tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243810382024-03-07T01:28:01.044-05:00Talons and FeathersTo work, play, teach, run, and fence! Some sleeping and eating thrown in too.Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-71671774510130394482022-07-24T09:32:00.000-04:002022-07-24T09:32:24.941-04:00What Processes Might be ExpectedWhen a grief-filled experience is too closely mirrored in the church as it happened in the world, there is probably something wrong. Even without it being the church I just had another experience where an accusation was overblown at my job, though it was probably not hiding ulterior motives, unlike my previous experience.While I think my recent experience is probably just due to some Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-13847240536191590792021-05-28T18:00:00.002-04:002021-05-28T18:00:00.178-04:00Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells SeriesThe Murderbot Diaries #6 StoryMurderbot has to help solve a mystery. I mean they all have been mysteries of one sort or another, but this feels more like a who-dunnit. There is a debate in my house as to where this falls in the timeline, if it comes before Network Effect or after. I maintain that it is after, but there are possible points that might need a bit more Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-24215393704497901142021-05-26T20:03:00.001-04:002021-05-26T20:03:22.174-04:00Network Effect by Martha Wells SeriesThe Murderbot Diaries #5StoryComing home from a mostly uneventful (less casualties than normal) survey, our hero (okay, not really a hero, it just wants to be left alone) gets construct-napped by an old associate. This is quite a bit more of Murderbot in a single novel, not just novella length. ConceptsDuty vs caring: One of SecUnit’s responsibilities becomes more like a Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-46272118803939721682021-05-24T17:23:00.000-04:002021-05-24T17:23:06.986-04:00Exit Strategy by Martha Wells SeriesThe Murderbot Diaries #4StoryMurderbot is on its way home (Or at least less hostile?) but finds out Mensah has been taken hostage. It’s already delivering data that could be used to tear down the evil corporation, but should Murderbot really care what happens or happened?ConceptsGrowth and Lapses: The amount of growth over the course of four novellas is possibly more than anybody Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-20867937053146603412021-05-22T21:09:00.003-04:002021-05-22T21:10:37.634-04:00Warm May I think I broke my step counter. We had a few hikes that added up over the days to over 30k steps in a day and another day that was over 28k. Other days were over 15k pretty easily. Now that I look at it though, my adjustable step goal is just over 10k. Spot on for some questionable science.That might seem reasonable, except that all through the pandemic I have consistently not even come Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-28399734795048219822021-05-11T14:06:00.002-04:002021-05-11T14:06:13.482-04:00This Time: Really Not Dead Wow, where to begin?Well, there was a pandemic. It is still happening, I am vaccinated, but it might not protect me from the new variants. As a world we have added, perhaps permanently, words to our vocabulary about situations we may have never imagined. And that is the least of the changes.My team and I helped facilitate the data for a few million swab tests with very little support. I Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-4475001541117786202020-03-02T07:38:00.001-05:002021-05-28T11:24:48.159-04:00Not Dead Again
Well another hiatus from writing on the blog. I haven’t died, but it was certainly an interesting period of my life. I no longer work at Macaulay Library, that was a weird re-org that seems to be still happening to others as well with less than forthcoming tactics. It still makes me rather upset.
In good news I found a company that was happy to hire me and pay me to be a Senior Software Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-25351194029987963112019-04-22T20:07:00.000-04:002019-04-22T20:07:29.485-04:00The Skylark of Space by E.E. Smith
Series
Skylark #1
Story
With inklings of space travel in the future this is a series of adventures starting solidly on the Earth that take varying amounts of time on alien worlds afterward. That is not a sales pitch.
Semi- Main Character Richard Seaton accidentally discovers how to “decompose” copper into pure energy. Through some dumb-luck and some governmental machinations that probably Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-38603010489450527322019-04-11T19:04:00.000-04:002020-03-02T07:05:04.948-05:00Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Series
Murderbot Diaries #3
Story
Murderbot does some investigating and ends up shadowing a team doing a parallel investigation. Surprising issues make completing their two different tracks very difficult.
Concepts
Pay it Forward: This definitely builds off of the interactions that Murderbot had in the previous book. In fact it is hinted how Murderbot would have carried out its actions if Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-11923106221425305452019-03-29T20:20:00.000-04:002019-03-29T20:20:59.021-04:00Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Series
The Murderbot Diaries #2
Story
Our “hero” is “emancipated,” sort of, but if anybody recognizes it as a SecUnit there will be very deadly trouble. In order to delve into its past Murderbot must attach itself to a group of humans and do what it’s designed to do, grudgingly: protect clients. And then there is ART, the BFF (Big friendly freighter, my own acronym that might have more than Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-7148986632992905612019-03-27T19:20:00.001-04:002019-03-29T20:06:11.201-04:00Episode 6 - BuggyPrevious Episode Index
“Something’s happening, it may not be your friends the Fislers, but we need to figure out who this group is.” Jeff handed Al the phase-linked glasses and a report. A few weeks had passed since the start of the operation and Jeff was glad to have any development, but he was taking a risk bringing Al to his temporary office, even if it was a nondescript Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-90581779142388481022019-03-27T18:37:00.001-04:002019-03-29T21:27:30.365-04:00All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Series
The Murderbot Diaries #1
Story
Teaser: A “Construct” (half human(?), half robot) is supposed to be guarding an expedition on a planet when a neighboring expedition stops communicating. As they are trying to figure out what has happened they are also “attacked.” Good thing the Sec Unit (Security Unit) hacked its own governor module.
