tomkat0789 (u/tomkat0789)

tomkat0789 commented on Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872... · Posted by u/stephen_g

nodar86 · 9 months ago

There was a post I think here on Hackernews by a university professor (of philosophy, maybe) about how student's performance have declined a lot recently and how he cannot do anything about it. Can someone help me if you remember it? I cannot find it for the life of me

tomkat0789 · 9 months ago

Was it this one? This article has stayed with me.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100677

tomkat0789 commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

tomkat0789 · 10 months ago

SEEKING WORK Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, scipy, MATLAB, C LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-thomas-01702183/ Email: mthomasmail@gmail.com

I'm a senior data scientist with a multidisciplinary engineering background spanning chemicals, renewable energy, and aerospace. Past projects have included abnormal event detection in chemical and energy systems, optimization, and signal processing and classification. I'm ready to take on any problem, in any industry, big or small, in data science, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, statistics, and any sort of modeling.

Reach out if you have questions about how you can extract knowledge from your large pile of industrial data. I'm always excited to learn about a new industry!

tomkat0789 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

tomkat0789 · 10 months ago

  Location: Chicago, IL
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Python, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy, scipy, MATLAB, C
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-thomas-01702183/
  Email: mthomasmail@gmail.com

I'm a senior data scientist with a multidisciplinary engineering background spanning chemicals, renewable energy, and aerospace (I'm ready to adapt to a new industry if necessary!). Past projects have included abnormal event detection in chemical and energy systems, optimization, and signal processing and classification. I'm ready to take on any problem, in any industry, big or small, in data science, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, statistics, and any sort of modeling.

I can do full time employment if you have big problems, or contracts if you only have a few little problems. I'm comfortable with developing and maintaining cloud-based, containerized, ETL services.

tomkat0789 commented on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool twitter.com/RachelTobac/s... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

tomkat0789 · a year ago

the new way all these online services suck

tomkat0789 commented on Loneliness trajectories are associated with midlife conspiracist worldviews nature.com/articles/s4146... · Posted by u/Anon84

tomkat0789 · 2 years ago

“results from a population-based sample of Norwegians followed for almost three decades, from adolescence into midlife (N = 2215).”

Nice! Largish sample size and 3 decades of following the subjects around! I wonder what else this group is learning.

The conclusion makes sense. When you’re by yourself too much your mind can get stuck going in circles without somebody to bounce ideas off of.

tomkat0789 commented on 'Better than a real man': young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends digitaljournal.com/tech-s... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

tomkat0789 · 2 years ago

I wonder if the article itself was written by an AI. The style seemed strange to me.

tomkat0789 commented on Comparing Tech Used for Apollo, Artemis NASA Missions eetimes.com/comparing-tec... · Posted by u/gumby

mattdeboard · 2 years ago

Dustin from Smarter Every Day posted a video last month of a talk he gave at NASA to Artemis stakeholders. It was absolutely fascinating and illuminated several lessons for any engineering organization's leadership. Highly recommend

https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?si=dHI-_EbDzcqJc-vF

tomkat0789 · 2 years ago

+1, I enjoyed that talk. He showed a diagram of the Artemis mission plan and said, “Does this make sense!?”

He also referred to a publication NASA created after Apollo titled “What made Apollo a Success” which is good reading: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19720005243/downloads/19...

“They gave you the playbook!” Lots of stuff that I’m glad somebody stood up and told the Artemis engineers and managers.

tomkat0789 commented on James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus webbtelescope.org/content... · Posted by u/gmays

pvg · 2 years ago

Maybe you're missing the 'Uranus axis of rotation is super tilted' part? Its equatorial plane (along with its rings) is not at all 'parallel' to the ecliptic, that's what the toplevel comment is pointing out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#Axial_tilt

tomkat0789 · 2 years ago

From your link;

“Near the solstice, one pole faces the Sun continuously and the other faces away, with only a narrow strip around the equator experiencing a rapid day–night cycle, with the Sun low over the horizon. On the other side of Uranus's orbit, the orientation of the poles towards the Sun is reversed. Each pole gets around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.”

Very different from Earth! Wow.

Posted by u/tomkat0789 3 years ago

Forget Oil. Wildcatters are drilling for “geologic” hydrogen forbes.com/sites/alanohns...

tomkat0789 commented on Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier historynet.com/mark-twain... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

tomkat0789 · 3 years ago

Twain’s escape West is an entertaining memoir! He did a little bit of everything and accumulated some great (if a bit tall) tales. I remember it has the story of his first stand up comedy act, including a description of some people he paid to sit in the front row and laugh at everything. Getting scammed, getting lost, a gold prospector who worked with a cat, and a great story about a goat… “Roughing It” has it all.

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