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.

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

deleting IT departments?

Thus wrote a MIT Sloan school professor in a Wall Street Journal opinion bit [https://optionsmasterycenter.com/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-it-department/], about the concept of removing a department he felt to be unaligned with the business

On this day 10 years ago my wife called me at SC11

... and told me the results of a biopsy, that began this journey [https://blog.scalability.org/2011/11/ot-it-really-focuses-your-attention-on-the-important-things/] .  I was ready to pack up our booth and come home, but she said