Mike Robbins (@compumike) profile picture

Co-Founder @ @CircuitLab

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
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Today I'm launching totalrealreturns.com/ - Inflation-adjusted stock charts.
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Number one on Hacker News 🎆💥🙂
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My first Kubernetes controller: hairpin-proxy:v0.1.0 github.com/compumike/hairpin… solves a kubernetes/nginx-ingress/cert-manager problem reported on GitHub issues for years. It's fun to dive one or two layers deeper and figure out how the magic works so I can fix it. More importantly,
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... doing the deep dive today puts new tools in your toolbox, and new tools expand your reach for future projects. The expected payback period is surprisingly short. But this doesn't fit with the conventional sprint/ticket model of software development teams.
"For a good conversation about ideas both sides should share a single motive — finding the truth. I'd like to believe this is the only motive anyone has when discussing ideas but it's not the case." harj.posthaven.com/conversat…
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Feedback systems pop quiz! What happens when you combine: (1) a process with open-loop exponential growth behavior (2) a feedback signal with lots of delay and noise (3) a not-very-smart controller that's targeting R=1? Answer: oscillations and (unfortunately lethal) overshoot.
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A month ago, I published my analysis of the pandemic as a feedback control system teapawt.net/compumike/status/12660…. (I didn't model shorter-term oscillations because I was focused on long-term strategy outcomes.) The bad news is that strategically, the US does seem to be targeting R=1.
"Surprising COVID-19 Strategy: Reduce Economic Damage and Deaths Simultaneously" youtube.com/watch?v=NuNrkG18… I analyze pandemic as a feedback system and show the policy frontier is concave down. Counterintuitive! There is no tradeoff between saving lives & reducing economic damage.
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The good news is that behavior seems heterogeneous. Heterogeneous behavior (both geographically, and between more-careful and less-careful households) leads to better overall outcomes than the homogenous models suggest. But those rewards are distributed heterogeneously as well.
"Surprising COVID-19 Strategy: Reduce Economic Damage and Deaths Simultaneously" youtube.com/watch?v=NuNrkG18… I analyze pandemic as a feedback system and show the policy frontier is concave down. Counterintuitive! There is no tradeoff between saving lives & reducing economic damage.
"You scored between the 100th and 120th percentile" -- looks like I broke @triple_byte's cool new software engineer skills report! Please don't fix, I'm happy to be in that bracket :)
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Domain name lengths of the Alexa top 1000 http://post.ly/2ORgh
McMaster-Carr's amazing same-day ground shipping http://post.ly/1JAs8
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robotic xylophone performs holiday classics (thank you MIT alumni) http://bit.ly/hq4hNq
Wifi at 32000ft thx to @GogoInflight (free w/ code HPUSAIRWAYS). PPTP VPN works too! Should I "apt-get upgrade" the server from here?
I'm attending Tech Cocktail San Diego Mixer (Dec 2nd) -- http://www.eventbrite.com/s/2e5T
How to mount an air conditioner in a horizontally-sliding window http://post.ly/1DDbN
Pacific Beach, San Diego http://post.ly/1CRNH
Driving back to So Cal: "US-101 Business?" "Nope, 101... Pleasure"