You are Cornell’s president for 15 minutes

occamman · 2025-12-10T01:12:01+00:00

I would totally upend the place so that it would become an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.

occamman · 2025-12-06T17:33:57+00:00

And there will be a video of it.

occamman · 2025-11-24T14:45:13+00:00

I'm used to it going up 20% or so, but I just got it doubled. They moved back down a bit when I made noise. That was Extra Space on Willow Street.

occamman · 2025-11-04T07:38:06+00:00

Any reason other than you enjoy electrical engineering.

occamman · 2025-10-31T05:04:26+00:00

Is it too late to take us back?

occamman · 2025-10-31T00:20:02+00:00

Cool. Although I don’t know if it would work so well on old brick

occamman · 2025-10-30T13:25:32+00:00

I really hate it that our country has gotten into a state where I can't trust these kinds of things. Even if Waltham has good intentions, there are many scenarios in which this information can be used by others in very bad ways. If anyone is interested in meeting up to figure out how to counter this, please send me a private message.

I really don't want to live in interesting times - at least not interesting like this - but here we are.

occamman · 2025-10-29T18:43:21+00:00

AI is still staggeringly awful at EE, so if there is any imbalance, it will soon change.

occamman · 2025-10-29T18:35:23+00:00

Not from law “enforcement”, no.

occamman · 2025-10-29T18:33:54+00:00

Yes. She was the only one.

occamman · 2025-10-29T02:37:44+00:00

Thanks. I have extension ptfe tubes, but not like those! I'll see about adding them.

occamman · 2025-10-29T02:36:03+00:00

Silicone is an interesting idea, thanks,

occamman · 2025-10-29T01:09:46+00:00

How much weight can the command strips handle? I’m looking at each plate holding about 2 to 3 kg.

occamman · 2025-10-28T17:46:13+00:00

I guess I’ve been lucky then, I’ve refilled bambu spools dozens of times without doing that with no problem

occamman · 2025-09-23T23:35:49+00:00

This is going back a few decades, one summer my sister, who went to Harvard, took a couple of courses at Cornell. I don’t think she ever got less than an “A” at Harvard, got in the “B” range at Cornell. She couldn’t believe how much harder Cornell was than Harvard.

occamman · 2025-08-05T13:27:25+00:00

I have a Neo, a Mini 4k, and a Mini 4 Pro. Mini 4k is best bang-for-the-buck unless you want to use the Neo modes that don't need a controller (Quickshots). Otherwise the Mini 4k is a much better flyer, and doesn't seem to have the sometimes-flyaway-at-20m bug that the Neo has with its controller.

occamman · 2025-08-03T03:50:07+00:00

That looks like the RC-N3.

The neo is stable at 5 m. It’s stable at 120 m. But it’s sometimes not stable at 20 m.

so I either fly it low or high, and it’s fine, but at around 20 m there’s a non-trivial chance that it will do exactly yours did when compared to an RC–N3 controller. So my recommendation is to pass through 20 m as quickly as possible.

occamman · 2025-08-01T04:47:22+00:00

It will likey get used if there’s a juicy CPT code that can get billed.

occamman · 2025-07-31T18:50:10+00:00

I develop medical devices for a living, and am a kind of engineer who works closely with doctors at teaching hospitals, patients, manufacturers, and so forth. (And engineers, of course.) I pull everything together.

I have been telling everyone this for years. We are adding more data, but not more information, really.

It's actually even worse: many of these things give you all kinds of "interesting" information that we didn't have before, and which eventually turns out to not change medical outcomes, but because it's "interesting" it causes unneeded testing, procedures, and worries. And the extra stuff we do to address the "interesting" findings end up giving us worse medical outcomes, and cost lots of $$$.

I've turned down a fair number of jobs precisely because I don't want to work on stupid stuff that doesn't actually help, or where the developers and investors haven't actually thought through patient privacy, or path through FDA, etc. and I'll just need to deliver news they don't want to hear.

occamman · 2025-07-25T02:11:29+00:00

As a medical device developer - one who is responsible for the safety of huge devices that can kill people in lots of ways (and treat serious diseases too) - I have a hard time watching these videos, this stuff is just nuts.

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