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adinb

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My contact: scrappy {at} duck dot com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/adinb; my proof: https://keybase.io/adinb/sigs/aGOhK2CcVBvQG4l4gJx441birnublct91ExXOTlzTho ]

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adinb··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
It doesn’t to be a ton bigger, 16k and reliable 8k would be a godsend. (I run at 2k)
adinb··on Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
My handoff is a handoff_latest.md that points to the latest handoff_datetime.md in a handoff folder.
adinb··on Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline
No need—small and light enough was able to do everything offline, though runpod would work fine, though it‘d be be a quick job
adinb··on Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline
I did that on a little macbook m4 last night on my model of the innate immune system—fine tuning took 15m or so. Just wish it had a larger context window
adinb··on German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Are they trying to recreate DIS (IEEE1278) and HLA (IEEE1516) — like they‘re replicating the FOM architecture from distributed simulations for their weapons to integrate.
adinb··on Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
No. I believe the problem is with our artificial models of Alzheimer’s in mice.
adinb··on Europe's Nuclear Trilemma:Difficult and Dangerous Options for Post-US Deterrence
How about nuking his ‘villa’ by sochi. Personal note to Putin.
adinb··on Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
They made it!
adinb··on GPT-4.5
I cannot overstate how good your shared spreadsheet is. Thanks again!
adinb··on Gene behind orange fur in cats
It’s there, scrappy at duck dot com, I’ll delete this in a few
adinb··on Gene behind orange fur in cats
I volunteer as tribute! I’m a 2003 PwME who is second generation, and my son is diagnosed 3rd generation. And we have lateral transmission to my wife, somehow. My Dx. was by Dr. Nancy Klimas 2009 and had an extensive work up by the Mayo in 2010. Seriously, if there is anything I can do to assist your research, please let me know. (I’ll put contact in my profile)
adinb··on Show HN: Introduce Aiden v0.0.1, AI for Organizing Async Daily Standup Meetings
Ok, this is totally OT, but is there a story or meaning to the name choice of your ai bot?
adinb··on Tenstorrent unveils Grayskull, its RISC-V answer to GPUs
Seeing the topology I had a flashback to college and the MasPar [1] we were using in ‘92!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar

adinb··on Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language
I have yet to find a language/ide with good discoverability. Does the visual metaphor enable the blocks/objects/functions to tell you what they do and how to use them?
adinb··on OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator
Can you do intercepts? (Weapons director & Air Refueling sim!)
adinb··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
It appears that gdb/greg brockman is going too.
adinb··on A Mechanism for Long Covid
> but would help moderate your acid-base over the long term if you can push through the pain/fatigue/etc.

Pushing through is part of the problem. The crash that comes from pushing is the real problem --all kinds of blood markers go amuck after exertion (especially anything aerobic >10m, like a cardio pulmonary exercise test) and stay amuck for about a week. And the more you try to do during the crash the longer or worse the crash becomes. Pushing regardless of crash status, like in graded exercise therapy, has actually caused ME/CFS/Long Covid baseline symptoms to become worse semi-permanently.

adinb··on Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977
Are you referring to Social Security benefits counselors? They are notoriously difficult to get ahold of (in NM); you have to go in person and wait in a large room for (usually) hours with several hundred people. And then what you’re told varies depending on the person.
adinb··on Ask HN: What has succeeded for you when working with volunteers?
In my experience, short tasks/projects that have a definite end work the best. Do not give volunteers projects that are mission critical with hard deadlines. If you must give volunteers on-going tasks, make sure to try and recruit enough volunteers that they can rotate between different jobs/tasks. Burnout is a killer on volunteer teams. And some level of politics and drama are inescapable—a volunteer coordinator can really help keep it to a minimum though.

The biggest motivator I’ve found is resume building. Match your volunteers to things they’re interested in trying out—including soft skills! Help coach your volunteers to find the right fit!

Recognition is another huge motivator. Newsletters, meetings, special awards, you name it.

Volunteers are hard. A good volunteer coordinator is worth their weight in gold!

If anyone has specific questions, I’m happy to answer.

(I helped run an all volunteer charity for about a decade)

adinb··on New Treatment Neutralizes All Covid-19 Variants
What's the next step for this monoclonal antibody?
adinb··on Diet and its effects on the gut biome in the pathophysiology of mental disorders
Have you heard of the FODMAP diet? It can really help with IBS. You start by eliminating all foods with FODMAPS[1] for six weeks and then gradually reintroduce foods from each of the FODMAP categories. It’s recommended to have a dietician/nutritionist help with the temporary diet. It was pioneered by Monash University. [ https://www.monashfodmap.com ]

[1] the FODMAP acronym: Fermenatble Oligo-,Di-,Monosaccharides And Polyols

adinb··on Pig heart transplant failed as its heart muscle cells died
It’s because they don’t know why the heart muscles died.
adinb··on Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
Doesn't that only work on the business plans? (Not the family plans that are 6 users for $99/yr)
adinb··on Exercise plasma boosts memory and dampens brain inflammation via clusterin
So does this mean that we can reduce neuroinflammation in ME/CFS and Long Covid with clusterin infusions?
adinb··on Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
Thanks!
adinb··on Myanmar's satellite held by Japan on space station due to spying concern
Isn’t that what the World Trade Organization (WTO) is for?
adinb··on The U.S. Air Force just admitted the F-35 stealth fighter has failed
Firm, Fixed Price (ffp) contracts can be utilized with incentives after delivery based on metrics like tail availability, maintenance issues, flight hour cost, effectiveness, etc. Most big contracts are really a hybrid, though an existing contractor always tries for a cost plus. It's literally taught in PM classes.

I was NOT directly involved in F-35, so I can't speak to the exact amount of sleaze that occurred with the prime contractor.

I'd love to see a real competition! (new contractors, new ideas, new teams, new airframe ideas). And two engines, yeesh.

Anyways, cost plus is great at moving risk to the government. FFP is at the other end of the spectrum, moving all risk to the contractor.

[Unnecessary edit: I'm a fan of the textron scorpion-as a light attack fighter we could modify]

adinb··on BLC1: A candidate signal around Proxima
FCC does. Had to do deconfliction between JTIDS data links (could use more more than X of the available timeslots between all military datalink users) and S-band radar. They’d monitor us and actually occasionally issue fines to units that messed up their terminal’s time slot allocation.
adinb··on Starship / Super Heavy
Aquifer in the area is brackish, but huge. San Antonio even has their own Desalination plant to process their water that they get from their aquifer.
adinb··on Black Sky satellites return images just 58 hours after launch
Private/Commercial JSTARS?
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