User:Mindcrime

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About Mindcrime

Just some guy... See: https://plus.google.com/114301088526097505896/about

But in short... I'm Phil R., a hacker / geek / programmer / entrepreneur / metalhead / libertarian / libertine / rakehell / whatever from Chapel Hill.

I founded Fogbeam Labs, where we work in integrating Machine Learning, Social Network Analysis, Collective Intelligence, Collaborative Filtering, Semantic Web tech, and Information Retrieval to build software for helping people find useful information / knowledge.

I ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC in 2008, as the Libertarian Party candidate. I wasn't elected, but I was in a statewide televised debate on UNC-TV, and I received ~125,000 votes, which was good for around 3%.

In the past, I've worked for Voice Data Solutions, IBM, Ineo USA, Red Hat, and Lulu.com.

I mostly program in Groovy and or Java, and have also done C, C++, and Python. I'm working on learning Scala and Clojure, and I have an interest in learning (at some point) R, Prolog, (Common) Lisp, OCaml and Haskell.

I've been focused on software almost to exclusion for the past decade plus, so I recently decided to get back into hardware level hacking. I bought a couple of Arduino boards and spent a pile of money on electronics tools and parts, and I've been spending a lot of time at Splat*Space building silly little circuits and doing stuff with the Arduino.

I also used to be a volunteer firefighter with the Civietown VFD and Supply VFD in Brunswick County, NC. I was formerly a NC Fire & Rescue Commission certified Firefighting Instructor and taught Firefighter I & II certification classes, and LP Gas Firefighting, for Brunswick Community College.

Projects

Groups & Meetups

I organize a few local groups or organizations, including:

I also sorta kinda unofficially "organize" (ie, I run the Yahoo group) the Triangle Dolfans group - a group for Miami Dolphins fans located in the Triangle.