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Ken_At_EM

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About Ken_At_EM

Co-Founder and CEO of Erdos Miller.

Precisely boring holes into the Earth (or other planets!) is critical to humanities survival and expansion. We make hardware and software tools that allow for precise real-time control of borehole construction.

Our tools are used in the Oil and Gas, Geothermal, Plug and Abandonment, and Horizontal Directional Drilling Industries.

We're always hiring: https://www.erdosmiller.com/careers

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48898698

    ok but a lot of coding used to be fighting package managers, discovering bugs in dependencies, dealing with deploy baloney, etc, not just "solving puzzles" or "architecting the bac…

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    Comment #48898681

    nailed it

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    Comment #48712157

    I can't help but ask where this comment came from, you must have some exposure..

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    Comment #48243631

    You can check out our podcast, it goes over a lot of the basics. https://www.erdosmiller.com/podcast

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    Comment #48113602

    We (as an industry) have repurposed this technology for what's called Electromagnetic Measurement While Drilling telemetry. We break modern drill strings with a "gap sub", which is…

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    Comment #47828916

    Glad I am not the only one, this makes me feel less crazy.

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    Comment #47823467

    We were on invoice, and yes we had about a week or so of warning, but again, we had done the wire transfer to the full amount, and provided evidence of such.

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    Comment #47823458

    First: Flew to California on whim after meeting some other devs in an IRC chat. Second: I kid you not, playing pool in a bar.

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    Comment #47818647

    Yeah, well be careful of Hetzner, I used to love them but I just migrated away. They just shut all all of our VMs over a $36 billing dispute. (~30 VMs we were using for our CI/CD p…

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    Comment #45622193

    Where's my Robo Taxi that's worth $250k because it drives people around while I work?

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    Comment #45451010

    Erdos Miller | Data Wrangler (Part-time → Full-time growth) | Remote (US preferred, flexible otherwise) We build Measurement While Drilling (MWD) equipment — and we love it. That p…

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    Comment #45164050

    Not sure what you mean, our equipment is conveyed in and out of the well during the drilling process.

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    Comment #45154485

    Thank you!

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    Comment #45153614

    Super glad to be a part of this. Our MicroPulse Measurement While Drilling Systems have been used to drill numerous wells for Fervo. We also developed a first of its kind navigatio…

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    Comment #45120868

    Erdos Miller ( https://www.erdosmiller.com ) | Hybrid (Houston, TX) | Senior Software Systems Engineer | $154k - $175k I've got to be honest. At Erdos Miller, we’re good at softwar…

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    Comment #44942036

    Great, take a step further. The future is docking your phone, probably ultimately wirelessly, and have a keyboard, mouse and multi monitor, why not a solid voice interface at the s…

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    Comment #44705239

    I installed this, lasted about 90 seconds on my machine before I went back to iTerm.

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    Comment #44653749

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyNuUQs8w4Y Paranoid. I love the Sabbath version, but Randy crushes it with Ozzy in 1981. Only 3 years with Ozzy, and Randy is still top 10 in the m…

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    Comment #44653658

    The final CPU/GPU usage is still totally unacceptable.

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    Comment #43738020

    +10 Points. Awful take.

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    Comment #43626038

    Unfortunately I feel like the no ads is just a matter of time.

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    Comment #43626026

    99% Perplexity

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    Comment #43600811

    About spit out my coffee, hilarious title.

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    Comment #43561332

    We're open to it. Show us what you've got.