Dennis Allison

Consultant & Stanford University Lecturer

[Dennis Allison @d_allison]

@psaffo That year, 1955, I wanted to be a smoke jumper or summer somewhere in the mountains watching for fires.

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@kevin2kelly Kevin, plummeting reproduction rates will be a problem. Many scientists believe that the collapse may be due to organic chemicals we disburse into the environment which interfere with the evolved sex hormones. First thing: test the hypothesis.

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@psaffo Occasionally the Universe gets some things right. Russia assumes the presidency of the UN Security Council on April 1st, April Fools Day.

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@michael_nielsen Michael, Pablo Casals used a Goffriller cello (1738). Google will provide numerous articles about this cello. Wikipedia provides what appears to be a good history.

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@SteveBellovin @unccs Fred Brooks was a careful observer of process. The Mythical Man Month (1975) changed the way we computer people view projects and progress. The MMM book is still the goto reference for practical software engineering explained with insight, humor, and an occasional homily.

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Stanford EE380, 5/25 4PM Pacific -- Slow Music in a Manic World

Robert Rich (live streamed over Zoon) discusses his personal style of introverted music, tracing a lineage of sound focused on a listener's state of mind
https://t.co/OG9w8uj0Bv for access. Everyone welcome.

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@driscollis [3,3][3,3]

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@SamoBurja Orwell, Machiavelli, Kahn, Foucault, Zuboff,
Kleinberg, and Barabasi. Two other books come to mind:

Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing
John Harte, Consider a Spherical Cow

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@SamoBurja Choose three:
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War
Michael Foucault, History of Sexuality
Shoshana Zuboff, Surveillance Capitalism
Easley & Kleinberg Networks, Crowds, and Markets
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Network Science

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Groq's AI and HPC chip -- on-line talk today
Dataflow for convergence of AI and HPC - A hardware-software approach using Groq's Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) by Dennis Abts, Chief Architect at Groq.

May 18, 2022 4PM Pacific.
Abstract and access https://t.co/OG9w8uj0Bv.

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@grok_ What!!! You are not home schooling your kids? If you were you'd be in a self-appreciation loop. And you'd have an even longer must-do list.

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A project to design, build, fly, and deploy a prototype shadecraft satellite to be announced today. https://t.co/OG9w8uj0Bv. #DysonDots #GlobalWarming

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@paulg @typesfast @elonmusk Paul, I doubt if it would take that long to reverse engineer the functionality, but the support infrastructure may take some additional time. Getting it to be and automatic choice is harder still.

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@michael_nielsen When you are stuck, a three or four day trip up the North Coast works as a reset. Mar Vista Farm and Cabins https://t.co/jXnYMZ1PLc) has view, ocean, solitude, quiet, hiking, fresh eggs and fresh organic vegies.

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@michael_nielsen The Interval at Long Now at Ft. Mason. Superior drinks and next door to Greens. Or Cafe deStijl at 1 Union near the Exploratorium. A Spring evolves, The Ramp in Dogpatch, 855 Terry Francois St on the water. YMMV due to COVID and the inevitable churn of institutions as we age.

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@michael_nielsen @sparrigan Good place to hang or was, pre-COVID.

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@psaffo Or parsed slightly differently, it may simply state a fact that there is "No Democrat voiting".

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SU EE Computer Systems 3/2/2022 4PM Pacific

Dave Ditzel, Esperanto Technologies
Accelerating ML with over 1000 RISC-V/Tensor Processors

Abstract and live stream access instructions at https://t.co/WFV1YWCpeW

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@patience_not @BomurfT @OAlexanderDK @SulfoDK safer than coal or natural gas for generation of power.

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@michael_nielsen I think I am still growing intellectually even though I have been in the game for sixty plus years. The passage of time integrates facts and creates knowledge and understanding.