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  Location: Fort Smith, Arkansas
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: AWS/Cloud, Python, Java, Node, Typescript
  Résumé/CV: https://chrisdempewolf.com/Chris_Dempewolf_Resume.pdf
  Email: [email protected]
  Website: chrisdempewolf.com

Senior software engineer with 11 years of experience -- cloud, data ingestion/acquisition, API design, microservices. I'm open to both 1099 and W2 positions. Currently working 1099. I enjoy the autonomy, but also like W2 for the collaboration and long-term ownership.

Saying that von Neumann was one of the first game theorists undersells it.

He wrote the original book on game theory! The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with Oskar Morgenstern.

Relatedly, MAD was his conception as well.

I've eaten the peel on a pineapple before. Not so bad actually.

I thought eating the skins on kiwis was normal

Even if FTL is achievable (which I agree, highly unlikely), it's still extraordinarily slow on cosmic scales. The closest star is a little over 4 ly away!

And probing the universe outside the Milky Way? Forget about it.

> Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star.

Well, if they observed not only a planet orbiting the star but also the planet's atmosphere, it must not be a very "distant" star.

It's more nuanced than that.

Yeah it raises heart rate and blood pressure bc it dilates your blood vessels. The raised HR/BP are to counter that so you keep pushing the same amount of O2 per unit time.

I don't think child rearing is supposed to be as difficult as modern society makes it.

As you pointed out, you don't have a lot of help in raising your kid. You're expected to do it mostly with your partner (or god forbid alone).

They've done some studies of hunter gather tribes to determine who handled babies the most. Turns out the kids' actual parents only handled the kids for about half the time (I think even a little less)! The term for it is "alloparenting".

Evolution did not prime us for this level of child care. Good luck to you!

Read the article.

Because this person's entire blog is just copy-and-pasted AI responses.

Did you just copy-and-paste an AI response an post it on your blog?

I'm a contractor (AWS and web apps), so I get a lot of sometimes-ambiguous requests. I have a five-part workflow via Claude/Codex skills: discovery->implementation planning->implementation->verification->review

Each phase writes to `./.agents/plans/{plan-name}/` in the project root. All in Markdown. That way, the flow is agent-agnostic. Each phase artifact is immutable after being written.

More details:

First, I put all the information that I have (documents, client statements, any code, my own summary, etc.) into a document. Which I pass to the discovery planning skill.

The discovery phase more formally defines the project in terms of functional requirements, non-functional requirements, constraints, risks, and assumptions. This might take a few passes to get everything nailed down.

After that, I being a implementation planning phase using the discovery artifact (`discovery.md`). We define the work in terms of phases, where each phases has various tasks associated with it (all checkboxes). Again, usually requires a few passes.

After that, I have a clear idea of the work needed and can send an estimate to the client. Or, if it's a personal project, get started actually building it. I have another phase for actual implementation.

Verification and review are similarly defined. They can be done by any agent.

On the sleep deprivation topic, adenosine buildup in the brain is, along with melatonin, one of the brain's core sleep mechanisms. As you expend energy during the day, adenosine builds up, so your brain has an idea of how long you've been awake.

Creatine recycles adenosine back into ATP, so less adenosine builds up. The amount of creatine you find in foods naturally is way less than the amount people are supplementing with.

So it makes sense physiologically why mega doses of creatine might negatively affect sleep.

Standard Ebooks has it too: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/p-t-barnum/the-art-of-mone...

I meant with Nix you're comparing hashes. With Docker, you're using pinned versions

It's like this with a lot of things now. For example, Nix's learning curve used to be a huge barrier to entry. Now with LLMs, I'm using nix-darwin and home-manager for dotfiles, package management, and have individual flakes in all of my projects for cryptographically reproducible builds!

At then end they briefly mentioned how they started a service to post-train LLMs on producing more human, less formulaic-obviously-AI text.

The difference is that the voice in the video is a natural, human voice. It's the robotic sounding voices that always pronounce the same letters the exact same way (mostly the Eloquence family of voices) that enable blind people to listen at superhuman speeds. You can't listen to a real voice that fast.

Source can be anything with the original text, but, more often than not, ends up being PG.

It takes people years to learn how to write a good patent. If you gave your lawyer your attempt at writing your own patent, they might use the info to understand what you want (you're right about that), but a good lawyer would probably just start from scratch.

Imagine you're a contractor. You have a client who knows nothing about software development that wants you to write some software for them. They give you some code they generated with an LLM to get you started. Would you use the code or start over?

What card games do you play? Do you have any recommendations?

Can confirm. I've been using Mercury for three years now for my LLC. Everything is just so smooth.

- Location: Arkansas, United States

- Remote: Yes

- Willing to relocate: Yes

- Technologies: AWS, Python, Java, Node, Kotlin

- Résumé/CV: https://chrisdempewolf.com/Chris_Dempewolf_Resume.pdf

- Email: [email protected]

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Backend engineer with 10 years of experience. Most of my work has been in data ingestion, ETL/analytics pipelines, distributed systems. I'm currently running my own company doing project-based AWS contracting work, but looking to return to a team environment.

The way I see it:

- Water on Mars: confirmed 2004 - Organic molecules on Mars: confirmed 2018 - Complex organic molecules (e.g., DNA precursors) on Mars: 2026

We now know for certain that it is possible for complex organic molecules to be preserved for ~3.5 billion years on the Martian surface.

The big question everyone wants to know is if life ever existed on Mars. Now we know that it's possible for that question to be answer, since we have confirmation of complex organic molecules actually being preserved.

This legitimizes future missions/spending on life searching missions to the Martian surface.

Just having JS disabled narrows you down by a lot. Yeah, fingerprinters can't use a lot of their more sophisticated techniques, but they still have a lot to work with as I understand it. I'm no expert though.

I find it incredible that the same olfactory activation patterns mapped to the the SAME smells in both subjects.

Yeah. You are fingerprinted if you disable JS and/or use a VPN. Read the article for more info.