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My best effort to write something worth reading as I live and make sense of the world

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Brief reviews of books, films, music, art, and food I’ve experienced lately

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A Saturday at SickKids During COVID-19

As I lifted my son Felix up over my shoulder for his standard burping stint after our midnight feed last Friday evening, he started to cough. I paused: normally he would burp, maybe spit, and the limit have some milk dripping out of his nostril. But he didn’t cough. I listened to him after placing…

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Why quamproxime?

Quam proxime means "as near as may be" in Latin. Isaac Newton uses the term frequently in his Principia to describe the gap between evidence and observations and theory. I found it a fitting title to express my goal to achieve precision and soul.

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Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic Universe. In this match, surprises are expected. Everything that has already happened must have been inevitable.
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