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LurkerAbove

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About LurkerAbove

Physics guy by training - sensors, data acquisition, instrumentation. Inexorable slide into software development followed.

https://chriscoughlin.com

Two Neat Things I've Done:

1. Got a patent https://www.google.com/patents/US7080555 . Flight tested on a F-15 E1.

2. Won NASA funding: http://sbir.nasa.gov/SBIR/abstracts/16/sbir/phase1/SBIR-16-1-H13.01-8360.html .

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48094207

    I had an idea about explaining ML predictions without direct access to the data or the model: provide basic stats about your data, use them to generate synthetic data, then train a…

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    Comment #14090587

    I had a recruiter contact me about a COBOL --> Java project a couple of weeks ago. I don't remember the $100/hour part though, seems like that would've stuck with me!

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    Comment #13232185

    I don't have experience with medical ultrasound, but I have built a few basic ultrasonic systems around a PC or a single board computer for structural testing applications. If you'…

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    Comment #12999013

    I've recently started reading the dead tree version of the newspaper and I've noticed that only do I seem to retain more of what I've read vs. reading the electronic version, for m…

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    Comment #12781560

    If SEP IRAs as mentioned above aren't an option, HSAs might be worth considering - after 65 they aren't restricted to medical expenses. I-bonds might be an interesting component fo…

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    Comment #12778167

    Page loads on GL.com can take a while, but I wouldn't say that I've found the actual pull/push cycle to be slow per se. I'd describe it more like "measurable."

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    Comment #12778027

    I used to more or less alternate between Github and Bitbucket but I've been using GitLab exclusively for the past six months. So far it's been a mostly painless transition. I've on…

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    Comment #12737564

    Earlier this year I was working with an outfit that was on Java 4 for A Really Important Business Application. That said, they were looking at moving to IIRC 7 just as I was leavin…