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PaulHoule

109,459 karma · joined December 10, 2010

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Software developer, community photographer and wanderer between worlds.

1990s: graduate student in Physics, wrote Java applets before Java 1.0, studied wavepacket mechanics, Hamiltonian chaos and classical-quantum correspondence in systems with large spins as well as the statistics of the sound of crumpling paper

2000s: Green Party activist and volunteer at an alternative dispute resolution clinic.

Software developer, sysadmin, planner and communicator for hundreds of web sites in e-publishing and e-commerce including: arXiv.org, 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

2010s: Searched for a breakthough in natural language understanding involving knowledge graphs, world knowledge, symbolic reasoning, reasoning over uncertainty, as well as autoencoder, LSTM, GRU and convolutional neural networks. Frequent speaker at conferences.

Developed 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, and numerous prototype intelligent data processing systems.

I served on a committee researching the application of OWL, RDF and other semantic web concepts to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard which culminated in the publication of ISO/TR 22126-2:2025 "OWL representation of the ISO 20022 metamodel and e-repository"

2020s: Full-stack software developer for the longest running public opinion data archive. Community photographer , pagan and hard-working therianthrope.

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Astronaut of science fiction and fantasy. North American Weeaboo. 狐系ケモノミミ

paul.houle@ontology2.com (607) 821 1243

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Scientists Have Found a Weird Physical Sign That Someone Is Interested in You

iflscience.com·11 pts·PaulHoule·
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Visual–inertial integration enables bumblebees to land on rapidly moving flowers

royalsocietypublishing.org·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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Isotropic Superconductivity in Room-Temperature Superconductor LaSc2H24

arxiv.org·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Samhain

en.wikipedia.org·1 pts·PaulHoule·
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First nuclear ultraheavy dark matter search with the DarkSide-50 experiment

journals.aps.org·1 pts·PaulHoule·
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Parasocial media: why influencers aren't your friend

baldurbjarnason.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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The 50-Year Hangover

freddiedeboer.substack.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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Halting inputs by 2050 is insufficient to avoid marine microplastic accumulation

nature.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Video Game Workers at Blizzard Won First Union Contracts

jacobin.com·1 pts·PaulHoule·
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Probing picosecond depairing currents in type-II superconductors

nature.com·10 pts·PaulHoule·
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Russian Cosmism

en.wikipedia.org·9 pts·PaulHoule·
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Nikon Made a $1,400 Full-Frame Camera for Gen Z and I Might Be Too Old for It

pcmag.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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Novo CEO sees advantages in souping up NYSE listing: report

fiercepharma.com·1 pts·PaulHoule·
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In Defence of the Solitary Practitioner and Self-Initiation

forbiddentexts.substack.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Julius Evola

en.wikipedia.org·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

arstechnica.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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AI Doomsaying Is an Aggressive Sales Pitch

jacobin.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Dolly Parton, Effervescent Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80

hollywoodreporter.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species

arstechnica.com·4 pts·PaulHoule·
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Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

nature.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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Ask HN: Is Google NERFing AI Mode?

4 pts·PaulHoule·
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A self-driving Waymo just reports its own passengers to police

fastcompany.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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The Noid

en.wikipedia.org·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Canada just lowered a 953-tonne slab of steel and concrete into a 35-meter shaft

autonocion.com·9 pts·PaulHoule·
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Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?

15 pts·PaulHoule·
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A strong, reversible, and conformal adhesive gel for diverse plants

science.org·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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Prognostic value of adding delayed phase to cardiac computed tomography

academic.oup.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Improving the circular economy adoption for near-end-of-life offshore wind farms

sciencedirect.com·3 pts·PaulHoule·
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In plain sight: A new pink-fruited species of Actaea L. from New York

bioone.org·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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Using biotelemetry to assess drone effects on whale sharks

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com·2 pts·PaulHoule·
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