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My name is Tom.

I live in Arlington, VA.

This gal is my wife.

This is my personal page. I have other pages, too, like bearscare.org.

I feel strongly about bears, octopi and dinosaurs. And elephants, rhinos, and some large birds too.

Shoutouts:
My lovely wife Catherine!
My mom
An excellent bear resource

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Cognitive Biases

I love this Wikipedia page. It is, as the name of the link suggests, a list of cognitive biases, such as believing something will happen when it probably won’t because you really, really, really want it to. This is great reading for work because we’re all guilty of some of these biases and they do affect our work. Which biases do you have? I DEFINITELY have a touch of optimism bias with all of my engineering projects. For example, these radios will close a link because I REALLY need them to.