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OpenShift. ML. Formal Methods. Founder tummy.com, Linux SysAdmin/Ops and Managed Dedicated Hosting. github:evelynmitchell twitter: tummycom
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efm··on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
tl;dr allocating a lot of spectrum to broadcast TV blocked cell phones
efm··on Nasa Aeronautics Book Series (2015)
Fault Tree Analysis is fairly simple. http://www.itsmsolutions.com/newsletters/DITYvol4iss47.htm

Having a clear understanding of the dependencies of the components of the system, and the ways they can fail/degrade, is the hard part.

efm··on Ask HN: Recommendations for educational video games
http://www.zachtronics.com/

shenzhen-io and TIS-100 to learn electronics

efm··on Sketching with Math and Quasi Physics
His youtube channel [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman

efm··on Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
Yes. You'll meet different kinds of business owners, but they will have real problems.
efm··on Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
Join a nonprofit in a board level role. The local chamber of commerce has leadership training.

Negotiate.

Read https://pragprog.com/book/rdbcd/behind-closed-doors

Identify and measure the output of your team. Track your performance by how fast your team creates value. Reduce variance first, then add speed, then more capacity.

efm··on Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
If you do all the other recommended things, you'll start hanging out with people who spend money to solve real business problems. The projects will come to you then.
efm··on U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
The three mountain counties in Colorado with the lowest death rates in the US don't have major hospitals. Without hospitals, fewer deaths.
efm··on Escalation of Privilege Advisory
Correct. This is only to close the local exploit route.
efm··on Escalation of Privilege Advisory
The Linux kernel modules are mei_me and mei. To check: modprobe -nr mei_me mei #dry run modprobe -r mei_me mei #to unload the module This will not persist across reboots.

There is also a lms package.

I don't know whether any of this is required for a remote exploit, or if it's only needed for local escallation.

efm··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2017)
SEEKING WORK / Fort Collins, CO / Happy to work remotely

Experienced Linux Ops team. AWS and hosted, Puppet, Ansible, Packer, git, CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian, Opsview, Nagios. Rsync backups. NFS/S3/EBS/ZFS storage.

We are a proven team looking to add a client. Corp-Corp. Contact: info [@at] tummy.com

efm··on Complexity Theory and Evolution in Economics
Netlogo code for all Agent_Zero models http://press.princeton.edu/video/epstein/agent_zero/applets/...
efm··on Shorter Detour – redirect distracting websites to your reading list
Interesting idea and solves a real problem, but, no I'm not going to edit my network config to redirect to your site.
efm··on High prevalence of diabetes among people exposed to organophosphates in India
tl;dr The "dirty dozen" list is not backed up by evidence. If you read the conclusion of the paper: In summary, findings conclusively demonstrate that consumer exposures to the ten most frequently detected pesticides on EWG's “Dirty Dozen” commodity list are at negligible levels and that the EWG methodology is insufficient to allow any meaningful rankings among commodities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135239/
efm··on Probabilistic Programming
Stan [1] has a modelling dsl, and multiple language interfaces. It also uses a state of the art, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Markov Chain model which is significantly faster than other MCMCs. A good introductory tutorial video is [2]

[1] http://mc-stan.org/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSjsJg8fcwY

efm··on Cog Blog: We are very happy to make the following announcement
The title might be better as "Smalltalk company Cog, adds key developers".
efm··on Feedback on Startup: Hashdoc – Marketplace for Documents
Documents is extremely broad.

What sorts of users have you been listening to? How does it make them more awesome?

efm··on Ask HN: Why speakers are counting hands on every conference talk?
It's an audience engagement tactic.
efm··on The collected works of F. W. Lawvere
F. W. Lawvere is the author of _Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories_, and known for his work in Category Theory.
efm··on Show HN: Poetically simple code review on GitHub
I'd like to try this,

github repos permission,

just to try it out?

efm··on NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf]
Yes. The SE Handbook is about much larger, more complicated, more reliability-driven projects, than are often discussed here.
efm··on NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf]
Thanks for clarifying. And, thanks for your work on OpenMDAO. http://openmdao.org/
efm··on Moleskine Smart Writing Set
You can print your own paper on a color laser printer with their Windows program. http://www.neosmartpen.com/en/products/n_toaster So, you don't need to use Moleskine, if you don't want to.

The pen, separately, is $170 on Amazon.

efm··on Containing Multitudes
Walt Whitman, _Leaves of Grass_
efm··on London’s startup scene is getting more sophisticated
Where do you hear about LeanCoffee?
efm··on Recent Events and Future Changes
This is an example of an inside view "I see drama everywhere!" swamping an outside view "Freenode is up, ok."

One of the early lessons I needed to learn as a manager, is that my inside view is just one view. Getting the view of others is much more valuable.

efm··on Show HN: Medical Research Summarizer – Complex research as simple summaries
Where is the privacy policy?

Information about diseases people search for is valuable to a lot of third parties.

efm··on Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom
sagemathcloud.org lets teachers, students and others use sagemath without having to install anything.
efm··on Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew (2013)
http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/ra...

Link to a report on exposure.

efm··on Ulix – a Literate Unix
I added a pull request based on your comment.
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