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User:Fineline

2015-12-05T00:20:32Z

73.222.15.23:

[[File:steve_at_spiderhouse_ballroom.jpg|right]]
I'm a theoretical physicist, software developer, and musician. I just moved to SF.

I have a PhD in theoretical physics from UT Austin, and a BS in physics from UC San Diego. My doctoral research dealt with building string theoretic models of QCD-like quantum field theories at strong coupling, via the AdS/CFT correspondence. You can read all about it [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8542380/non_SUSY_engineering.pdf here]. More recently, I've jumped on the gravity <--> Navier-Stokes bandwagon.

== Contact ==
email: 
fineline@gmail.com

OTR: 
fineline@chatme.im 
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Textsecure/Signal: 
(415) 910-6346 
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[https://twitter.com/fineline179 Twitter]

[https://www.facebook.com/steve.c.young Facebook]

[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=204000464&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile LinkedIn]

== Projects ==

*''vForms'' is a virtual environment for information organization for Windows 8 (sorry like 99.999% of the people reading this). C++ and DirectX. '''Update''' I'll be presenting an initial version at 5MoF on May 15th. I'm aiming to have it released by June 1st on the windows store.

*I'd like to investigate the feasibility of using techniques similar to [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/loopblinn05.pdf Loop and Blinn] for a) rendering bezier splines, in particular digital ink strokes. b) making a fast, resolution independent pdf renderer. Both GLSL and HLSL versions. If this sounds interesting to any DirectX/OpenGL/CG hackers out there, it'd be great to see if we could release something substantial as open source. '''Update 5/6/2014''': I found [https://code.launchpad.net/~macslow/gl-fragment-curves/trunk this], which should be good for study. Also [http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gamedev/files/GL_NV_path_rendering.txt this].

*I'm often working on some sort of quantum-gravity-related research project or other. If any of you guys wanna check my math that would be rad.

== Interests ==

*String Theory
*AdS/CFT
*The [http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0932 holographic perspective] on quantum entanglement entropy, and its implications for space/time emergence (ie the program spearheaded by [http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3035 Von Raamsdonk]; [http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1132 EPR=ER])
*Machine Learning
*Statistical Mechanics (In particular, applications of Boltzmann machines to real-world systems -- eg work by [http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2242 Bialek]. See also his [http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/PHY562.html textbook])
*Kundalini Yoga
*Rational (ie phenomenological) discussion of mysticism in general
*High Explosives
*Saxophone
*Cinder (creative coding library), and its application towards virtual workspace environment design on tablets and in augmented reality.
*Hiking
*Mountaineering
*Cooking (mostly Chinese and Mexican)
*Open Access Publishing
*Co-operative living

== Some Publications ==

Evolution of non-local observables in an expanding boost-invariant plasma (forthcoming)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2397 The Stability of Non-Extremal Conifold Backgrounds with Sources]

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1727 The Non-SUSY Baryonic Branch: Soft Supersymmetry Breaking of N=1 Gauge Theories]

[http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0110044 Plasticity and learning in a network of coupled phase oscillators]

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.8.9532 Multi-user communication using chaotic frequency modulation]

User:Fineline

2015-12-05T00:19:46Z

73.222.15.23:

[[File:steve_at_spiderhouse_ballroom.jpg|right]]
I'm a theoretical physicist, software developer, and musician. I just moved to SF.

I have a PhD in theoretical physics from UT Austin, and a BS in physics from UC San Diego. My doctoral research dealt with building string theoretic models of QCD-like quantum field theories at strong coupling, via the AdS/CFT correspondence. You can read all about it [https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8542380/non_SUSY_engineering.pdf here]. More recently, I've jumped on the gravity <--> Navier-Stokes bandwagon.

== Contact ==
email: 
fineline@gmail.com

OTR: 
fineline@chatme.im 
fingerprint: DF8C327F 3D2C7528 7BA82C71 1BC7805A B304B8CE

Textsecure/Signal: 
(512) 699-5150 
fingerprint: 
05 70 fe 92 0c 9c ef 6d a6
20 df 96 e2 00 59 3d 7f c2
b6 8d 55 17 51 84 9c 1a 89
b1 65 0d d9 48 5b

[https://twitter.com/fineline179 Twitter]

[https://www.facebook.com/steve.c.young Facebook]

[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=204000464&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile LinkedIn]

== Projects ==

*''vForms'' is a virtual environment for information organization for Windows 8 (sorry like 99.999% of the people reading this). C++ and DirectX. '''Update''' I'll be presenting an initial version at 5MoF on May 15th. I'm aiming to have it released by June 1st on the windows store.

