Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • THE FUTURE IS ALMOST HERE AeroVironment Switchblade The Switchblade — sometimes

    THE FUTURE IS ALMOST HERE

    AeroVironment Switchblade

    The Switchblade — sometimes called the kamikaze drone — isn’t new. More missile than robot, it can conduct low-level intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance with a tiny camera.

    It’s the sort of drone that could soon make a leap in capability. Back in April, the Office of Naval Research announced a program called the Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology, or LOCUST.

    The goal is to launch 30 synchronized, foldable drones that conduct a series of maneuvers with almost no guidance. The Navy selected a foldable drone called the Coyote, manufactured by Raytheon subsidiary Sensintel and so immediately popular that the Army bought 75 in 2012 and quickly put out an “emergency needs statement” for more.

    And there’s no reason why its maneuver and autonomy software couldn’t be applied to the smaller Switchblade.

    The Navy’s research program could make so-called lethal miniature aerial munitions systems like the Switchblade a lot smarter in the coming years.

    A very high velocity explosive, and frangible aluminum payload and you have a

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-17 09:16:00 UTC

  • (Facebook ‘features’) Apparently Facebook is kicking up memories of the past on

    (Facebook ‘features’)

    Apparently Facebook is kicking up memories of the past on a random basis. But how do they select good and bad memories? I mean, if you show me a photo from my divorce era I might just start sobbing. Others fill you with joy.

    This photo magically appeared on my timeline today. Amanda is an elegant woman, beautiful and kind. A bit of a fragile flower at times, which makes her all the more desirable. She’ll be beautiful no matter what her age. I couldn’t tolerate living in Canada, and she couldn’t trust me to be dependable enough to follow me. And she was terrified of racism in the states the same way europeans are terrified of guns in the states.

    Men are more sentimental than women. I still love every women I’ve ever been with. Women are not. When we’re gone, they hate us. This makes a kind of reproductive sense really. We still protect them if they don’t mate with us. They refuse to mate with us because for them we’re unreliable, and they spread negative gossip about us to other women, decreasing our reproductive viability.

    All knowledge is not welcome. Ignorance is comforting. The universe is not our friend. We defeat the universe with every day we exist. It is our only function – to conquer and bend the universe to our will, for our own purpose, and in doing so make a garden by pacifying a universe that cares not about us in the least.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-13 06:17:00 UTC

  • (Oversing update. Looks like thanks to Kirill I will finish the skills system to

    (Oversing update. Looks like thanks to Kirill I will finish the skills system tonight with the soft skills, tech, creative, marketing skills. I may “fiddle” with the questions a bit. But it’s there.)

    (Every new industry we add requires we add the relevant skills.

    Unfortunately the published lists reinforce the industrial postwar bureaucratic nonsense. So we can’t use them. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-12 11:09:00 UTC

  • tell me your ip and i’ll unlock it

    tell me your ip and i’ll unlock it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-12 05:52:59 UTC

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  • someone is using your ip address to attempt to login as admin (there is no user

    someone is using your ip address to attempt to login as admin (there is no user ‘admin’)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-12 05:52:17 UTC

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  • I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE (oversing update)(sorry competitors)(humor)(diary) I know

    I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE

    (oversing update)(sorry competitors)(humor)(diary)

    I know. Feeling cocky today. Very. It’ll pass. But right now I’m enjoying it. 🙂

    I was wrong. The permissions were done correctly, I just leapt to a conclusion late last night (tired). The groups weren’t done yet.

    I was wrong. The forecast tracking is easy to add, and the workflow system to manage it is done correctly. I designed a “belt and suspenders” solution. I am not sure that’s necessary if we log all adds and removals from the period. I think we just made it easier that it was for us at Ascentium.

    I triaged all the remaining known work this week. I’m thrilled with the state of things.

    Roman (our Chief User Advocate) has a (frightening) number of issues he’s filed under ‘tweaks’: 286 of them. A lot of them are small but brilliant things. We can’t do all of them but we can sure do most.

    I need to triage two folders of the ‘bugs and tweaks’,(about 500 altogether) because (a) many of them are very old and I don’t think they’re real any longer; (b) it seems like many of them are dupes; (c) it seems like a lot of them are fixed already through the natural course of events.

    THE LUXURY OF TIME

    If you have the luxury of developing software at low burn rates and long schedules, it’s the most wonderful way to work in the world. Time pressure harms thoughts and increases gambles. I would prefer to manage budget with salaries dependent upon GDP, than with greater budgets and guns to my head.

    The Atlassian guys are sort of ‘Hippies’ (Think Portland) and we’re kind of ‘Yuppies’ (Think Seattle), but both of us like to practice our craft with the luxury of time.

    The trick is that the time you put into your work must produce profits that not only pay for your original investment, but that generate the future profits to justify the risk you took.

    Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-09 09:39:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Two kicks in the pants today. 🙁 Permissions isn’t right (too at

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Two kicks in the pants today. 🙁

    Permissions isn’t right (too atomic) and neither is forecasting (missing the burndown functionality and the dynamic quick report. But things are going so well that we can take the hit.

    I take responsibility for not getting more involved. I should have. But I can fix both problems.

    We think we have fixed the scheduling usability. And we are almost there on fixing the workspace ‘confusion’ usability.

    We have only one serious usability problem that I know if and that’s something Kirill will fix shortly: using workflow “buttons” (actions) across multiple entities.

    We have many task entity types and you can define commands for each of them. So we want commands to be reusable so to speak.

    But otherwise we are rocking it.

    I can’t wait to show it to people in Seattle. If you used timesys It’ll blow minds.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-08 14:29:00 UTC

  • THE FUTURE “The browser is the operating system, and Oversing not just an applic

    THE FUTURE

    “The browser is the operating system, and Oversing not just an application – it is the user interface to the organization.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-07 07:33:00 UTC

  • The reason propertarianism.com is hanging: Russkies!!!!! —“cPHulk is a securit

    The reason propertarianism.com is hanging: Russkies!!!!!

    —“cPHulk is a security feature found only on cPanel based Linux servers

    It locks down the cPanel and WHM logins, SSH (shell/root access) logins, FTP logins, and IMAP/POP3 (mail) logins. These core services are locked down after too many fails from a single IP address. The lockout kicks in at whatever interval is set by the user, and lasts for as long as the user would like to set it. You can also set blacklists and whitelists for IP ranges that you know will never be valid. “—

    But this freezes my db. 🙁 Better than a ddos. sigh.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 09:07:00 UTC

  • (Dear Apple. Thank you for fixing with El Capitan whatever you F_KED UP with my

    (Dear Apple. Thank you for fixing with El Capitan whatever you F_KED UP with my internet accounts with the Yosemite ‘upgrade’. Very nice. Now if you only had told us how to fix it without a reinstall in the interim it would have been nice. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 06:02:00 UTC