Relearning Maxima (Macsyma)
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
Joe Landman
OG High Performance Computing (HPC) veteran. Non-practicing physicist, Ph.D in condensed matter theory. Closet mathematician, aspiring astrophotographer. Hubby, Father, Son, Uncle. Human.
Backing up decades of data
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
On medical device company and insurance complex (in the US)
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
Annoying people
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.
Performance optimizing python for #HPC ...
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