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matt9j

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About matt9j

I'm a graduate researcher at the University of Washington interested in connectivity infrastructure, network ownership, and building a more sustainable world.

Find me in other places: https://matt9j.net https://ictd.cs.washington.edu/people https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt9j/ https://github.com/matt9j

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #31749304

    This is actually not entirely true depending on how your structure your spending. In particular in the United States (the context for Coinbase's employees), the basis used to compu…

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    Comment #29396925

    I have some experience building rural cellular networks (4G and starting to work on 5G), and can say that the core network part of the network is usually not the biggest challenge.…

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    Comment #28812644

    An important piece of modern (4G/5G) cell network design is that cells can have overlapping coverage to provide extra capacity in an area. The top level statistic that 52% of sites…

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    Comment #23912081

    I'm surprised Olin college hasn't come up in this discussion yet ( http://www.olin.edu/ ). They're small, but essentially went with this model, at least for a while. They're more u…

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    Comment #23435229

    Magma at its initiation extended a hard fork of OAI. The projects have since diverged quite a bit, but some of the core bits are still shared. NextEPC was renamed to open5gs a whil…

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    Comment #23435200

    In addition to just the total amount of spectrum, coordinated scheduling between towers in the cellular standards helps with cooperative management of interference. Some of this is…

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    Comment #20602922

    There is a subtle technical difference in the literature, where regulation is externally imposed and codified, while communal management is devised, enforced, and most importantly,…

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    Comment #20590208

    Specifically groundwater use with poor drainage leads to salt accumulation over time as the water evaporates and the trace amounts of salt present in the "fresh" water are left beh…

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    Comment #20590189

    I think this is a really interesting point, and am curious about how the shade from the panels will change the ecosystem underneath them. If the natural habitat is mostly low brush…