User:Dank
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Nick Black. I run this wiki. Try to avoid ending up on my Enemies list. Here are some other data streams I generate:
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- Nick I labor, and write innumerable theses, notes, poems, stories, and junk; I go to the math lib and read, make stenches in three different labs, talk learnedly to a few lost souls, go off for the weekend to distill the low grade energy into laughter and exhaustion, read Greek, commit faux pas, search my desk for letters, and wish I were dead. Voilà. (September 02, 2010 20:54)
- Nick "in layman's terms, we'll expand the taylor polynomial" ahhh, GT, it's good to be back. (September 02, 2010 10:03)
- Nick new job is pretty much settled on; hopefully there'll be an offer to move forward with tomorrow or friday. a totally unsurprising destination, all told; we'd been looking to get together for close to five years, but it just never felt right.... :D 1 Samuel 3:9 and so forth. (September 01, 2010 22:48)
- Nick "It is scarcely possible to conceive of the laws of motion if one looks at them from a tennis ball's point of view." - Bertolt Brecht. (September 01, 2010 14:07)
- Nick i'm unsure whether BoA's chat-based help is (a) an automata, or at least an automata frontend, (b) very foreign or (c) just restricted to a tiny set of queries/responses/platitudes, but it's probably goddamn cheap either way. i'm unnverved, but impressed. back to researching how to build bookshelves! (August 31, 2010 15:23)
- Nick rocky mountain no longer allows smoking before 1500 on weekdays. truly we have reached childhood's end; when i arrived at GT, you could suffuse afghan hash over coals of your broken dreams and bubble it through a dead man's skullbong without second looks. le sigh! where have all the cowboys gone? (August 30, 2010 13:44)
- Nick just overheard three people earnestly arguing about whether thin lizzy or lizzie borden was the (alleged) hatchet murderer, and literally thought he might just fucking die. perhaps it was lizzie mcguire! or maybe the borden dairy company, hrrmmrmrmrmr?!? maybe anthony bordain! or pittsburgh pirate dock ellis! sacré dieu! i just blew four lenticulostriate arteries and might not be done. (August 29, 2010 15:35)
- Nick has been dealing with a special and unique brand of stupidity all day. btw don't bother calling me, as i've been decellularized by decatur. hope to see y'all at the various parties tonight but i might be too pissed off to go anywhere. (August 28, 2010 23:36)
- Nick holt fucking shit I hate decatur and everything within it. (August 28, 2010 02:53)
- Nick people, must we really go for heart's "magic man" on the jukebox? my mom told me never to play this song until the sex has actively started. (August 28, 2010 00:43)
Money. Cache. Hoes
- a band of brothers (and a lady from nsa)
- avast! sailing the seas of posix and gnu make, i shot the ALBATROSS
- my goodness! a felicitous discovery
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
- and I'll teach you, teach you, teach you, I'll teach you the numeric slide
- mother of god
- totalwonkerr gone??!
- computer scientist trading card 2/32
- at long last, a line of puerile computer scientist trading cards
- chaitin's book
- automatic extraction of parallelism
- nickblack: RT @melonakos: RT @sakabatou666: Matlab jacket to GPU can speed up to 300 times! #wttc2010 <-- Thanks for the shoutout! (August 25, 2010 09:55)
- nickblack: Newcastle summer ale gets a mighty "ehhhhh" (@ The Vortex Bar & Grill) http://4sq.com/3hYsRK (August 23, 2010 19:49)
- nickblack: GT is back in session. Good luck, kids; we'll see how many of you remain after a year muh wa hahahaha! BTW those pops you hear are gunshots. (August 23, 2010 08:51)
- nickblack: RT @FakeGeorgiaTech: [Campus Bulletin] We thought we'd host a Welcome Back Scavenger Hunt on campus this weekend. The only item on the l ... (August 21, 2010 17:17)
- nickblack: last day on myrtle; gotta have some papi's! (@ Papi's Cuban & Carribbean Grill w/ 2 others) http://4sq.com/8rYeTo (August 20, 2010 14:30)
- nickblack: RT @dark_dred: @wangooo {FREE DUBSTEP EP DOWNLOAD} I made $5.60 on Tunecore ....So here's my EP FOR FREE!!!!!!! -> http://bit.ly/bKNz ... (August 20, 2010 14:04)
- nickblack: @thestringpuller oh not anymore though. Speakeasy's time has come and gone (August 20, 2010 09:52)
- nickblack: debsums -s 2>&1 | cut -d\( -f2- | cut -d\ -f2 | sort -u | xargs sudo aptitude reinstall hurrah! (August 18, 2010 01:03)
- nickblack: "cybrarian" are you for fucking real? (August 11, 2010 21:11)
- nickblack: If you can't smoke in a waffle house than what the hell good is it? I'll be departing! (@ Waffle House) http://4sq.com/9ndfdL (August 11, 2010 02:49)
shared google reader items
- DF-21 Delta: Some Early ThoughtsArms Control Wonk
- Long Out Of Order Queueing DelaysBits Up!
