User:TimKelly

I am a far-left democratic socialist who believes Tech absolutely has a moral imperative to do the right thing. You will not find me on Elon Musk's X or Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook or Microsoft's GitHub or any of the "free" services that try to hide the origination of the money and the White Supremacist beliefs of the men in charge. We should not look away from the practices of these corporations and their complicity in genocide and the fall of democracy worldwide.

I have a B.Sc. in Physics (as a Goldwater Scholar), and a Master's degree in Resource and Environmental Management. I have first-hand experience with illegal logging practices and the local and institutional efforts to cover them up. I passed the qualifier exam for a PhD in mathematical models of infectious diseases, where I was working on developing a technique to classify models topologically by their bifurcations as well as using functional integration to create models with inherent spatial diffusion. I did not complete the degree because the field lacks rigor and is more useful for publications than policy. I have seen quite a bit of corruption and absence of integrity in both the corporate and academic worlds, and speaking out against it has cost me both jobs and degrees.

I have published articles and interviews in IBM's developerWorks on the Cell processors, as well as in the peer-reviewed Journal of Rural and Community Development, on developing and applying (in a case study) the mathematical foundation for measuring the circulation and distribution of currency in small, resource-dependent communities. My efforts in resisting gentrification in a former Jim Crow neighborhood within a city with 150 years of Klan activity won a $10,000 grant from a national non-profit organization.

I currently spend a lot of time writing code to compare genome sequences looking for molecular mimicry between pathogens and human tissue, while benchmarking the energy consumption to do so. The goal is to identify possible causes of "acquired autoimmunity," where the person has symptoms of an autoimmune disease but not the innate antibodies identified as the cause of it (they have elevated antibodies to the pathogen in the absence of the pathogen). My interests also focus on running as close to bare metal as possible, including the use of exokernels in heterogeneous computing environments. My preferred CPU architecture is the PowerPC/POWER platform, and Raptor is supporting my efforts to port an alternative operating system to their hardware. I have twice ported operating systems to hardware they never ran on before, but this will be the first time to a new architecture. More details on my past operating system efforts can be found at http://www.dialectronics.com and my analytical medicine work at https://mpjanson.org

I am a straight White Male who embraces diversity and thinks rainbows are beautiful.