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PaulHoule
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About PaulHoule
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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
Recent public activity
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Comment #49210922
It charges if and only when it wants to. And I've been a Garmin enthusiast for a while and been through a few devices already though I am getting sick of the charging unreliability…
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Comment #49209896
Unlike a Garmin Watch it will actually take a charge.
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Comment #49188052
Flash is patterned. There is talk about patterned surfaces for HDD but who knows if it will ever see the light of day.
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Comment #49186711
In terms of the web two of the greatest things we could do for accessibility: (1) eliminate GDPR pop-ups (and all pop-ups and senseless modal dialogs) and (2) eliminate cloudflare …
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Comment #49183726
I remember a lot of talk about how transformative bubble memory was going to be circa 1980 and then quit hearing about it.
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Comment #49182747
It's an opinion that always gets downvoted but... Using an Apple device these days is to be spoken to in a weird language that invites you become one of those people who lives at t…
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Comment #49182479
Somebody has to push back about all the senseless permission boxes as an accessibility problem. Like my home computer has 12 perfectly good USB charging ports but I'm not 100% happ…
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Comment #49173379
That's like asking what happened at the National Mall! In addition to the incident you were thinking about there was a large protest in 1976 that the current regime would rather yo…
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Comment #49172956
https://archive.ph/ukd1p I find it remarkable. American politics flips through regimes of politics, see https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393093972 I remember in 2000 Bill Clinton had com…
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Comment #49169939
The whole "make it harder for pirates to watch in 4K" makes no sense to me, like it comes out of the psychology of people who couldn't possibly understand the psychology of other p…
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Comment #49168818
Once in a while you get a good one, one that stands out among all the others, and that's a worse outcome because the same image will be used by everybody including your competitors…
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Comment #49127501
Given that Hollywood is struggling to produce movies that people want to watch I don't think it is in their best interest to allocate much headspace at all to an experience just a …
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Comment #49125907
What can be done about it? Facebook could have been held responsible for its contribution to the genocide in Myanmar https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...…
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Comment #49125824
Most of the human brain's energy consumption is not dependent on how hard you are thinking https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442230-can-you-burn-calo... I think differential equa…
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Comment #49114603
There is a Venn Diagram of "This content is AI slop" and "This content is slop about AI" and the intersection "AI Slop Slop Content about AI" is a LinkedIn specialty!
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Comment #49103322
That's a refutation of agile, Vibe Coding and the last 25 years of the software industry. One of my own quality metrics that almost everyone rejects is a "a good design is a design…
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Comment #49102435
Well, not covering content helps. Another thing that would help is sensitive to the emotional rhythms. One problem is that before I have to close your modal dialog I have probably …
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Comment #49101217
When I get a nag I leave a 1 star review every time and I know I'm not the only one.
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Comment #49101199
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Comment #49099073
It could have been "respect DNT or go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200". Instead we got American-style legalistic consentualism. My experience as a web develop…
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Comment #49099027
This! Personally I feel overwhelmed by dialog boxes and other trash content that gets in the way of content I need to see to do my tasks. I want to see somebody punished whenever s…
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Comment #49098487
I liked it because he shows the logistic curve, something that's forgotten today when people are enamored with the exponential and the "intelligence explosion" model of dx 2 -- = x…
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Comment #49097596
The question is what exactly we're supposed to do about it.
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Comment #49087888
Other people there. Like I have people I like on Mastodon and Tumblr (furs and friends) but I am on Meta platforms too because my family is on Facebook as well as older people that…
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Comment #49087859
The charging situation with Garmin is terrible, enough that when Venu quits charging I might go for the Apple Watch or anything that takes a charge...