- Feature: Thomas Edison's plot to hijack the movie industryArs Technica
- Your worst enemy: undefined symbolsFlameeyes's Weblog
- Only two satellites left in Russia's early-warning systemRussian strategic nuclear forces
- The future of SolarisAdam Leventhal's blog
- The need for triple-parity RAIDAdam Leventhal's blog
- Beyond Locks and Messages: The Future of Concurrent Programming Bartosz Milewski's Programming Cafe
- Reversible Markov ChainsArs Mathematica
- The ormat gamebit-player
- Caution - (S)Low Bridge AheadBits Up!
- Forwarding Decisions with Bloom FiltersBits Up!
- FOCS 2010 Accepted Papers (with pdf files)My Brain is Open
- China's big bet on fast reactorsIdaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes
- TACC On Memory Performance in a ClusterinsideHPC
- Welcome to the ThicketPenguin.SWF
- Solving Different ProblemsPenguin.SWF
- What happened to Sprint?Renesys Blog
- Bourbaki and the miracle of silenceneverendingbooks
- math & manic-depression, a Faustian bargainneverendingbooks
Goodreads
- Nick added 'The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929 - 1940'
- Nick marked as to-read: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 1, 1929 - 1940 (Hardcover) by Samuel Beckett
bookshelves: to-read
[?] - Nick added 'Men of Mathematics'
- Nick is currently reading: Men of Mathematics (Touchstone Book) by Eric Temple Bell
bookshelves: currently-reading
[?] - Nick added 'Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics'
- Nick gave 3 stars to: Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) by Amir Alexander
groundbreaking and meticulous research regarding the lives of galois, d'alambert, and abel (strongly refuting bell's the men of mathematics), but pretty repetitive after that, and lacking support for its central thesis.
the first book to have been read (for the first time, otherwise it'd be my cousin my gastroenterologist) in my new, permanent residence, hurrah! http://dank.qemfd.net/dankwiki/index.php... w00t
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http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Re... (linked to from http://www.aldaily.com) [?] - Nick added 'Nano : The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology'
- Nick gave 2 stars to: Nano : The Emerging Science of Nanotechnology (Paperback) by Ed Regis
bookshelves: snap-crackle-pop-science
Kinda shrill about the technology, but Eric Drexler's vision (as ripped off from Richard Feynman's famous "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture) is becoming a reality.
Gotta love the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Building here at GT! [?] - Nick added 'Descriptive Complexity'
- Nick marked as to-read: Descriptive Complexity (Texts in Computer Science) by Neil Immerman
bookshelves: important, pimpin-aint-easy-but-computers-are, stupidlyexpensive, to-acquire, to-read
[?] - Nick added 'Information Theory, Inference & Learning Algorithms'
- Nick marked as to-read: Information Theory, Inference & Learning Algorithms (Hardcover) by David J.C. MacKay
bookshelves: she-blinded-me-with-science, to-acquire, to-read
http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/2010/07... [?] - Nick added 'An Introduction to Information Theory'
- Nick marked as to-read: An Introduction to Information Theory (Paperback) by John R. Pierce
bookshelves: she-blinded-me-with-science, to-acquire, to-read
[?] - new comment from Nick
- New comment on Nick's review of Essays
by George Orwell
Elizabeth wrote: "You might also like Leonard Woolf's political writings. He was also a Fabian, although he ran as a Labor candidate for Parliament.
