The endgame
I generally try to steer clear of politics on this blog, other than to criticize
those who deserve it. I am not associated with either major US party, I've
voted for,
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.
Moving to zfs, a journey
The background. I've maintained a server for my home systems for more than 15
years. Originally built as a Frankenstein system, with random available parts
during my time running Scalable Informatics
10 years ...
A few days ago, on my daughters birthday, my wife turned to me and noted that
that day, was 10 years after her surgery. And she is still here. Teaching math
and science.
Scientific illiteracy and innumeracy are literally killing people
The omicron wave of SARS-COV2 continues, growing at a fantastic rate
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10340061/US-hits-second-daily-highest-average-diagnoses-rate-pandemic-began.html]
. The growth rate of this variant
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_
Length scales and perspective in the universe
This is something I've thought about quite a bit recently, as I've been using
high resolution images of galaxies as desktop background images. The idea in
short is, when