ggerules

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   by ggerules 5y ago

   Cliff, Thanks for being in this world. I still own my hardback copy of "The Cuckoo's Egg" from 30 some odd years ago. I also talk about the events that unfolded in that book to my students! It's a great story!
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   Thank you for sharing this amazing story. Now I need to go find this documentary.
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   Thank you for posting this.
4. 64.▲
   by ggerules 6y ago

   That was fun. Good luck to you.
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   Interesting tool! When I first saw this, the term "GOMP" made me thing of gnu gcc "GOMP" --> gnu open multi processing.
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   Thank you for posting this! It brings back a lot of memories.
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   Thanks for posting the link to the bigger list of books. I just love this stuff. I remember some of these from my childhood and my father's collection. +1 for posting this!
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   No, I haven't. But I'll check it out! I had to go the full route a while back. Yes, it was bulky, but got the job done.
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   by ggerules 6y ago

   A couple of things that might be of interest: 1) pandoc is awesome. 2) There are integrated development environments that allow you to write in markdown and output to pdf, html, and word with the flick of a switch. Rstudio with knitr, bo
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    by ggerules 6y ago

    Learning LaTex and tiKz help out with this. It looks like a presentation. So latex beamer package with some custom templates. The downside is that latex and tikz has a little bit of a learning curve. But it is worth it in the long run.
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    by ggerules 7y ago

    Well there is the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.... Details here.... https://www.ioccc.org/
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    by ggerules 7y ago

    I love stories like these. Are there any more from engineers of the time? Perhaps, are any more of his stories published anywhere?
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    by ggerules 7y ago

    I wonder if this would help. https://web.archive.org/web/*/hardware%20drivers
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    by ggerules 7y ago

    Thanks for posting this link. It's quite nice.
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    by ggerules 8y ago

    Good point about people confusing geomagnetic storms and flare ionizing light. To add to the last point about a CME that knocks out the power grid, I heard a presentation while I worked 2 summers ago at the frontier development lab, ( htt
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    by ggerules 8y ago

    Interesting read. Thanks for posting! It reminds me of a simple find the equation (symbolic regression) problem encountered in genetic programming. (see Koza's first genetic programming book).