If and when we return to campus, we should do so in as safe a manner as possible. If you're at Illinois:
https://covid19.illinois.edu/pledge/
#illinois #covid #covid19 #uiuc #highered
Talk videos for the High Performance Python track at (virtual) SciPy 2020 have just been released. Don't miss them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYx7XA2nY5GfY4WWJjG5cQZDc7DIUmn6Z 🏎️ 🏁 🐍 💻 📽️ #scipy #conference #python #hpc
Go from counting bits in a die shot to testing for register file aliasing from software, all in this one super-fun blog post by Travis Downs: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2020/05/26/kreg2.html 🖥️ ⚡
This is what I see now when I try to access Google Scholar. Thanks, Google, very useful!
If you don't trust me when I say you should not use Zoom, maybe you'll trust Bruce Schneier or the Guardian? 📢🎥📷📽📺
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html / https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security-coronavirus-video-conferencing
Two tenured professors, an assistant professor, and a grad student walk into a bar and order- [See below for full text options]
"Re-toot" from https://academicssay.tumblr.com/post/613654486517465088/two-tenured-professors-an-assistant-professor :)
https://academic.microsoft.com is another service competing with Google Scholar! From (attempting to) claim my profile there, it looks like they put in some manual labor to improve data quality. 🎉 #academic #publication #search
I am troubled by the dominance of Google Scholar as both an academic search engine and as a proxy means for evaluating academic productivity, especially when viewed in light of its lack of transparency and unclear governance. It *certainly* troubled me when Google Scholar randomly blocked my IP address with no discernible recourse. TIL about https://www.base-search.net/, some much-needed competition in this space. #academic #search #publishing
Happy new year from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center! :) Arrived back in the US into Dulles airport, and... #blackbird #sr71
It is an embarrassment that the Association for Computing Machinery (but notably *not* SIAM or the AMS, phew!) joined Elsevier and other commercial publishers in trying to torpedo a requirement on open-access publishing of federally funded research. https://bit.ly/34H1vbz
The call for contributions (talks and posters) for SciPy2020 is open now. Submit your work! Together with Laurie Stephey, I am chairing the "High Performance Python" track. See you in Austin in July! https://www.scipy2020.scipy.org/talk-poster-presentations #scipy #conference #hpc #austin #hpcpy
If you are looking to register for CS555 (Numerical Methods for PDEs) with me in the Spring of 2020: The CSE510 crosslist is open now for Engineering students, CS555 will open to campus on Dec 12. 🎓 👨🏫 🏫 https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2020/spring/CS/555
Help Mozilla collect/confirm voice samples to make open-source speech recognition/synthesis competitive! https://voice.mozilla.org/ - https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/v0.6.0
Illinois CS is hiring this year - with numerous open tenure track positions in ALL areas. Apply now!
It appears that I was wrong. I no longer believe that Intel's CPU OpenCL runtime is open-source software. The "build instructions" point back to the binary release to download the runtime. 😡😩 https://bit.ly/2kky2mO
Open source in academia, or really anywhere: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.” - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0
Good advice from Denis Bakhvalov: How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux - https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/08/02/Perf-measurement-environment-on-Linux #linux #hpc #benchmarking
Want to learn things like this? Look for the next edition of my HPC abstractions class: https://bit.ly/hpcabstr-f18