Grosvenor

Grosvenor

قبل 17 ساعةdiscuss

Sorry for the late reply.

Email in profile.

Grosvenor

قبل 17 ساعةdiscuss

I'm learning to break 4-rotor Enigma encrypts.

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قبل 5 أيامdiscuss

Heavy drug wars vibe. I love it.

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قبل 10 أيامdiscuss

My hypothesis is markets are fractally efficient and fractally competitive. Much like a strange attractor, they swing between states of efficiency and competitiveness.

The default regime is instability. Computational capacity is unstable through time, and the problem size itself changes (fractally) through time.

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قبل 12 يومًاdiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is. Often it involves getting hands on to find the data and signal that's really needed.

What I've done:

   - AI verification of building and architectural BIM/CAD against 400 page ESG standards. (Days of work down to minutes)
   - Part failure prediciton, saving a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Oil & gas well and lease production forecasting. 
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction (land runsheet), reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings

Things I'm unwilling to work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me with a short description of your problem. If it's hard enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.

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قبل 14 يومًاdiscuss

A major plot point in the Red Dwarf books is about Coca-Cola sending a fleet of space ships out to blow up stars so they can spell "Enjoy Coca-Cola" in the sky.

One of those ships crashes and the boys from the Dwarf find the service mechanoid, which is how they get Kryten.

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قبل 16 يومًاdiscuss

Microsoft did this with its "Playsforsure" program.

Naturally it got shut down and your media no longer plays.

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قبل 17 يومًاdiscuss

Microkernel, and hard RT scheduler from the start.

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قبل 26 يومًاdiscuss

How could I forget this! He also recommended the name.

Wolfram had come up with some normal techie names "computron", "math-o-matic" or whatever. SJ said No those suck, use something simple like Mathematica.

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قبل 27 يومًاdiscuss

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wolfram were friends for years. Mathematica shipped preinstalled on early NeXT systems.

SJ recommended some of the UI bits of the notebook. Particularly the separators between cells.

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قبل 29 يومًاdiscuss

I'm using AI to de-compile NeXTStep applications back to Objective-C source code.

The idea is decompile something like Wordperfect or Framemaker, then port the NeXTStep code to GNUStep and have WP on GNUStep/Linux.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Fuuck. Did Spud use vim?

We know Sick Boy (Zero Cool) would be an emacs user.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc.

They offered to help me setup an Upwork account too. Tiresome creeps.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first.

But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hired" after a curiously simple interview via signal, and had to wait for my "supervisor" to come train me.

Eventually I got the "boss" on the line to talk, he went absolutely postal when I asked if he was an African scammer. Apparently that's racist now.

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

SEEKING WORK | Data scientist consultant | Canada/Remote Worldwide

Most of what people call "data science" is now doable with an LLM and a weekend. I focus on the messy, ambiguous, regulation-heavy gnarly problems where nobody is sure what the right question is. With AI as an execution lever, of course.

What I've done:

   - Saved a German automaker from lemon law recalls. ($20M+ exposure avoided)
   - Real-time emissions detection for industrial smokestacks. ($75K fines per incident prevented)
   - Revenue optimization and persona identification for debt collections (15-20% net revenue lift)
   - LLM-based legal document extraction, reducing due diligence turnaround from 3 days to 30 minutes
   - Built vessel piracy risk engine that informed naval escort deployment, contributing to fewer hijackings

Things I'm unwilling to work on:

   - Gambling.
   - Ads/Surveillance.
   - Payday loans/rent-to-own.

Email me with a one-paragraph description of your problem. If it's weird enough, I'll reply within 24 hours.

Grosvenor

قبل شهرينdiscuss

I feel like there's honestly a space for "Greybeards Inc".

Maybe a consultancy of people who have seen and done it all before - Very selective of their clients.

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قبل شهرينdiscuss

Back when I was a young lad I wanted engineering to be a real discipline - formal qualifications, codes, held to account, and limitations on who could call themself an Engineer(TM).

But the money was so good we (The royal we) didn't think we needed it, that would just get in the way. Did you see how much FB employees were getting paid in 2015! Insanity! Now, even the skutters have a better union than us.

A plumber, or an electrician has a better union, and hence rights and protection than us.

But if you're building a brand new field you can still build a guild.

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قبل شهرينdiscuss

No one. The influencers are simply telling you you're wrong if you think you need that.

Which is the thing, we do need a single key that can be used for all those things. So we get PGP.

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قبل شهرينdiscuss

> * when I say time savings I mean dick measuring contest

And in this case smaller is better?

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