Jan 20, 2021
Why is mRNA in My Vaccine?
Okay, this is complicated, so take a deep breath and work with me. When your cells are doing their thing, they need all sorts of material to get the job done. A…
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Jan 13, 2021
My Talk on AR/VR/xR Ethics
I was invited to speak at the second JHU/APL XR Symposium on something. When I pitched the ethics of augmented reality and virtual reality, I had no idea what I was getting…
Dec 31, 2020
UMGC Gave Me a BA in East Asian Studies
Well, this is just getting ridiculous, now isn't it? So, you know, many years ago, I was playing with YouTube and stumbled across some video on self-hypnosis. I couldn't find it now…
Dec 26, 2020
GURPS Disaster Hurricane Design Notes
This one slipped by me last month. At the end of last year, GURPS Disaster: Hurricane came out for incorporating hurricanes into your roleplaying games, and GURPS in particular. Roger Bell West…
Nov 29, 2020
Reinforcement Learning, Agent-Based Models, and Radiation Doses for Cancer Treatment
I have a lot of interest in agent-based models (ABMs), so I searched up in Google Scholar "reinforcement learning agent based model" and got this interesting paper: Jalalimanesh, A., Haghighi, H.S., Ahmadi,…
Nov 15, 2020
Lifesaving with Mixed Reality
When disaster strikes, what once was, no longer is; and what is, is unrecognizable. The ability to understand the way things were is critical for those working in the response, rescue, and…
Nov 9, 2020
INFORMS Presentation on Electoral Process
Natalie Scala asked me to join a panel at INFORMS 2020 on electoral security. Heading into the 2020 election, many people had expressed serious concern about the integrity of the election. While…
Oct 12, 2020
Phonics in JSS
I am very happy to say my new article, "Phonetic Spelling Algorithm Implementations for R," was published in the Journal of Statistical Software , this morning. This article is the culmination of…
Oct 5, 2020
Podcast on NIST Requirements and Blockchain
Federal Blockchain News is a new podcast by John Stevens dedicated to looking at applications of blockchain in the Federal government. This is some pretty arcane stuff, even from the standpoint of…
Sep 27, 2020
My Interview With Forward Maryland
Way back in 2018, Bill Woodcock and Jason Booms started a podcast called Forward Maryland with: Commentary, Opinion and Information about America in Miniature! This is the blog site for the Forward…
Sep 18, 2020
How Do We Know a COVID-19 Vaccine Will Work?
For reasons I am not sure about, I keep reading the Journal-News , the newspaper of Butler County, Ohio. And in a recent thread, it has come up that they do not…