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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Useful knowledge alert!
- Outnerded!
- Tindra med ögonen, ungjävel!
- Veckans ord: vårtrött
- God Jul!
- Lunch conversation
- Veckans ord: verklighetstorget
- More statistics
- In the top 6%
- Headshake…
- Veckans ord: destonation
- Rock on!
- Smells
- Another bridge
- Veckans ord: ingengör
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December
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Recently read
- Se, döden på dig väntar M Lang. [Reread?] I remembered the murder method, but absolutely nothing else.
- Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård M Lang. [Reread] Martel has noted how we never remember who the murderer is in detective stories, so they are rereadable many times.
- Rosor, kyssar och döden M Lang. Sex and drugs.
- The High Mountains of Portugal Y Martel. Closure of sorts at the end.
- Enciclopedia de la aviacion militar española № 101. It ends in the middle of a sentence, presumably one has to buy № 102 to find out how the story of the CANT Z.501 ends.
- Holistic Game Development with Unity, 3rd ed P de Byl. The code is very un-DRY. Maybe it’s a pedagogical choice, but it annoys me.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
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But what is it???
Folding@Home, one of these distributed computing efforts. All my computers run a lowest-priority background process which does molecular dynamics simulations of protein folding and sends the results back to Stanford, where they generate insight and papers. Currently some 250000 computers around the world contribute CPU time to the effort. The certificate shows that I've contributed 51000+ computation units to the project and the proud title exclaims that that means I am in the top 6% of CPU time contributors, which in other words means I have computers with a lot more power than is needed for just doing word processing, databases and web surfing. :-)
Ah ha. I figured it was something of the kind. I used to run SETI@home.
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