"A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
(Frank Herbert, Dune - 1965)
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I was a teenager when I first read Dune, waiting in the queues of the Stubai glacier ski-lifts, in Austria. At the top of the glacier, a short hike would bring you to the saddle and the view from there soars over an untouched snowy plain, beckoning, sparkling, dipping into the Windach Valley high above Sölden, and the view leaps across the slope and continues all the way to the blue peaks of Italy's Dolomites that make the horizon. I stuck my skis in a drift, sat on a heap of scree, chewed on an apple and read.
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So this is a beginning. Hello, Mastodon. Are the balances correct? The thing is, one cannot know that, at the beginning. Such knowing is for the end. Until then, there is a path. Let's see where it leads to.
In lieu of an #introduction just tags: #Bioinformatics and #ComputationalBiology, programming and teaching #R, #DataScience, #Complexity and #SelfOrganization and #UofT ... but also #MolecularLinguistics and more recent published work in #PhilosophyOfArt, #ConfucianEthics and #JapaneseAesthetics - jointly with @yi_chen .
