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diff --git a/tmp/common_as_air_book_nots.txt b/tmp/common_as_air_book_nots.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6adfa66..0000000 --- a/tmp/common_as_air_book_nots.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ ---- -format: rst -categories: book -toc: no -... - - -============================ -Common as Air -============================ - -:by: Lewis Hyde - -.. warning: These notes still in progress! - -p50: double telescope story (patents are public) - -p51: old history of publishers over authors - -land as canonical property: feudal commons, then enclosure - -p61: present value analysis says 20+ year copyright no incentive today - -p73: copyright over cage's 4'3" ! (actually trademark) - -stinted markets: not "free" - -allodial vs. feudal ownership - -p125: "patent of importation" given to immigrant (not inventor) - -p129: franklin loved "public and durable knowledge" - diff --git a/tmp/expat.txt b/tmp/expat.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0583474..0000000 --- a/tmp/expat.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -====================================== -On The Merits of Expartiatization -====================================== - -"Hairshirting" must be avoided: the benefits of all human progress should be -leveraged going forward, and technologies and lessons learned under flawed and -unjust organizations should not be ignored. The point is not to drop off, -abandon, or boycott the polical grid, it is to create a new and improved -subnetwork of the grid. - -Change happens when things are done well. - -The United States, and arguably many other developed western captialist -democracies, is stuck in a rut: political and social progress has slowed to a -halt and momentum has been lost. It is unclear whether there is a significant -backslide taking place or if this is just the perception from a lack of -progress. - -Other Places ---------------- - -Unused infrastructure is good. - -A balance of resources is good: enough to not be desperately dependant, but not so many that outside forces will be attracted. - - diff --git a/tmp/numerical_computation.txt b/tmp/numerical_computation.txt deleted file mode 100644 index ca606b9..0000000 --- a/tmp/numerical_computation.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ - -Link Dump on Numerical Computation Topics -============================================ - -"Issues in Numerical Computing With Java" (NIST) -http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/reports/issues.html#StandardInterfaces - -"Guide to Available Mathematical Software" -http://gams.nist.gov/ - -netlib - -http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/ - -"Tools for Evaluating Mathematical and Statistical Software" (NIST dept) -http://math.nist.gov/temss/ - -"Statistical Reference Datasets" (NIST) -http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/ - -"Digital Library of Mathematical Functions" software comparison page -http://dlmf.nist.gov/software/ - -"Computer Physics Communications Program Library" -http://www.cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/ - -"The Table Maker's Dilemma: our search for worst cases" -http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/Intro-to-TMD.htm - -Third-Party Commercial Libraries: - http://www.nag.com/library_details_table - http://www.roguewave.com/products-services/imsl-numerical-libraries diff --git a/tmp/nz.page b/tmp/nz.page deleted file mode 100644 index 0c50c5d..0000000 --- a/tmp/nz.page +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -================ -New Zealand -================ - -Justice System ----------------- - -203 prisoners per 100k, vs. 760 for USA and 55 for Iceland. - -Military -------------- -2.3/2.8% of population is active/total military, vs. 5.1/9.8% in the USA. 1% of -GDP (NZ 1.7 billion) vs. 4.7% ($692 billion) for USA. - -Sent some troops for Afghanistan War, sent engineers but not soldiers to Iraq. - -#2 in "Global Peace Index", USA #82/153. - -During the Vietnam War, Agent Orange chemicals were produced in New Zealand and -shipped to US forces in Vietnam. - -Privacy, Spycraft -------------------- - -NZ participates in US/Canada/UK/Australian spying and information sharing, -including ECHELON, with 2 ECHELON ground sites in NZ. - -Economy ------------- -"Westpac CEO gets $5.4m [NZD] pay packet [...] The figure likely makes him the -highest paid CEO in New Zealand this year." (2011; roughly $4.2m USD) - -http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5962549/Westpac-CEO-gets-5-4m-pay-packet - diff --git a/tmp/review_nonblocking_verilog_kill b/tmp/review_nonblocking_verilog_kill deleted file mode 100644 index 296f8c5..0000000 --- a/tmp/review_nonblocking_verilog_kill +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -to: team@leaflabs.com -subj: paper review: "Nonblocking Assignments in Verilog Synthesis..." - -TL;DR: this is something like a "goto considered harmful" w/r/t using confusing -blocking assignment in (non-sythesizable?) Verilog. - -# Context - -This paper was written in 2000 and seems to target Verilog programmers who -write non-synthesizable simulation code. Despite the word "Synthesis" in the -title. After reading, the implication that this paper might have any new -insights for an engineer whose failure might "kill" stikes fear in my gut. - -Apparently this won a "Best Paper" award at a conference back when it was -published. - -On page 15 there is a note about about synthesis performance: "The latter would -be inefficient from a simulation time perspective"; perhaps this was the -historical temptation of these bad practices? - -# Judgement - -There's really nothing new here (for jess/aj/bryan at least): for sequential -logic use nonblocking assignment in always@ blocks, and for combinatoral logic -use 'assign' statements outside of a block, unless you have something really -tight and complicated going on, in which case use an always block with a -carefully selected sensitivity list and all blocking assignments inside. - -# Nuggets - -From page 20: "Nonblocking assignments are updated after all $display -commands". I did not know this! The example given is pretty good; $strobe is -recommended as the alternative: - - module display_cmds; - reg a; - initial $monitor("\$monitor: a = %b", a); - initial begin - $strobe ("\$strobe : a = %b", a); - a = 0; - a <= 1; - $display ("\$display: a = %b", a); - #1 $finish; - end - endmodule - -gives: - - $display: a = 0 - $monitor: a = 1 - $strobe : a = 1 - -# Appendix: