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Jim Harris

@jimeharrisjr.bsky.social
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Founding member of AIIA. Scientist/Engineer, skeptic, former FBI agent. Infointegrity.us. A character in "Easy Money" by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman. Once more a grad student (MS, Data Science) Board member at NCAS.org

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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Hunter Biden running a crypto meme coin pump and dump scheme is pretty depressing. A good way to cheer up from the new would be to watch "Everyone is Lying to You for Money" from @benmckenzie.bsky.social on Amazon Prime www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop’ Crypto Coin Plummets Upon Launching (Gift Article)
The president’s son portrayed his memecoin as a symbol of redemption. Critics denounced it as hypocrisy.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hope everyone had a lovely Star Trek day!
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is very cool... phys.org/news/2026-09...
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Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern
For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelgeuse using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Led by Bill Dent at the Un...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy birthday to my bestest bud!
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"If one accomplishes some good though with toil, the toil passes, but the good remains; if one does something dishonorable with pleasure, the pleasure passes, but the dishonor remains." -Attributed to Musonius Rufus
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Read “Failing Alone, Winning Together: A Neural Networking Story“ by Jim Harris on Medium: medium.com/@jimeharrisj...
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Failing Alone, Winning Together: A Neural Networking Story
After the last blog, I tried several ways to improve the network. Most of them failed by themselves, so I tried them all together for a big…
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Shot: lnkd.in/p/eJf7NFtz
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What If Work–Life Balance Is Just a Comfortable Excuse to Avoid Greatness? I have never understood the obsession with “work-life balance.” At times, I almost find it offensive. When you are… | Eva ...
What If Work–Life Balance Is Just a Comfortable Excuse to Avoid Greatness? I have never understood the obsession with “work-life balance.” At times, I almost find it offensive. When you are consume...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Read “Teaching a Spiking Network to Hear“ by Jim Harris on Medium: medium.com/@jimeharrisj...
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Teaching a Spiking Network to Hear
Gradient descent doesn’t work with a threshold spike, so we make a switch (a polite lie), and then use a real test case to judge what…
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Read “A Spiking Network As a Matrix Equation“ by Jim Harris on Medium: medium.com/@jimeharrisj...
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A Spiking Network As a Matrix Equation
One small matrix advances time in every neuron exactly, spikes become inputs, and everything can be reverse-engineered from recordings.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I just published The Neuron That Was Linear All Along medium.com/@jimeharrisj...
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The Neuron That Was Linear All Along
A brain-like neuron seems distinctly nonlinear, yet the equations governing its inter-spike periods are exactly solvable with a solitary…
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Still time to catch tonight's live stream of Everyone is Lying to You for Money with @benmckenzie.bsky.social www.everyoneislying.com/watch
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Watch | Global Screening Event — Everyone Is Lying To You For Money
Watch the special global streaming event celebrating Everyone Is Lying to You for Money.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Damn. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How is @theonion.com supposed to keep up when reality jumped the tracks long ago? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
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Beth, the Beloved Vacuum of a 92-Year-Old Iowa Senator, Has Died
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Read “Why Graphs, and Why Now: An Introduction to AstraeaDB“ by Jim Harris on Medium: medium.com/@jimeharrisj...
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Why Graphs, and Why Now: An Introduction to AstraeaDB
Nodes, edges, and embeddings are the building blocks, and AstraeaDB is a database built to keep them together.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My dog keeps shortchanging his morning walks I keep warning him that a quick brown fox is going to jump over him, but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hot off the presses! @theonion.com
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Not to be out done by that BA maintenance pilot, yesterday, I drew a paperclip with my flight track 🤣:
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This World Cup halftime show is some kind of fever dream...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Good. Enjoy prison, boys... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...
nytimes.com
Tate Brothers Arrested in Miami As U.K. Authorities File Sex Crime Charges
The arrests of the influencers, known for their misogynistic views, come after years of investigations in Europe. The new charges concern offenses dating back to 2010, officials said.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Context is king
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Even the conservative Free Press recognized this, writing, 'There is no modern parallel for the scale and shamelessness with which the president is enriching himself in office.'" thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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$6 million a day: Trump’s disclosures show he is the swamp’s biggest monster
Trump’s side hustles were pulling down 15 times the president’s yearly salary of $400,000 — every single day!
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Good evening
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/u...
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Judge Denounces Trump’s I.R.S. Suit as Improper Exercise in Self-Dealing (Gift Article)
The decision also recommended disciplinary action against the lawyers involved, including the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Here's hoping... nadinbrzezinski.medium.com/a-perfect-st...
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A Perfect Storm is Forming in Russia
Russia has lost the Ukraine war. And some folks say that Russia reacts badly to this and does not like to lose wars. To be fair, no country…
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Hot off the presses! @theonion.com
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is WILD... (gift article) wapo.st/4enjQBR
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Anything else you'd like, TSA? Maybe some Thousand Island?
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
That moment when you try to prank AI and end up with a very thoughtful and interesting history lesson:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/06/2026
Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants. According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet: “These people built the country, not the complainers… Me. Guys like me, they built the country.”
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sitting in the airport in Istanbul, and a certain "They Might Be Giants" song is stuck in my head...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Getting the week off on the right foot... Er, landing gear...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ex-CIA Official Accused of Stealing 300 Gold Bars Worth $40 Million From Federal Government ground.news/article/form...
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Ex-CIA Official Accused of Stealing 300 Gold Bars Worth $40 Million From Federal Government
A former CIA senior officer with top secret-level clearance has been accused of secretly stashing millions of dollars in gold bars in his home that he said he needed for “work-related expenses,” accor...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
True.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A subtle, but powerful argument that we are living in a simulation can be found in the fact that smoke detectors ONLY start their low battery chip at night. There's no logical or physical explanation. It can only be the work of a demented, evil scientist running unethical lab experiments.
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The More You Know Logo Animation
ALT: The More You Know Logo Animation
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It was a good day to fly...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Dustin decided not to walk on the trail any more this morning
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"The best any economist can do right now is get the order of magnitude right, and my math suggests the Iran war will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions. "War is hell. And hell comes with a hefty price tag."
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The most dangerous thing about AI is how it can materialize our worst ideas...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Trump Boys Break Another Blender Attempting To Make Oil Out Of Charcoal — theonion.com/trump-boys-b...
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Trump Boys Break Another Blender Attempting To Make Oil Out Of Charcoal
WASHINGTON—In an effort to reduce gas prices while “President Dad” worked to reopen “the Street of Hummus [sic],” Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. reportedly broke another blender Wednesday during an a...
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There was a weird blue light over the Tyson's Corner area last night. Clicked off promptly at 11pm. Couldn't figure out the source. Ideas?
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I am now 55 years old and have left a lot of impressive places. I will say this sentence only once: Threads is spammy AF
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Dinner is almost ready!
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"How to find the Ponzi Scheme"
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Co-worker: Are we living the dream? Me: Yes, but it's the one where I signed up for a class at the beginning of the semester and forgot it, so I've never been until today, and it's the final exam, and I don't have a pencil, and I just realized that I'm not wearing anything.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Peek-a-boo
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Unfortunately, Saturday's show is also now SOLD OUT. Thanks to all who signed up! Regular showings of the movie will start Friday at AFI Silver in case you missed one of the screenings.
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
How do you not go hug him?
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Jim Harris @jimeharrisjr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tonight's show is SOLD OUT, but there's still time to join us for Saturday!
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