For those just tuning in, Mike Lindell, the “Pillow Guy” is claiming that Biden is illegitimate. Specifically, that China hacked into the election systems and claims he can prove it. On August 10th through 12th 2021 he is hosting a “Cyber Symposium” to evaluate said data and hold … | Continue reading
In January 2020 it was clear something was coming. China was shutting down cities, Chinese citizens I knew were buying all the n95’s they could find and sending them home. Today, in June 2021 we all know about COVID-19. What’s interesting now is that there is the COVID-19 Delta v … | Continue reading
I’ve been hesitant to weigh in on this topic. However, I believe at this point, it’s clear there are a significant number of COVID19 vaccine deaths & risks. It’s a touchy subject, but please stay with me… I believe this is critical. U.S. Vaccination Rate Today in the United State … | Continue reading
The world has entered one of the hardest times since 2008, it will likely dwarf 2008, as we wont be able to print our way out of it. That may be a bold statement, but it appears inevitable. In my view, there are simply too many indicators, we’re going to enter a time of Stagflati … | Continue reading
I have been engaging with WSB (WallStreetBets) since 2014. Every regular person on WSB understands it’s a game. You can loose it all, make it big. Sometimes in the same day, it’s all a game. Sure, there are real life impacts, but what most accurately describes WSB culture was cle … | Continue reading
The phrase: “Crossing the Rubicon” refers to when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with a legion on January 10, 49 BC, leading to the Roman Civil War. At the time of writing, the United States is at that cross roads. Make no mistake, we are witnessing a power struggle, one … | Continue reading
I have been listening to my friends and family and am concerned that many are not aware of the election process. Having the presidential election flip from Democrat to Republican at this point can cause massive rioting, violence, etc. We should all be aware of the current situati … | Continue reading
Firearms (guns) are one of the hot button issues in the United States and globally. I’m sure it is understandable why — pull the trigger and something dies. Killing is the primary purpose of a firearm. Naturally, this leads many to be fearful of firearms, but should people be fea … | Continue reading
In June, I made the prediction that it’s likely we’ll see hundreds of thousands dead by July from COVID-19. According to official data, my prediction was not entirely accurate, being closer to the lower bound of my simulation(s) (a hundred thousand). Today, we have more informati … | Continue reading
Configure SSH on an Arch Linux server, enabling secure access from anywhere. In this article, we attempt to mitigate risks associated with SSH. | Continue reading
If you were born mid-90’s or earlier, you probably remember being bored. We used to talk to ourselves, play “make believe”, taking walks, listening to records, etc. We learned to entertain ourselves, imagine, and create. Today, my children and children born into the age of the vi … | Continue reading
Configure and Arch Linux laptop to maximize battery performance while not reducing performance. In this case, we cover T14s and stretch battery life 2hrs. | Continue reading
Those that know me, know that I am both bold and resolute. I stand by my thoughts / comments, yet I attempt to keep an open mind, analyze a situation, self-reflect on any biases, and integrate feedback. I even go so far as to analyze my confidence level, see predictionbook.com. W … | Continue reading
As someone who has asthma and had pneumonia late January 2020, I was home from work for two weeks and with a 105 fever and aches I couldn’t focus or work. I had Influenza B and I have to say, it was not something I wish to experience again. Around the time of my recovery, … | Continue reading
In this article, we cover parsing USPTO XML documents into their seperate patents to create a massive and completely free dataset for NLP tasks | Continue reading
As a decade comes to a close (2010’s) it seems a good time to reflect and also predict what will come in the next ten years. Below are a set of my predictions for then. I enjoy tracking my predictions and accuracy (even keeping an account on predictionbook.com). By tracking predi … | Continue reading
In 2015, I was offered corporate funding for a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Further, I had a professor interested in working with me and an interesting area of research. Instead, I decided to pursue a career in industry with my recently issued B.S. i … | Continue reading
This essay explores the impact of having children have had on my career and as a whole observations of other parents in the workforce. | Continue reading
