Alan Sill

https://mast.hpc.social/@AlanSill

Physics/cloud/data center energy efficiency/HPC. This one's for personal viewpoints and technical stuff I find cool. Open to questions and try to reply to interesting ones. Also at https://bsky.app/profile/alansill.bsky.social and https://hpc.social Slack and Discord.

Texas Tech home page: https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/asill/
NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center: https://nsfcac.org/leadership.html
GitHub: https://alansill.github.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-sill-ttu/

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2025-03-14 17:12:15 UTC

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Very nice picture. However: re. "blood moon": Please don't call it that! We can absolutely handle the extra syllable to say "lunar eclipse" and lose the inaccurate and non-scientific labeling of the color that adds nothing really. Thanks.

2025-02-09 23:25:53 UTC

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THe Library of Congress is your friend on many things related to standards: https://www.loc.gov/librarians/standards
In particular,
https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/
https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/background.html
https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/implementations.html

2025-02-05 18:27:05 UTC

Elon Musk's plan for the US government seems to be exactly what he did to Twitter:
1) Seize control
2) Destroy most of the value
3) Keep the Nazis.
We cannot allow him to succeed, or even to proceed.

2024-11-30 18:41:44 UTC

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I and many others have abandoned X quite a while ago. The #HPC community is converging (please use this hashtag to find us!) on BlueSky and in the Slack, Discord, and Mastodon servers and other community functions of https://hpc.social.

2024-11-03 16:31:15 UTC

Dear all of my Computer Science oriented colleagues:
Experimental CS papers without source code are useless. Please stop doing that. Even theoretical ones without some sort of proof of concept are highly suspect. We don't need more of those, really. Thanks very much.