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

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

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.

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

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