fwiw, I think it's good to contemplate death and sad stories like this one remind us of it. If we all took 5 minutes each day to think about our own death, and that it can happen to us at virtually any moment, the world would be different. Better, I assume.
From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
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Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#32natural /// news dot /// com may be useful for health crisis. like the various kernels, no guarantees.
1.) like the Wall Street hedge fund operators who get brain cancer from overuse of the cell phones, etc modern day life is stressful on YOUR HEALTH and even YOUR LIFE.
2.) that's why I recommend a special health database and PEER assitance non-profit. PLEASE START A GITHUB NOW!
3.) There are many professors who will be mourned, as Prof. Harper of the FREE BOOK ON ML is stil surviving cancer, as far as I know.
4.) However, apologies to Plato. the LIKELY MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS your family, some 'so-called fickle friends' and THE HACKERS THAT RUN THE NET and this forum.
5.) So, I do not cry over the death of plato, socrates? who cares? I do cry over the FAMILY that builds and hacks the internet. Brother, or Sister.
6.) Some of my fellows have bad habits. lack of exercise, taichi, even raw, fermented food and avoidance of
7.)avoid too many death marches as per Yourdon book. but I personally like them.
Summary: so START the Health GITHUB for HACKERS ONLY. Yes, your source code and build engineering plans will be ranked.
PS. without the code and self-education, I would be still living in the Matrix of the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH. Taking 'the red pill' and just doing LEGAL things means
a.) my life is about serving 'the net and others' b.) it's a fun hobby but stressful at times. c.) i continually amaze myself in doing things that have never been done before --- BECAUSE HACKING or just thinking out loud BUILDS CONFIDENCE and UNITY and
oh yes. check out patients like me and other databases.
PPS. As I grow older and closeer to another 'life' - no I am not now a Buddhist, who comes back as a hacker dog and BARKS WHEN HE SMELLS BAD CODE THAT RUNS THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ... START THE GITHUB now dedicated to 'hacker health.'
PPS. one of my later spin-offs may be the standing desk. did you know that estimated 8 hours CHAIR TIME >> 1 hour DEATH closer?
PPS. for those who demand practical proof: here is the test. The 'long lived' other than the Chi Gung Farmers of the East are Mr. Jack La Lanne - exercise HACKER who also loved meeting people and telling jokes. - laughter.
so, hacker survey 1.) most are overworked 2.) lot of chair time == DEATH 3.) tendency to be anti-social and avoid big meetings 4.) etc... milage will vary
IMHO. your opinions please. Prof. Harper is illustration only. He knows not of me nor I of him. BUT I AM STILL STUDYING HIS FREE BOOK and I IHOPE I CAN actually learn ML BEFORE I die
Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
X-ray and CT imaging however slighly increases the cancer risk. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/radiationexposurea...
I thought a MRI is both more accurate and safer.
MRI does have some caveats - it's not available to people with ferromagnetic material embedded within them, and not suitable for those who are claustrophobic. Also CT scans tend to be more accurate for bone, and are quicker to perform so less susceptible to the subject moving about.
There's also the issue that, at present, MRI scans are considerably more expensive than CT.
Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#34Such a moving post. Really sad. I had to hold back the tears in the middle of the office reading it! Always seems to happen to the best people.
Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#35If people donate nothing towards ameliorating diseases of ageing[0], then what's to be expected? People die. People get sick. Everyone you, and I, know is probably going to suffer and perish. The poor soul in the blog post sounds like he got struck down in his prime; but rest assured, your time is coming in a matter of decades. Accept death/disease or do something about it; but don't be shocked when it happens! Stati…
> If people donate nothing towards ameliorating diseases of ageing[0], then what's to be expected?
The unfortunate chap lauded in the OP has been afflicted with a cancer of the cerebellum, not specifically a disease of aging. Cancer research has an immense amount of funding, certainly in comparison to many other widely prevalent diseases.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. My wife has yearly scans because of a tumour supressor gene mutation and last year they thought they spotted something on the ultrasound, so sent her for a CT. CT showed that it was pretty bad, que months of stressing and worrying about what was going to happen. Turns out it was a false positive, caused by an accessory spleen looking like a tumour. False positives do happen, and they can be pretty devastating -…
If you worry that much about a false positive, I'm sorry for you, but you have no idea how much worse things may get. Many people don't get to complain about a false positive! Stressing and worrying are both several orders of magnitude better than suffering and dying. Source: My case wasn't a false positive.
In the context of full body scanning: false positives include spots on the lung.
So now you have someone who thinks they have might lung cancer, when in fact they probably have almost harmless scars from chicken pox.
But what do you do if you think you have lung cancer? Do you go and get biopsies? The stress from that result is significant and shouldn't be dismissed as something trivial.
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#37How long until a daily brain scan and body scan is a part of everyone's routine, the same way brushing your teeth is? Problems like these are untreatable if left for too long, but if caught early, there's sometimes hope. The solution seems to be to develop as many types of passive scanners as possible. The problem is false positives. But wasting a month needlessly visiting the doctor doesn't seem that bad.
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Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. My wife has yearly scans because of a tumour supressor gene mutation and last year they thought they spotted something on the ultrasound, so sent her for a CT. CT showed that it was pretty bad, que months of stressing and worrying about what was going to happen. Turns out it was a false positive, caused by an accessory spleen looking like a tumour. False positives do happen, and they can be pretty devastating -…
If you worry that much about a false positive, I'm sorry for you, but you have no idea how much worse things may get. Many people don't get to complain about a false positive! Stressing and worrying are both several orders of magnitude better than suffering and dying. Source: My case wasn't a false positive.
People aren't worrying over a false positive. They don't know it's a false positive. In that moment their worry is just as genuine as yours is.
Re: From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
#39If people donate nothing towards ameliorating diseases of ageing[0], then what's to be expected? People die. People get sick. Everyone you, and I, know is probably going to suffer and perish. The poor soul in the blog post sounds like he got struck down in his prime; but rest assured, your time is coming in a matter of decades. Accept death/disease or do something about it; but don't be shocked when it happens! Stati…
> If people donate nothing towards ameliorating diseases of ageing[0], then what's to be expected? The unfortunate chap lauded in the OP has been afflicted with a cancer of the cerebellum, not specifically a disease of aging. Cancer research has an immense amount of funding, certainly in comparison to many other widely prevalent diseases.
Diseases of ageing include cancers. Healthy ageing == dramatically reduced incidences of cancer.
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#40I know I'll get downwoted for this, nevertheless .. I don't know how about Steven and Nicola, however I myself would mind having certain intimate moments shared with general public (e.g. overheard phone conversations, etc ..) Having sad that, I feel for Steve's and Nicola family. It's always tough.
No need for the preface - it's a fair thing to say. I hemmed and hawed about whether to post this article at all for this exact reason. In the end I decided that if I was going to post it I should be both respectful and truthful. I probably could've worded it better. I probably could've added some disclaimer that this is true as far as I remember, but my memory is fallible. [Edit, as I hit post too soon]: Either way,…
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