For what’s likely to be my last summary of the 1811 tweets from the San Diego Pain Summit 2017 using various metrics of tweet importance, I created a ranked word-pair vocabulary from the body of tweets, where each word-pair had to occur within single tweets. With this pair-vocabulary in place, I then summed up the word-pair […]
This post is a follow-up to yesterday’s “Things” from the Pain Summit (Literally); another means of extracting information from the 1811 tweets from the San Diego Pain Summit 2017. This time I took the 100 top words from the Pain Summit tweets, excluding the first word, which was pain. Other than as a consistency check, […]
A couple of weeks ago, I spent two days at the San Diego Pain Summit, to listen, tweet, and archive tweets from the conference and adjoining workshops. The purpose of the 2017 summit, as was the case for the prior two years, is to bridge pain research and manual therapy. I could say that it […]
We live in a strange age; an age in which science and technology are providing us new knowledge and capabilities in many areas of endeavor but also an age in which a significant number of people are rejecting scientific thinking in favor of belief-based narratives. While the scientific process stems from observations leading to conceptual […]
Introduction The recent Society of Mathematical Biology annual meeting, 25-28 July, in Knoxville TN was an interesting interdisciplinary journey. Attendees had backgrounds in biology, medicine, mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, ecology, and public health. Coming from my own computational physics background, I’m doing a few reflective posts on what struck me during the conference. The […]
In reading through Ian Stewart’s The Mathematics of Life, I came across an interesting statement on models and modeling (pp. 273-274). It speaks both to the approximate nature of models and to the observation that exactness is neither the prerequisite for usefulness nor even always desirable. These three models of the foot-and-mouth epidemic show how […]
I was noticing in the tweets coming out of the American Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans that NASA and NOAA have renamed the recently launched polar orbiter, NPOESS preparatory project, the Suomi NPP, after the late Verner Suomi. This brought back a memory confirming in my own mind the suitability of the choice. Years […]
This past week I had a rare opportunity to explore using the virtual world of Second Life (SL) as an immersive means of visualizing and exploring real life topography. Generally, a SL sim already has set terrain and arbitrarily replacing that would break everything developed on it. When a friend is obtaining a new sim […]
Models and simulations of many kinds are tools for dealing with reality; they are as old as humanity itself. Humans have always used mental models to better understand reality, to make plans, to consider different possibilities, to share their ideas with others, to try out changes and alternatives, to develop blueprints for realization of some […]
I recently had a massage teaching colleague ping me about: 1) Why we need mitochondria? and 2) How many molecules of ATP are used per second in typical muscle contractions? Both questions are a matter of energy, thus piquing my underlying physicist nature. Glucose to ATP The first question really was really along the lines […]
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