Charles Sheffield

Person · Open Library

Born

1935-06-25

Died

2002-11-02

Works

67

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1931-02-16

Active to

2010-03-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

34,369

Total plays

119,984

Charles Sheffield (aka Mad Dog) was an early-'60s R&B singer from Lake Charles, LA, noted for the regional hit "It's Your Voodoo Working," which is acclaimed more now than when it debuted on Excello Records in 1961. Sheffield cut "It's Your Voodoo Working" at Crowley Studios, which is most noted for blues and R&B recordings. He wrote and recorded 'Voodoo' along with about five other songs, all of which failed to cause a ripple; he then soured on the music business and disappeared from sight. <a

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

2. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,197x

3. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,765x

4. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,441x

5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,887x

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Quotes

• “Life’s not chess, and life’s not poker, but there’s some of both in it.”
• “Maybe Redman meant well when he set up the church, but you can never create a good society based on deception. It’s been tried before, and it always fails. The trouble is, people won’t learn from history.”
• “The trouble with apocalyptic visions is that they often won’t withstand a rational examination.”
• “Alexandria may indeed be full of Devils, Lord, but they behaved very like merchants to my eyes.”
• “Irresponsible on my part, to put pleasure before professional work? Sure—but as I get older carpe diem gets more and more reasonable as a motto for life.”
• “Telepathy? It’s bunk, Tolly. Now, if you’d asked me that forty years ago, I’d have said it was the most exciting thing in the world. Back when Rhine started his work, I thought there was really something there. Since then, it’s gone nowhere. Christ, there’s been any amount of talk, lots of horseshit, no real evidence, and nothing for progress. So now, I say it’s bunk—or else we’ve been going about it all wrong.”

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