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rhaygood

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Founder of CardVine (http://cardvine.com/) and evolutionary geneticist (http://ralphhaygood.org/).

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Reshaping 15 years ago

Interesting. I'm now experimenting with "H&J" on some pages of mine that have fairly long, side-by-side columns of text. I haven't decided yet whether I'll stick with it. It's a bit disconcerting, albeit not at all surprising, that Hyphenator.js sometimes yields three or more hyphenated lines in succession. I'll probably run my pages by some friends and ask whether they find them more readable with or without "H&J" - unscientific but maybe good enough for my purposes.

The death of the SSC kept me out of particle physics. I was thinking of becoming a theoretical particle physicist, but I'm skeptical of doing theory without frequent input from experiments - it may be mathematically elegant, but it may well not be physics. I eventually went into biology, where there's more data of some kinds than we know what to do with, albeit other kinds of data we'd like are still hard to come by.