PaulHoule

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Software developer, community photographer and wanderer between worlds.

I live on a farm near Ithaca, NY. I've given talks on nuclear energy, chatbots, the semantic web and other topics and my publications have been cited in scientific and medical journals as well as Wired Magazine and Nintendo Power.

Some systems I've worked on: a voice chat service for the Brazilian market, the market leading open access e-Print server, e-business systems for car dealerships, wineries and a pallet recycling company, decision support systems for sales territory assignment, a collaborative visual editor for knowledge graphs, a social network for a secret society, a rich metadata database for the global performing arts with hundreds of Postgres tables that we should have built in RDF, a similarity metric for generic concepts (people, places, creative works, ...), a search engine for patents powered by a neural network, conversion of Freebase to an RDF graph with perfect referential integrity, an automatically curated collection of more than 1 million images of thousands of topics, a study of statistics of the sound of crumpling paper, and three efforts to commercialize foundation models before LLMs.

I served on a committee researching the application of OWL, RDF and other semantic web concepts to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard which culminated in the publication of ISO/TR 22126-2:2025 "OWL representation of the ISO 20022 metamodel and e-repository"

My submissions to Hacker News are chosen by myself working together with YOShInOn, a smart RSS reader that couples a workflow engine with a BERT-based classification, clustering and recommendation engine.

Software-related side projects are going slow while I focus my effort on building up a large stock of photographs to post to my socials. These show up first here:

https://gen5.info/fox/

Astronaut of science fiction and fantasy. North American Weeaboo. 狐系ケモノミミ

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PaulHoule9h ago

Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69393-1

Rising Air-Conditioning Use Intensifies Global Warming - Nature Communications

This study shows that rising incomes and hotter climates are driving a boom in air conditioning use, which adds to global warming. This highlights the need for clean, efficient and equitable cooling solutions.

Nature
PaulHouleMar 18

Death to Scroll Fade

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

Death to Scroll Fade!

The one where I crowdsource an argument winner

dbushell.com
PaulHouleMar 17

Researchers expose critical security vulnerability in autonomous drones

https://techxplore.com/news/2026-02-expose-critical-vulnerability-autonomous-drones.html

Researchers expose critical security vulnerability in autonomous drones

University of California, Irvine computer scientists have discovered a critical security vulnerability in autonomous target-tracking drones that could have far-reaching implications for public safety, border security and personal privacy. The UC Irvine team demonstrated how attackers could use an ordinary umbrella to manipulate drones, drawing the aircraft close enough to capture them or cause them to crash.

Tech Xplore
PaulHouleMar 16

Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2026.1779810/full

Frontiers | The price of accountability: corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies

IntroductionWhile corruption exists in both democracies and autocracies, its social consequences may differ fundamentally across regime types. Democratic nor...

Frontiers