This past weekend, 7-October-2023 until this writing on 9-October-2023, has seen a horrific pogrom perpetrated against Israelis by a terrorist organization, Hamas. During the pogrom, we saw images of people celebrating the events. Celebrating murder and mayhem. Celebrating rape, decapitation, torture. Celebrating killing families. Sweets were handed out. Joyful singing…
Given that I am starting a new position tomorrow, I wanted to build a new deskside machine to use. One of my older cluster machines died a few weeks ago, and I needed to replace it. My deskside machine at the time, was an AMD Epyc Rome unit with 16…
I've accepted an offer from AMD for a Principal Member of Technical Staff position as Principal Customer Engineer for Instinct GPU Software. I can't say much about the role at the moment, though I am looking forward to the challenge. For those who have read this blog from the beginning,…
The context of this post is about an important decision, at which company I am going to work, that I am finalizing now. Every single decision you make between such scenarios carries a risk. You can't eliminate risk. You can, to some degree mitigate it by chosing carefully. The context…
It's been a year since he crossed the rainbow bridge. I say good morning to his ashes every day. It's still hard. According to tradition, at the end of the 1 year morning period After the year-long mourning period ends and the Kaddish experience recedes, the mourner reenters the world…
I have submitted, after editing/formatting/reviewing, my first SciFi short story for consideration of publication. The next (about) 180 days of waiting for the response, be it negative (19/20 odds) or positive (1/20 odds), are going to be ... interesting. In the mean time ... I have a position…
As I continue to explore the landscape of options for my next job, I've been having conversations with many people about their needs/wants/think-they-need issues. What is curious to me are the similarities across organizations for solving the same sorts of problems, with tooling that really doesn't do a…
Waaaay back in graduate school towards the end of my research first days, my father sent me a copy of "The Unix Haters Handbook". It was a mostly humorous compilation of complaints about unix in general. I enjoyed the book. A story within it had to do with how bugs…