Waaaay back in graduate school towards the end of my research first days, my father sent me a copy of "The Unix Haters Handbook". It was a mostly humorous compilation of complaints about unix in general. I enjoyed the book. A story within it had to do with…
I joined Shahin Khan of OrionX and Doug Black of InsideHPC to talk about the kerfuffle around Red Hat/IBM's decision to close off access to sources (behind a paywall with additional distributi.on restrictions), and what this could mean to the ecosystem. It was a great conversation,…
I have spinal stenosis. Which resulted in a sciatica like pain down my left leg. It got bad enough that I could no longer walk appreciable distances without significant pain meds, and rest. I'd even ordered, and used on occasion, a cane to help me walk. I scheduled…
Red Hat has decided to change the way it handles its source distribution for its enterprise products. This change impacts downstream rebuilders, such as Alma and Rocky Linux. Not to mention Oracle. This change has potentially very large implications down the line. I'll get to this later. Red…
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 things. It was a mixture of a research and software development position. I enjoyed it, and the…
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, all the way through people (without obvious self interest) who seem to know and understand the processes…
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 talking about the laptop I am typeing this on. This is an AMD Omen 2020, with 64…
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 or apply genetics. He insisted that Lamarckism was the proper, politically correct theory. And thus a narrative was…