Making a product demo on your landing page can lead to significant conversions. Unfortunately, this can be challenging as the demo has to be quick to load (i.e. small) and robust to the various browsers. In this post I’ll cover some of what I did to create the landing page for In … | Continue reading
Building a startup from scratch is hard work. Particularly, when you’re a solo founder, such as myself. You simply have limited time. There is a constant, balancing act between where to focus: customer engagement, product management, engineering, design, etc. For me, the order is … | Continue reading
Multithreading – a technique by which a single set of code can be used by several processors at different stages of execution. [1] Background Information OpenMP is an API specification for Parallel Processing specifically using shared memory. In other words, it is an API that all … | Continue reading
One topic that is interesting to nearly everyone is – money. We need money to live and to prosper. If we don’t have any money, things go south quickly. This post is about the way we obtain money, primarily the scale at which we obtain money. This is often referred to as the pay s … | Continue reading
Officially, my job title is a Software Engineer. What is your official job title? Does your job title define what you do? I highly doubt it. A function provided to the organization is a role. A collection of roles make up job families / titles. This distinction is the primary dif … | Continue reading
Edge detection is the process of reducing an image to edges. In computer vision, edge detection is essential for algorithms to identify or process a scene. | Continue reading
A guide on applying neural networks to problem(s), that doesn't contain math and covers everything fom dataset curation to hyperparameter tuning. | Continue reading
This is the eighth and final article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our b … | Continue reading
Alright — so the title is a bit bold. It may seem like click bait, but it’s true. I wanted to share it to drive discussion / engagement around my product(s) and I’m saying that upfront so you can read this article through that lens. Here’s an example of a suggested trade from 201 … | Continue reading
This is the second article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question was being asked or a command given. The goal being to … | Continue reading
This is the fifth article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks to, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). … | Continue reading
This is the fourth article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The goal b … | Continue reading
This is the sixth article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex. We needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bot(s). The … | Continue reading
This is the seventh article in an eight part series on a practical guide to using neural networks, applied to real world problems. Specifically, this is a problem we faced at Metacortex — where we needed our bots to understand when a question, statement, or command sent to our bo … | Continue reading
My son Atlas is just over nine months old. He’s just started crawling, eating solids, and getting close to saying words. One thing that’s been troubling me, is that he probably wont have liberty (freedom) in his lifetime. Liberty requires a few things: Freedom of Self-Determinati … | Continue reading
This is the first of three articles on an analysis of Reddit community, utilizing RedditProfile.com – a demonstration of the Metacortex platform. The goal is to analyze if there are any political leanings of the Reddit communities we follow. Political tags – such as royalist, com … | Continue reading
This is the third of three articles on an analysis of Hacker News community, utilizing HNProfile.com – a demonstration of the Metacortex platform. The first article is Trends on Hacker News: Politics and the second is Trends on Hacker News: Programming Languages & Tools. This art … | Continue reading
This is the second of three articles on an analysis of Hacker News community, utilizing HNProfile.com – a demonstration of the Metacortex platform. The goal is to analyze the preferred programming languages and tools of Hacker News community. The first article is Trends on Hacker … | Continue reading
This is the first of three articles on an analysis of Hacker News community, utilizing HNProfile.com – a demonstration of the Metacortex platform. The goal is to analyze if there is any political leanings of Hacker News community. Political tags – such as royalist, communist, dem … | Continue reading
I think we can generally agree that “Fake News is bad,” what many of us cannot agree on is what is “Fake News,” is it mainstream news, the alt-right, the alt-left? Nor, as a society can agree what to do about “Fake News”, probably because there isn’t a clear definition. From my p … | Continue reading
Learn how to do Full-Text search in PostgreSQL at scale, without many optimizations that can compete with ElasticSearch or similar production systems. | Continue reading