Verilog Coding Guidelines - -Verbatim from paper: - -1: When modeling sequential logic, use nonblocking assignments. -2: When modeling latches, use nonblocking assignments. -3: When modeling combinational logic with an always block, use blocking -. -4: When modeling both sequential and combinational logic within the same always -nonblocking assignments. -5: Do not mix blocking and nonblocking assignments in the same always block. -6: Do not make assignments to the same variable from more than one always block. -7: Use $strobe to display values that have been assigned using nonblocking -. -8: Do not make assignments using #0 delays. diff --git a/tmp/teaching-cs.page b/tmp/teaching-cs.page deleted file mode 100644 index d441985..0000000 --- a/tmp/teaching-cs.page +++ /dev/null @@ -1,102 +0,0 @@ ---- -format: rst -categories: cs -toc: no -... -==================================== -Notes on Teaching Computer Science -==================================== - -:author: Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@mit.edu> - -.. note:: Incomplete, just a structure of starting topics - -.. contents:: - -In thinking about how to teach somebody new "how to program" or "about -computers", it seems like getting the rough big picture is the best first step. - - -Engineering and Scientific Philosophies ------------------------------------------ -keywords: computation, computability, hierarchy, interface, implementation - -In approaching computer science it is important to note an arbitrary division -of the field between "computation" and "computability" that has arisen over -the years. Similar to the "theory" vs "experiment" schisms in other scientific -fields like physics, "computation" puts emphasis on actually generating -hardware and software to run in the real world, while "computability" focuses -on what can be computed and generalizations of specific computations. Of course -they are two sides of the same coin and should be appreciated together. - -It is almost impossible to deal with computer systems (hardware or software) -without breaking them up into modules and layers. Perhaps more so than in any -other field, conceptual barriers are reflected in the actual design and -implementation of systems, which can make it hard to learn how things work -because their inner workings are shielded from view both literally and -figuratively. For example, a software developer writing a web browser doesn't -have to know about what kind of monitor the user is sitting in front of, -what kind of physical link to the internet they have (or even how this -connection is managed), the details of their computer architecture, how their -application is delegated computing resources, what kind of mouse is being used, -etc etc. - -A more formal example is the ethernet protocol, which is used to -pass data between nodes in a relatively unstructured network. The ethernet -protocol itself lies above the physical "link layer", which means the same -protocol can be used for wireless radio communications or with conducting -wires. It lies below any sort of higher network layers and far below the -"application layer", so large amounts of data can be streamed over it between -two nodes, or messages between dozens of nodes can be passed over it, or it -can be only one link in a very large web of interconnections. This flexibility -has made it ubiquitous and is the protocol most network devices use without -a hitch, but occasionally it's imperfections can lead to problems at higher -levels which are hard to track down. - -Turing Completeness ------------------------------------------ -keywords: finite state machine, deterministic - -Personal Computer Hierarchy ------------------------------------------ -keywords: CPU, RAM, hard disk, peripherals, network, BIOS, motherboard, - operating system, serial, parallel, interrupts, multicore, register - -UNIX Operating Systems ------------------------------------------ -keywords: file system, kernel, driver, threading, - -UNIX is the Latin of operating systems: there were operating systems that came -after, and the average user isn't running a UNIX operating system, but it's -design is simple, functional, and has represents the dominant paradigms for -modern (non-experimental or special use) operating systems. - -As some context, Microsoft Windows is not directly based on UNIX. Apple OSX -and subsequent versions is built on top of a UNIX core. Linux is an open source -implementation of UNIX. BSD was the free UC Berkeley distribution of UNIX which -has branched off into open source implementations like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and -NetBSD. "UNIX" got started as a Bell Labs research project in the 70's (?) - - -The Internet ------------------------------------------ -keywords: IP (internet protocol), ARP, MAC, routing, servers, backbone, - protocol, email, http, html - - -Software Development Tools ------------------------------------------ -keywords: compiler, lexical analysis, library, language, interpreter - - -Data Formats, Structures, and Algorithms ------------------------------------------ -keywords: string, integer, bit, list, pointer, tree, sort, P/NP - - -Design Paradigms ------------------------------------------ -keywords: server/client, object oriented, wrappers, KISS, parallelization, - resource locking, serialization, buffer - - diff --git a/tmp/topics-of-curiosity.page b/tmp/topics-of-curiosity.page deleted file mode 100644 index c07b13c..0000000 --- a/tmp/topics-of-curiosity.page +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ ---- -format: rst -toc: no -... - -Topics of Curiosity ---------------------- - -*or, list of future knowledge items* - -* United Nations -* List of International Treaties - - including signatories - -* Ethernet -* Benthic Biology -* Antarctica -* Kyoto Protocol -* Sensory Deprivation -* Beat Authors -* Harvey Mudd -* National Science Foundation - - And other US national science organizations - -* Iraq War - - Strategy, costs, political figures, history, technology, prospects, companies, etc. - -* Recycling -* Pollution sources in the United States -* US Education System -* US Judicial Branch -* Kennedy School of Government -* Democratic Party -* Republican Party -* Green Party -* Bob Dole -* Al Gore -* Obama -* Book Publishing -* Internet - - Power consumption, user numbers, global connectivity, core and backbone services - -* One Laptop Per Child - - Bundled knowledge, regions, implementation plans, new software concepts, connectivity - -* Paul Dirac -* LaTeX -* vim -* pykrete |