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Ode

2021
A curious genre, the ode operates as both a celebration and lament: it celebrates and memorialises heroes (for Pindar, the prowess of athletes), but it also laments life’s transience, all the while hoping that art will secure immortality for its subjects and the humble poet.
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OD or Not OD?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1988
To the Editor. —When I was a medical student, our professor of therapeutics warned us of the potency of modern drugs, describing them picturesquely and memorably as "therapeutic thunderbolts of Jove." It is this warning, coupled with my involvement in the development of new drugs, that made me particularly conscious of the importance of ensuring that ...
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A Musical Ode

JAMA Oncology, 2022
This essay explores the author’s experience with music and medicine.
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Ode to Leah

Anthropology & Medicine, 2021
I met Leah in the summer of 2020, when the rhododendrons were blooming in Boston, and Anthropology and Medicine asked me to review an article she had submitted for inclusion in this special issue o...
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Ode to a sailor

ACM SIGMOD Record, 2008
Jim Gray went missing without a trace on January 28, 2007, whilst sailing solo to the Farallone Islands on our sailboat Tenacious, to put to rest the ashes of his mother Ann (see Silberman, S. “Where is Jim Gray?” Wired Magazine, 15:08, 130139, 154-155 (August, 2007). Jim is a beloved father, grandfather, and brother.
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An Ode to Arrows

2010
We study a number of embedded DSLs for autonomous ordinary differential equations (autonomous ODEs) in Haskell. A naive implementation based on the lazy tower of derivatives is straightforward but has serious time and space leaks due to the loss of sharing when handling cyclic and infinite data structures.
Hai Liu 0012, Paul Hudak
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