Having said thus much by way of introduction, I commit the following to the candour of the Publick.
Helu! I'm Thomas.
@tqbf@infosec.exchange
thomas@sockpuppet.org
thomas@fly.io
(Don't apologize for contacting me! I'm happy to meet you.)
Daily follow list: 'jcranmer, 'pvg, 'DannyBee, 'JumpCrisscross, 'kasey_junk, 'tzs, 'dctoedt, 'idlewords,
'carbocation (many others who don't post often enough to call out like this).
Screw Elon Musk and the horse he rode in on. There is
no way I'm going to give that character my content or
collaborate in anything he owns or has a stake in.
Still looking for an alternative.
Founder of modularcompany.com , we do Technical Due Diligence for investors (early stage, VC, PE), vendors and acquirers in Europe and the Near East.
Partner at Tablomonto.com. If you have an interesting early stage startup in The Netherlands I would like to hear from you.
Founder of camarades.com / ww.com, creator of the first 'streaming webcam software'.
Small time angel investor, > 20 investments to date, > 20K < 100K
Happy to report that now three of those have exited with nice returns.
My email is jacques@modularcompany.com, phone + 31 6 30 366 241, Netherlands
Feel free to contact me anytime, except for large money transfers from African countries or such.
And please don't even think of approaching me to get your stuff posted or upvoted, if you want something posted do it yourself, if you want stuff to be upvoted post interesting stuff!
If you comment and I'm not responding to you it may well be that you are filtered out from my view.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” - Carl Sagan
I maintain a website with translations of pg's essays to polish language, http://esejepg.pl/.
I do software nowadays, but I'm constantly looking for opportunities to do something actually useful for humanity. If you know of some, please let me know - especially if they involve biotech, cleantech or NewSpace industry.
(see also: http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2018-01-06-going-far-going-small.html)
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Aw, what the hell, I want that extra badge:
https://hnbadges.netlify.app/?user=TeMPOraL
(see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28389773)
Software developer at a major research university. My unit has been part of the open data movement for 75 years.
I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY.
Some projects I've worked on: a voice chat service for the Brazilian market, the market leading open access e-Print server, e-business systems for car dealerships, wineries and a pallet recycling company, decision support systems for sales territory assignment, a collaborative visual editor for knowledge graphs, a social network for a secret society, a rich metadata database for the global performing arts with hundreds of Postgres tables that we should have built in RDF, a similarity metric for generic concepts (people, places, creative works, ...), a search engine for patents powered by a neural network, conversion of Freebase to an RDF graph with perfect referential integrity, an automatically curated collection of more than 1 million images of thousands of topics, a study of statistics of the sound of crumpling paper, and two efforts to commercialize foundation models before
Current side projects involve: structurally modelling financial messaging standards such as FIX, FPML and ISO 20022 with OWL DL, prototyping a smart "RSS reader" with coupled workflow engine and text relevance and clustering models, and a system of "three sided cards."
