—Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths (MIT Press, 2020)
—The Consciousness Revolutions (Springer Nature, April 2023)

https://shimon-edelman.github.io/TCR.html

Unabashed lefty married to a terrific woman. Animal lover, especially cats but also dogs, birds—heck all of 'em. Audiophile, vinyl collector. Retired urban planner. Failed novelist.USAF Vietnam vet. Currently a big John Fahey fan. Born in Chicago, lived in Denver, Colorado Springs, St Louis, DC; in San Diego since 1999 and not about to depart until climate change demands it.

Springer Spaniel Mom :: Sea Hag :: Art Historian :: Classical Musician :: RYT 200 :: Mindfulness/Social Justice Facilitator :: Buddhist :: Artist :: NJ Native :: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Warrior :: Active Farker, but please don't hold that against me :: Radicalized and completely unhinged

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I'm a philomath (many interests; call it polymath-wanna-be) professional computer programmer in Silicon Valley, specializing in operating systems, languages/compilers, sometimes AI, usually non-traditional parallel software and hardware architectures.
Also:
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Ex-springboard diver; scuba diver; free diver

Ars longa, vita brevis.

Washington, DC, USA
Silver Spring, MD, USA

Pro: woman, equality, choice, & human. Anti: bigot, exclusion, & misinformation. Agnostic Jew. AuDHD *she/her* fibro and crohns fighter. I am fucking awesome. P*nch the nazi. ❤️ Pretty girl who cries.

www.youtube.com/c/NixAnadoo

Critical thinker | always seeking the truth | hate (🇷🇺)aggression and lies | despising misinformation and anti-science rhetoric | democracy must be protected in any possible way | retired as a dentist-academic teacher (restorative dentistry, implantology, oral radiology) | (re)married, a lot of children, step- & grandchildren 💕 | sailor Westerly Medway | Scandinavian countries and Baltic states | humor, self-mockery | science | nature | dog: Welsh Springer Spaniël-Ivy 💉🇺🇦⛵️🛥️⚓️🐾🇳🇱🇺🇦🔵

I would like to tell you about myself
1. I go by many names Elliot Washington, Retro-Rock, Red-Elliot, MrElliotDoggyMeaty, Rocket-Mon and Elliot The Fury
2. I dump Rare and Obscure Japanese 8-Bit Pc Games
3. My favorite food is Pizza, Burger, French Fries, Turkey Sandwiches, Chicken Nuggets, and Strawberries with Peanut Butter
4. My favorite season is Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall
5. I like talking about Retro Games a lot
6. I like Cats, Dogs, Raccoons, Pufferfish, Octopus, Parrots and Foxes

Gay partnered (for 17 yrs)Boomer in California (Palm Springs area). Napa wine tour concierge 2019-23. Pre-retirement I was a tech analyst studying emerging technology. Step-Papy to 2 amazing 20-something daughters. Big time cat dad.

#Music: U2, Bon Jovi, 30 Seconds To Mars, Taylor Swift, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Mylène Farmer, Kelly Clarkson, Mel C, P!nk, The Corrs, Robbie Williams, Bryan Adams, Bruce Springsteen, Manic Street Preachers, Marillion, Within Temptation #Sports: F1 #HarryPotter: Ravenclaw #007 #JamesBond #POKER #Games #Gaming #PS5 #PC #Lisbon #Portugal

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Enjoying life in a small, temperate seaside town in Portugal 🇵🇹 🌴🌴

Life is never fair. But it can be better.

I swear I found the key to the universe. Ask me where.

#LiverpoolFC #AlohaLife #NotAISlop

Frameworks & Architecture in the Spring open source engineering team, all things Spring, Java, data, DDD, REST, software architecture, drums & music. He/him.

CS Student, Java, ...btw I use Arch

325 ppm. Unternehmer. #Hacking, #c++, #rust, #java, #spring; #sailing, #climbing (nowadays badly), #piano (badly), #cycling, #renewableenergy, #emobility, #Energiewende.

#NieWiederIstJetzt.

Quarterly indie digital magazine featuring weird fiction, science fiction, fantasy & fact.
Editor-in-Chief: @esraye

Issue 9: Spring 2026 live now. Get it free at http://perseidprophecies.ca

Nebula and 3X BSFA Award Finalist Author. Science writer. Artist. Explorer. 
THE VALE OF SEVEN DRAGONS (Apr. 2026) | GODFESTATION (Aug. 2026). Head of Stars and Sabers Publishing. CEO of Roaring Spring Productions, LLC.
Also wrote as J. Dianne Dotson.
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Enterprise Software Architect, Cloud, OpenSource, Gardening, Travel

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SW-Developer, Father, Musician
#DEVCommunity #Berlin #Java #csharp #SpringBoot #TypeScript #Angular #coffee

Call me Cider 🍎☕️ ✓
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I do native iOS 📱, macOS 🖥️, and Android 🤖 accessibility ♿️ and native iOS development 🛠️.

I post my bad music taste regularly 🎶

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦👨🏻‍💻🚴🏻 – Father, Husband, Developer, Athlete. Author of @springbootbuch and #DuckDB in Action, founder of @euregjug. Java champion working on various integrations of @neo4j in the broader Java ecosystem.

You can expect a mixture of tech (Java, GraalVM, databases), some politics, cycling and food pictures.

Published in 2024: https://www.manning.com/books/duckdb-in-action