In the soviet union, early in the 20th century. a political narrative was born. In it a pseudo-scientist, really, an activist, named Trofim Lysenko decided that it was politically incorrect to study or apply genetics. He insisted that Lamarckism was the proper, politically correct theory. And thus a narrative was…
In undergrad (Stony Brook), I had a math teacher (numerical methods class) who talked about this package he used in his research. Macsyma was a symbolic math package, sometimes called a computer algebra tool. Of course, seeing the likely utility of this in some of my courses (I am still…
This is a tale of backing up data. To date, I have a small-ish 28TB server at home running zfs (finally) on debian 11.5. This is my local backup target, and I take snapshots of my other systems over to it. Most of my other systems have 1-2TB of…
I use a CPAP machine. I've had one for, I dunno, 12 years? It started out being owned by a company that leased it to my insurance company. Monthly. For most of the first 8 years. Then that machine started dying, and as I found out, the medical device company…
You know, those idiots who take 2 parking slots. Or in this case, idiots in the (small) gym that insist they are using 2 machines at once. Not letting other people use them. And these are 2 of the more popular free weight stations: a Smith machine, and a dead…
It sounds strange, as python is not, by any stretch of any imagination, a high performance language. If you have a great deal of data you are working with, like I do for my $dayjob, and you need to performance optimize your code, you have a few specific options for…
I've been relatively quiet here on this platform, apart from my wonderful canine son. I plan to rectify this. At the end of 2022, we have a world where Intel is on the ropes in HPC, it can't deliver on a reliable schedule. We have AMD ascendent, and rightly so,…
I get recruiters sending me what amounts to obvious spam. The most recent one was for a "life changing experience". At the employer I left to join current day job. Others use search terms like HPC. And they see me in their lists. So they send me their invitations to…