This is novella, so it is shorter than a novel, and Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-44214153336460910532018-12-05T06:30:00.000-05:002018-12-05T06:30:10.004-05:00Fair Warning
If you ever want to enjoy a movie, radio show, or anything with bird sounds in the background, don’t ever learn bird calls and bird songs. I’ve said this before, either in discussion or maybe even somewhere on this blog. Actually, in counterpoint, when they get it right it really helps set the scene. If you want to start learning bird songs then try this Bird Academy class. Or if you are alreadyBryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-40987962058087496562018-12-04T17:30:00.000-05:002019-03-27T18:12:38.354-04:00Conflicted Progress
Read these two articles:
How To Be So Disciplined It'll Look Like You Have Superpowers
Mental Model Winner Take All
How can these two exist at the same time? One must cancel out the other like antimatter/matter annihilation. Or can they both be right?
Interestingly, I think both are possible, though the “Superpowers” article is mainly writing from the viewpoint of survivorship bias. ThatBryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-23228743983602494522018-12-03T17:30:00.000-05:002018-12-03T17:30:05.045-05:00And It's December
I just turned in my final assignment. By final I mean final assignment, meaning the last one in my master’s degree. I mean like if my team doesn’t miss more than four out of 16 points I will graduate on the 15th. I mean final like there is a chance for extra credit that is bigger than any other assignment that might mean the difference between me graduating and not. I dislike this class with a Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-7064379096544496532018-08-22T17:00:00.000-04:002018-08-22T17:00:03.852-04:00Last Class!One last class! I am a bit apprehensive, but since a large chunk is a group project and I already have seven group members I think that we will be able to do okay. I am not entirely sure what role I should take in the group, everyone responded to my post so it feels like I am coordinating, but I don't necessarily want to be the Project Manager.
I think I see everyone as having two roles, one of Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-29046528964367213222018-03-14T17:00:00.000-04:002018-03-14T17:00:20.573-04:00Ultimate
I will not complain about my proposal being failed just to get my attention, I will not. I certainly need to fix it even though it is better than most of the ones that I read and got some useless feedback about how it was better than the reviewers’.
Alright, but I do need to complain, you know, righteous indignation and all of that. This week I received a credit card promotion from my own Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-80306042664629389082018-02-24T15:46:00.002-05:002018-02-24T15:46:51.354-05:00How to Compound a Rainy Day
Watch the solar output when it’s super dark and rainy; it’s like watching your investments tank on a bad market day, but with even less ability to control it. Yeah, but it certainly compounds a sunny day, or even better: mitigates having to stay inside during an incredible day. Okay, barely.
This week I dove into the world of not Numpy with Java, ND4J. I didn’t even get into the ‘N’ of ND4J Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-86792174709842144242018-02-13T20:07:00.000-05:002018-02-13T20:07:11.411-05:00The Only Odd One is Me
Not to stir up any fears, but here we go. That in-the-moment feeling of everyone watching, while everyone else says they are not. Can we be real for a second? If you are not staring at a screen in a crowded place, how observant are you? Do you notice when someone does something, at least innocuous such as tripping on flat ground and then looks around to see if anyone saw? Yeah, sorry, I saw thatBryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-56941742681663500182018-01-23T17:30:00.000-05:002018-01-23T17:30:34.112-05:00Wait, Prepare, Wait
What is probably the worst combination in the history of the world? Promising and procrastinating.
I do this all the time, I promise my wife I will do something, but if I don’t do it right away I forget, or just plain procrastinate. I would like to say that procrastination is doing other things while still having the thing that you need to do in the forefront of your mind, but then I think Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-57695843892634456452018-01-14T16:46:00.000-05:002018-01-14T20:39:50.495-05:00Star Wars: The Last Jumble
What do you get with “space bombers” actually dropping bombs on another ship? A terrible premise that falls apart before the movie even really begins. And then a low-speed chase? Anybody with a grain of sense would have just jumped out a few destroyers and then jumped back in just on top of the rebel fleet, knocked out engines or power, and let the rest of the fleet catch up. Rebellion over.
Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-72808186206083397082018-01-14T16:42:00.000-05:002018-01-14T20:38:21.749-05:00Start 2018, Review Some 2017
What’s more disappointing than failing to do well in a class? Working hard and then failing anyway, at the last irreparable moment.
I didn’t actually fail, but C’s are no longer average and certainly not in a program with thousands of computer science students. I would like to say that I am a more well-rounded individual because I did other things that led to me not putting enough time into Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-44470380382056109812017-08-23T17:00:00.000-04:002017-08-23T17:00:36.635-04:00Solar Eclipse!
We made our way down to Kentucky and saw the solar eclipse! We did not go to Hopkinsville where there was two minutes forty seconds of totality, but we did see two minutes thirty seconds.
We got there quite early and were lucky enough to find a field that the town of Dawson Springs mowed and let us park on. It was close to the interstate and so we could make a quick retreat north Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0164 Cs-2038, Dawson Springs, KY 42408, USA37.177663929391308 -87.67671455332026737.127054929391306 -87.757395553320265 37.228272929391309 -87.596033553320268tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-63530732295503330512017-08-15T17:00:00.000-04:002017-08-15T17:00:15.187-04:00Tolerance, Once AgainDo not tolerate intolerance, it comes from indoctrination or ignorance. My previous thoughts on tolerance: Progress Stunted, Revisiting Tolerance.Bryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24381038.post-5545610587771472902017-05-09T07:35:00.000-04:002017-05-09T07:35:26.119-04:00Integrated Memory and What It Means
Can we see the next thing in computing from here? I don’t mean just the next fastest processor or the next larger memory, but a true turn like smartphones were, now that we are living ex post smartus. That is the issue, will it be soft electronics? A totally new way of non-invasive interface that allows us to control the new technology that might be around the corner?
As an unpublished, exceptBryan Gorgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017499870743304795noreply@blogger.com0