Dan Fitch

Research Programmer

CHM Research Support Core

2019-05-15: Five minute update #1

Why am I always standing in the back and/or fidgeting with a ball?

Soft chairs: ouch.
Hard wooden chairs, or the floor: GOOD?

What I did before

Senior programmer at LTSB

Thinking about systems at an abstract level
Rewriting our legislative document system
Other boring technical stuff supporting lawyers

Back to school!

UW Flexible Option via UWM

Undergraduate intern

Working with Nate and John
The precursor to where I am now!

What I do now

Kinda the same programming stuff
but for scientists, not politicians and lawyers
If I don't know about it, I want to learn!

Study support

AFCHRON
- Experience sampling and game via text
- Video rating
FMED India project
etc.

Research Support Core

Backup for Nate and John
Wiki cleanup
- Improving onboarding resources
- Research Support Core library
Helping you!

Interests: Serious side

Consciousness and understanding the mind
Criminal justice reform
Large-scale group decision making methods
- Non-partisan redistricting
- Ranked choice voting
- Multi-member districts
- Sortition

Interests: Fun side

Writing and reading

Mostly scifi
Mostly obsessed with that good ol' question: "What makes us human?"

Board games and design

Amateur art (ink, air, gravity)

DIY music and instrument creation/collection

Electronics and Arduino futzing

Livecoding visuals at shows with GLSL

One Quick Trick

Control, shift, and arrows for text (many folks may already know it, but if ONE PERSON learns something...)

Have you ever been hitting the arrow keys a whole bunch, or using the mouse to lselect| a specific place?

Selecting words all at once can be handy and easier than trying to select with the mouse

It also works in the location bar, if you need to get to an exact place, maybe easier than clicking near slashes...

Or sometimes you want to select a whole bunch of lines, which can be real clumsy with scrolling and a mouse.

Word is especially bad at this across page boundaries.

I love cheese, especially blue castello pecorino. Cheese on toast swiss goat feta stinking bishop say cheese dolcelatte stilton. St. agur blue cheese danish fontina paneer cheese slices cauliflower cheese parmesan manchego feta.  When the cheese comes out everybody's happy fromage manchego fromage frais fromage frais dolcelatte squirty cheese fromage. Emmental melted cheese cheesecake manchego cut the cheese cheese slices cheesecake halloumi. Cottage cheese bocconcini cow.

Feta fondue edam. Gouda goat roquefort gouda cheesecake monterey jack fromage fromage. Who moved my cheese emmental st. agur blue cheese caerphilly paneer dolcelatte red leicester stilton. Taleggio brie the big cheese feta fromage cheese triangles swiss when the cheese comes out everybody's happy. Cheese and biscuits mozzarella everyone loves fromage frais jarlsberg mascarpone say cheese who moved my cheese. Who moved my cheese boursin stilton.

Cheesy feet bocconcini airedale. Camembert de normandie caerphilly jarlsberg pepper jack camembert de normandie ricotta edam hard cheese. Squirty cheese red leicester swiss cheese on toast squirty cheese bavarian bergkase bavarian bergkase when the cheese comes out everybody's happy. Danish fontina bocconcini cheesy feet fromage airedale boursin cheesy grin paneer. Bavarian bergkase cheese and biscuits caerphilly when the cheese comes out everybody's happy jarlsberg gouda rubber cheese cheddar. Cauliflower cheese cheese and biscuits cheese and biscuits smelly cheese halloumi queso taleggio brie.  Caerphilly when the cheese comes out everybody's happy croque monsieur boursin dolcelatte cheese on toast cottage cheese croque monsieur. Cheese triangles chalk and cheese cream cheese cheese on toast cheesy feet fromage frais stilton monterey jack. Everyone loves.

Emmental cheesy grin port-salut. Who moved my cheese smelly cheese red leicester monterey jack feta bocconcini smelly cheese cheesy feet. Cow pepper jack babybel bocconcini stilton cow cauliflower cheese stilton. Ricotta when the cheese comes out everybody's happy gouda smelly cheese cut the cheese melted cheese emmental who moved my cheese. Cheese slices cottage cheese who moved my cheese stinking bishop ricotta queso macaroni cheese who moved my cheese. Taleggio roquefort cheese strings brie cheeseburger monterey jack queso bocconcini. Gouda taleggio mozzarella parmesan paneer cauliflower cheese fondue who moved my cheese. Boursin edam the big cheese halloumi rubber cheese cream cheese brie jarlsberg. Bavarian bergkase.

Here's some text that you might not read. But it's still about cheese, somehow, I promise. The cheddar compels me!

Cow stinking bishop cow. Taleggio stinking bishop cream cheese cheese strings jarlsberg queso brie babybel. Cheese on toast dolcelatte pepper jack dolcelatte cheeseburger mozzarella cheese and biscuits cheesy feet. The big cheese cheese strings fromage frais cow ricotta parmesan cow taleggio.  Jarlsberg who moved my cheese cheese strings manchego camembert de normandie lancashire jarlsberg cauliflower cheese. Paneer dolcelatte croque monsieur port-salut everyone loves cheese strings port-salut mozzarella. Pepper jack ricotta parmesan hard cheese stinking bishop blue castello. Is there no end to the cheese?

PETS!!!

THANKS!

PSSST: talk to me if you would join a mostly-scifi book club