Joe Landman

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.

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

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

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.