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| Personal background |
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Semi retired 61 year old research scientist.
BS physics Stanford
MS physics U. Maryland (College Park)
MS statistic Stanford
Ph.D. Education Stanford (machine learning, speech recognition)
Lived in 7 states: MI, IL, CA, MD, PA, MA, OH
Currently living on my Grandfather's estate: Greenwood Farm, comprised of
9 acres, 3 story brick house, barn, huge lawn, creek running through
property. This land was sold last year to the city of Richmond Heights, OH
to be made into a park. I'll be moving back to California next year.
Projects: classical entanglement, rotary engines for hydrogen economy,
solar furnace, trickle current from gentle wind, implementation of Jeff
Hawkins 'On Intelligence' applied to speech recognition. The implementation
is in Component Pascal a superset of Oberon developed by Nicklaus Wirth
(father of Pascal). I am also teaching myself golf (3rd year) in hopes of
writing a science fiction story woven around it. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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1. I run SETI@home for two reasons. The first is to support the search for nonhuman intelligence. The second is very practical. It is to keep my computer (Windows XP) from crashing. When the system is idle Windows in its wisdom goes into a hybernation state from which I can not recover and must perform a hard reboot. If, however, I keep a background task running this powerdown freeze out never happens.
2. Finding any signals are extremely unlikely unless we are lucky enough to have a smart alien living next door. Are we broadcasting actively to other stars? No! But we do have passive broadcasts in our radio and television signals. Its likely that other civilizations are broadcasting in a similar manner which is quasi-isotropic and hence the signals will be weak at any significant distance from them.
3. Try as many different approaches as are finacially possible.
By the way! BBCodes are NOT the way to go. This is like Donald Knuth forcing
us to us Tex when perfectly good WYSIWYG editors exist. Please, please, do not
support 'syntax' based editing. Computers are for simplifying life, not
for complexifying it. Unix and its one-dimensional command line thinking
holds back the creative spirit (and no I am *not* an advocate of Windows).
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