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@skanman I am no lover of the CIA or even military in general... Im very anti killing and anti war. But i try to talk about it from a neutral standpoint and my judgements of my dad in that regard i try not to do since i dont know many of the fine details.

What I do know is my dad was a good man and he tried his best to do what was right by his own moral compass. Whether I agree with that or not aside, he was trying to be a good person and that matters a lot.

@AndyLowry To be honest only so much of it actually got to me. People like my dad are pretty serious about keeping the secrets and all.. but i do know the broad strokes at least.

@skanman There are shreds of hope? Can you point me to some of those please.

@AndyLowry This would be true, but it would weigh such an insanely small difference you couldnt hope to measure it.

@geantonicelli I have quite the family history to live up to in general onn my dads side.. there are books written aboutt my paternal lineage and its all a bit overwhelming honestly.

@freemo is the lighter light lighter when you're lit? Cause you can lower the lit lighter light lightly a little.. unless it's a Zippo.

I just realized... my lighter gets lighter when I light 'er

This is a picture of my dad, one of the founders of the CIA and top advisor to JFK.

Photo's caption, National Geographic April 1968, 1st Lt. Carl M. Freeman III:

"Smiles of welcome light the faces of Mnong women and children at Buon Rocai as Lt. Freeman pays a surprised visit. Devoted to the people's welfare, the American helped reconstruct a bridge and rebuild a burned-out village; with the aid of U.S. Army medic Owen Wright of Dallas, Texas., he expanded medical facilities to treat the sick. After four months of intensive effort, Freeman collapsed of exhaustion and malaria. Now recovered, he commands the Special Forces team at An Lac."

@freemo Agree, in is exhilarating. One of my favourite papers ever on applying for fun and profit: "Exploiting vector instructions with generalized stream fusion" by Geoffrey Mainland et al. 2013 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2500365 where the authors "describe a stream representation suited for efficient computation with SSE instructions" which compare favourably to C++ implementations.

@InternationalBrainLab I didnt even know brains could exist internationally, let alone that there was a lab that focused on international brains! :)

I wanna do a project in haskell soooo bad.. i just cant justify a full stack project with it for various technical and social reasons... but its so much fun!

I will miss the #borscht that our guests from #Ukraine️ made us. Very happy that they are quickly settling into their new home though #HomesForUkraine 🇺🇦

@PhDMarie Very cool career history there. I had a similar path although moving more from an R&D perspective than academia.

We are building a platform whereby you can identify diseases from a simple breath in rnear-realtime. We already have a successful prototype going able to identify covid with 91% accuracy. The cool thing is once we onboard more diseases the device can detect all diseases it has been trained to recognize without any additional time. So if one day we train it on 1000 diseases you will know which of those 1000 diseases you have with just a breath in minutes.

@jamesnovak We have taken donations at times from insistant users. But We are very well funded from my own pocket with enough money to operate for years to come. I suggest if you want to donate do it with time/effort even if that is simply sticking around and posting content.

@nKiaru If you add it as an issue or pull request on the source repo then i will be happy to test it on the next release

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