PS - Good luck with the move."
thanks! let's see if nick can find, purchase, and move into a new home in one friday. you'd think not, but I know which horse i'm betting on! :D
i think i might start identifying myself as a fabian. [?] - Nick added 'Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska'
- Nick marked as to-read: Amchitka and the Bomb: Nuclear Testing in Alaska (Hardcover) by Dean W. Kohlhoff
bookshelves: oppenheimania, to-acquire, to-read
http://krepon.armscontrolwonk.com/archiv... [?] - Nick added 'Essays'
- Nick gave 5 stars to: Essays (Hardcover) by George Orwell
bookshelves: read-multiple-times
man, this book is such a great old friend.
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Orwell is skyrocketing up my list of major 20th century writers with every one of the 255 pages I've thus far read of this 1300+ page behemoth. The man was amazingly prescient, at a deep, detailed level.
This was one of the best collections of essays I've ever read, probably second only to Freeman Dyson's The Scientist as a Rebel. Across 1363 pages of essays from 1928-1949 (the vast majority of them coming from 1938-1946), written for a wide gamut of publications, Orwell manages to repeat himself only a few times (usually clearly-relished zingers) -- a fine show of editing, as each annoying bit of repetition is found within an essay that simply couldn't have been left out due to other unique, interesting points. Having read it, I feel far more conversant with the politics of the pre-war years, the Fabian Society-inspired English breed of socialism, the demise of realpolitik as Fascism's yoke was affixed, battled and finally thrown off...Orwell is one of the most intelligent, aware and just amazingly foresighted authors of the twentieth century, and this book will find itself a place near my mattress for some time. [?]
GitHub
- dankamongmen pushed to master at dankamongmen/dankhome
- dankamongmen pushed to master at dankamongmen/cubar
- dankamongmen pushed to master at dankamongmen/libtorque
- dankamongmen pushed to master at dankamongmen/libcudest
libtorque commits
- don't go explicitly looking for gcc versions; if people have a special compiler installed, they can damn well export CC
- yeaaargh
- only use alloc_size(z) attribute on gcc 4.3+
- add .svg to doc/figures
- s/DFLAGS/IFLAGS for ssl -I parameter
- detect XOP/FMA4. decode XOP/FMA4/CVT16 (AMD's AVX implementation, replacing SSE5)
- dump sse4{.1, .2, a} extensions in archdetect
- cuda software version isn't per card; don't store or display it thus. support externally-set CUDADIR
- hrmm, how best to handle cuda? might move to opencl model overall
- always output latex to .out/doc/paper
- integration
- hotpar 2010 paper + makefile integration
- update torque.3 for header name
- fix up makefile for new man page names
- add torque suffix/subsection to manpages
- correct reference to INCINSTALL
- fix freebsd build
- Merge branch 'master' of github.com:dankamongmen/libtorque
- generate useful output for dot check
- get and display cuda version numbers
last.fm
- 311 – Do You Right
- http://www.last.fm/music/311 [?]
- Three 6 Mafia – Stay Fly (ft. Young Buck, Eightball, MJG)
- http://www.last.fm/music/Three+6+Mafia [?]
- Twista – Get Me
- http://www.last.fm/music/Twista [?]
- Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
- http://www.last.fm/music/Wheatus [?]
- Infected Mushroom – Virtual Voyage
- http://www.last.fm/music/Infected+Mushroom [?]
- Infected Mushroom – Release Me
- http://www.last.fm/music/Infected+Mushroom [?]
- Ini Kamoze – Here comes the hotstepper (boyyaka remix)
- http://www.last.fm/music/Ini+Kamoze [?]
- Paul Wall – They Dont Know Ft. Mike Jones
- http://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Wall [?]
- Trick Daddy – Let's Go (feat. Twista & Lil' Jon)
- http://www.last.fm/music/Trick+Daddy [?]
- Beastie Boys – Sabotage
- http://www.last.fm/music/Beastie+Boys [?]
