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 tool. Of course, seeing the likely utility of this in some of my courses (I am still…
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 I take snapshots of my other systems over to it. Most of my other systems have 1-2TB of…
I use a CPAP machine. I've had one for, I dunno, 12 years? It started out being owned by a company that leased it to my insurance company. Monthly. For most of the first 8 years. Then that machine started dying, and as I found out, the medical…
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. And these are 2 of the more popular free weight stations: a Smith machine, and a dead…
It sounds strange, as python is not, by any stretch of any imagination, a high performance language. If you have a great deal of data you are working with, like I do for my $dayjob, and you need to performance optimize your code, you have a few specific options for…
I've been relatively quiet here on this platform, apart from my wonderful canine son. I plan to rectify this. At the end of 2022, we have a world where Intel is on the ropes in HPC, it can't deliver on a reliable schedule. We have AMD…
I get recruiters sending me what amounts to obvious spam. The most recent one was for a "life changing experience". At the employer I left to join current day job. Others use search terms like HPC. And they see me in their lists. So they send me their…
"In peace time, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons" - unknown My baby fought his war valiantly. He fought until he could literally not stand to fight anymore. Fighting until his body gave out. Today. I've been dreading this moment, knowing that…