blogging.
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
We are not taught how to learn in school, we are taught how to pass tests. The spacing effect is a far more effective way to learn and retain information that works with our brain instead of against it. Find out how to use it here.
I recently purchased an original Macintosh User Manual (thanks eBay !). I had seen one at a garage sale, and was struck by how it had to explain a total paradigm shift in interacting with computers. I figured I could learn something about helping make innovation happen.
Hey, it's Zamenhofa Tago, otherwise known as Esperanto Book Day. Read on to learn more about the international language and why it's so cool.
Why you should think twice before publishing your content on Medium.com in 2020 and beyond.
A few weeks ago my most popular repository on GitHub was crowbar , a Rust crate that I’m particularly proud of. It wasn’t necessarily good , but it did something interesting. It has 168 stars.
