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@AmpBenzScientist Shhh be careful ... They might be monitoring your sentiment now 😂

@lupyuen It's likely not different from most federal agents who read the same announcement.

@PawelK @HN I misread that and revealed how much faith I have in ML. It's powerful but it presents its own unique problems. It's bleeding edge in that field.

@PawelK @HN I also had plans for that but it didn't fit the blind flight idea. You will get better results than ML nearly every time. There's nothing that would stop such a tool from using a double tap analysis.

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@PawelK @HN I called it Blind Flight after the way some of the more advanced helicopters navigate in darkness with limited or no visibility. They use instruments only.

The ML portion was named Black Dolphin after a stealth interceptor helicopter. They were all named after helicopters. There was Big Sexy(CH-47F) or Chinook, Little Bird and Mil-17. The Chinook was for trying to document as much as possible. Mil-17 was essentially a database of learned data. Little Bird was training sets and detection of ML crippling data. Little Bird was meant to reinforce Black Dolphin's ML so it wouldn't be so easily compromised.

There's a lot more to the story than that but the amount of work never stopped growing. It would need to be ML like I've never seen it before or it would have required far more projects.

This is something that I suspected that the original Ghidra had some capability of. The VM, odd choice of programing language, P-code and the way that processors were implemented. That wasn't a list of assembly or even based on a processor. It could have easily made use of ML because of how everything was abstract (Mathematics Definition).

I do believe that Ghidra had or was planning on using ML similar to what I was working on. What I was planning would have been inferior to what I suspected they had years before I started.

That's effectively all of the remaining information about that project and the additional reasons for why I stopped.

"Smart Thermostats are saving homeowners money, but they are also initiating Peak Demand throughout the network at a bad time of day"

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This heat is really making me ill. Can't sleep, can't eat, throwing up.

I'd think it was heat stroke, but I haven't been in the sun, and it's been bearable for the most part inside my house. I've been drinking a lot, too.

It's probably lack of sleep and eating making me throw up and that's the same symptoms of heat stroke.

Just need some sleep. Time to try while the sun is down a little.

@inference

Headaches, loss of coordination and confusion are the symptoms that are going to get very serious if one doesn't cool off and hydrate. This is characteristic of heat stroke in the early stages.

What you are describing sounds like heat exhaustion which is the one with the cold clammy skin. Being deprived of sleep does make it easier to develop symptoms. I've only seen it a handful of times throughout my life. Heat Exhaustion is what normally precedes Heat Stroke but the climate here makes it a much faster transition.

You need to find a way to cool off. The US Army recommends a cold shower in the evening for getting rid of excess heat. You need to seek medical attention if your symptoms don't improve soon. I didn't know this was continual, I thought you were just getting sick occasionally. Invest in chemical cold packs and a better first aid kit.

What you are experiencing is more severe than I thought and I'm glad you mentioned it again.

@PawelK @colinsmatt11 @HN I wanted to be able to have a tool that could work on foreign military equipment. There's nothing that would really be known and the best that could be done is looking for certain patterns. That's why it took a different approach. There's more to it and that's another reason why I stopped. It never stopped growing. If it could get some information, that would be knowledge gained about something not known.

@PawelK @HN That's the best part, it wouldn't have any real advantage over other Microkernels. With microkernels controlling much of computer hardware, it could be useful experience.

@PawelK @HN It was a little different than that. I wanted to use Machine Learning algorithms to try and deal with the unknowns. The goal was to get it to recognize common instructions but without knowing what it was working on. It should have been able to deal with Multiclet and other architectures that the world wants to forget.

The project grew into 4 different projects and I realized that it was too much work for something that will have worse results than traditional tools. It could function with little knowledge and get some results. That was the only benefit of that idea. I stopped right before the ML part and realized it wasn't feasible to continue down that path.

It would be like making a portion of Ghidra just for the ML and none of the supporting code. It was doomed from the start. A team could have achieved results but why bother for something that would need to run on a server and run an indefinite number of iterations to get the code to potentially be accurate.

It was all ML and it was designed to work with the unknown. It was far too large of a project and it would have been of no real use. That's the reason why it was stopped. It would have lived up to being revolutionary and that's all it would be capable of because of the design.

So that's the story of what happened to the project and there was a disk failure during the early stages.

@thendrix I was going from the general reclamation of earth by plants. Grasses and weeds start within year 1 and by year 3 there are shrubs growing and little saplings. If you want a good tree for that soil I would recommend finding some Sassafras seeds.

Sassafras attracts Monarch caterpillars, smells great, has a really good root system, loves most soils like swamp or clay and it's going to grow quickly. It's a native tree and will reproduce enough to be all in that area. The roots on those are perhaps the best way to stabilize the soil. They spread out and form a dense web like structure. It will keep that top soil from washing away. They also like to grow into tight packed groups. It's a cool tree.

@thendrix It happens nearly everywhere down here. The only people I know who have known what to do were the heavy equipment operators.

It's good that the grass is growing and it should be a year or so before you see saplings. It sounds like a gully and shid fer if it isn't called that there.

@thendrix I wonder why we have steep hills and expect top soil and maybe some netting to prevent washouts. A Terraced Farming style would allow for soil to be stabilized by grasses and shrubs. The benefits are not limited to washout protection but also the buildup of better quality soil that can absorb water. Steep slopes can make the velocity of water very high.

I remember one hill south of ATL that took nearly 2 decades to grow grass despite constant erosion control work. I'm not an Engineer but I wonder if anyone ever questioned the 70°- 65° angle of the hill being the problem. It fixed itself by eroding to a more shallow angle.

"UEFI firmware used in several laptops made by is vulnerable to three Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to hijack the startup routine of Windows"

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@PawelK @HN I'm considering making a microkernel. There are other projects I might decide are more important.

I'm open to suggestions.

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