All good things ...
June 1st was my last day at Jump Trading. I spent lots of time writing code in Python, Julia, and some C++. I worked with massive data sets. I built (testable) models of
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.
Implications of runs on banks
So yeah, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) had a run last week. Over the weekend various (self interested) people posted takes that ranged between pleading for bailouts, begging FDIC/Fed/Treasury to do things,
State of AMD's ROCm
TL;DR version: partially working on my laptop, compared with CUDA, which just works. On the same machine.
I have a $work machine with some nice AMD MIXXX kit, but I'm
Real science does not care about your narrative
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
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