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peter @sandwall
Joined January 2009
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peter@sandwall
5 Mar 2024
"A wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird?"
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Probability is prospective, statistics is retrospective, and inference is the intersection.
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Vala Afshar
@ValaAfshar
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire
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peter@sandwall
9 Mar 2025
"A stream cannot rise higher than its source; pure mathematics and immaculate judgment combined cannot cure the inaccuracy of erroneous original data." - Jacob Dodge (1892)
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peter@sandwall
23 Jan 2025
Less information may lead to improved decision making. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.
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peter@sandwall
14 Jan 2025
"Mathematicians estimate money in proportion to its quantity, and men of good sense in proportion to the usage that they may make of it." -Gabriel Cramer May 21st, 1728
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peter@sandwall
30 Oct 2024
"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, subtract things every day." - Lao-Tzu
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peter@sandwall
25 Oct 2024
Our opportunities are the result of intentional actions by our predecessors. We honor them by carrying the intention forward, creating new opportunities for our successors.
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peter@sandwall
21 Sep 2024
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
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peter@sandwall
13 Aug 2024
"Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you." - Blaise Pascal
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Andrew Farach, MD@AndrewFarach
11 Jul 2024
Replying to @ArjitB_medphys
@ArjitB_medphys introducing the world to the “Baghwala score” to optimize #brachytherapy utilization and minimize burnout @BrandonLi_phys #WCB2024
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peter@sandwall
3 Jul 2024
"However you frame yourself as an artist, the frame is too small."
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peter@sandwall
9 Jun 2024
#medphys #asmr -- maybe the oldest functional linac in the US, excellent condition clinac-4 (factory refurbished in 1984)
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peter@sandwall
29 May 2024
Ian Hacking and the looping effect: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v28/n16/…
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peter@sandwall
4 May 2024
Every word is an arrow, every expression a force of limitless potential.
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Jan Schuemann@JanPOSchuemann
2 May 2024
🔥BREAKING NEWS🔥 @TOPAS is now @OpenTOPAS! The TOPAS team has moved to a full @open-source approach with major upgrades. Spread the word and check out v4.0 for @Geant4 v11.1.3 at: opentopas.github.io/index.ht… Our future developments, a new forum, and documentation will be there
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peter@sandwall
27 Apr 2024
"The irreducible plurality of perspectives on the same reality expresses the impossibility of a divine point of view from which the whole of reality is visible." - Order Out of Chaos, Ilya Prigogine
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AAPM Global Needs Assessment Survey for Medical Physicists: The @aapmHQ Global Needs Assessment Committee is asking #MedPhys in LMIC #radonc & #radiology centers to complete a needs assessment survey. aapm.me/4akFh1K
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peter@sandwall
7 Feb 2024
newyorker.com/magazine/1976/…

“The Book of Sand,” by Jorge Luis Borges

Fiction, from 1976: “Late one evening, a few months back, I heard a knock at my door. I opened it and a stranger stood there.”

newyorker.com
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peter@sandwall
6 Feb 2024
“Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.” — Charlie Munger
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