*I'd like to investigate the feasibility of using techniques similar to [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cloop/loopblinn05.pdf Loop and Blinn] for a) rendering bezier splines, in particular digital ink strokes. b) making a fast, resolution independent pdf renderer. Both GLSL and HLSL versions. If this sounds interesting to any DirectX/OpenGL/CG hackers out there, it'd be great to see if we could release something substantial as open source. '''Update 5/6/2014''': I found [https://code.launchpad.net/~macslow/gl-fragment-curves/trunk this], which should be good for study. Also [http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gamedev/files/GL_NV_path_rendering.txt this].

*I'm often working on some sort of quantum-gravity-related research project or other. If any of you guys wanna check my math that would be rad.

== Interests ==

*String Theory
*AdS/CFT
*The [http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.0932 holographic perspective] on quantum entanglement entropy, and its implications for space/time emergence (ie the program spearheaded by [http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.3035 Von Raamsdonk]; [http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1132 EPR=ER])
*Machine Learning
*Statistical Mechanics (In particular, applications of Boltzmann machines to real-world systems -- eg work by [http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2242 Bialek]. See also his [http://www.princeton.edu/~wbialek/PHY562.html textbook])
*Kundalini Yoga
*Rational (ie phenomenological) discussion of mysticism in general
*High Explosives
*Saxophone
*Cinder (creative coding library), and its application towards virtual workspace environment design on tablets and in augmented reality.
*Hiking
*Mountaineering
*Cooking (mostly Chinese and Mexican)
*Open Access Publishing
*Co-operative living

== Some Publications ==

Evolution of non-local observables in an expanding boost-invariant plasma (forthcoming)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2397 The Stability of Non-Extremal Conifold Backgrounds with Sources]

[http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1727 The Non-SUSY Baryonic Branch: Soft Supersymmetry Breaking of N=1 Gauge Theories]

[http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0110044 Plasticity and learning in a network of coupled phase oscillators]

[http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.8.9532 Multi-user communication using chaotic frequency modulation]

Plan 9

2015-10-28T21:48:49Z

73.222.15.23: /* Plan 9 */

=Plan 9 at Noisebridge=
===Class===
'''What''': Introduction to using Plan 9 (as well as various forks)

'''Where''': Main hacking area (at the tables)

'''When''': Sundays at 18:00-19:30

'''Contact''': [[User:mischief]]

===Plan 9===

Plan 9 is a computer operating system widely regarded by the electronic intelligensia as the pinnacle of operating system organization and application interface design . Lacking the postmodern irony and self-referential practical jokes made at the expense of application programmers (OOB-IPC, chroot, application registry etc) that would come to characterize operating systems of the 20th century, Plan9 is an operating system that defies any sort of explanation made in relation to existing technologies. Despite its alarmingly unstable user community, it rivals Unix itself in it's impact on contemporary operating system organization.

Lacking the organizational and logical afterthoughts that plague managed application development (I ask the reader to consider the simple case of sockets), it defines itself on the basis that all objects are files (no exaggeration here). File communication is a completely transparent process, regardless of the actual physical location of the files.

Despite these obvious advantages, Plan9's use and reputation has been born posthumously. Due to the shifting economic circumstances of the 1990s, Plan9 would be largely abandoned by Bell Labs by 1995.

In its wake, Plan9 has attracted a small extremist community of software archaeologists, hardcore systems programmers, knights of knowledge and other seekers of ultimate truth.

=== Praise, Analysis and Precepts of Plan9 ===

:"I started keeping a list of these annoyances but it got too long and depressing so I just learned to live with them again. We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy'" - Rob Pike
:"It’s possible that I understand better what’s going on" - Russ Cox
:"Plan9 is a metaphysical experience" - Bertrand Russell [1]
:"Unix compilers are slow" - Rob Pike
:"Brave, unconcerned, mocking, Plan9 is a woman, and like all women, she loves only a warrior" - Karl Gotch [2]
:"The chief cause of problems is solutions" - Someone who liked, or would have liked, Plan9

=== Concerning the Class ===

Noisebridge's favorite roguish rapscallion [[User:Mischief]] is primarily responsible for you not being able to use the front of the main table (alternatively Plan9 class), which happens at 6:00PM (pacific time) on Sundays as I'm sure you know. It is good to have a copy of 9front before you come. Staying true to Plan9 principles, instructional organization is largely nonexistent and generally treated with contempt, so feel free to drop in with any amount of Plan9 knowledge and you are sure to open up new, terrifying vistas of reality (as well as have fun).

See you there!

===Resources===
====Elementary Documents====
* [http://fqa.9front.org/ 9front FQA] - '''9FRONT FREQUENTLY QUESTIONED ANSWERS''': start here
* [http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ Plan 9 papers] - papers from the authors of Plan 9, I suggest starting with [http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9 Plan 9 from Bell Labs]
* [http://lsub.org/who/nemo/9.intro.pdf Introduction to OS Abstractions using Plan 9] - paper with examples of different os features in Plan 9, and describes rc and c programming for Plan 9
====General Information====
* [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/ Plan 9 Homepage] - has a wiki, a web mirror of the sources and contrib, general information
* [http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ Plan 9 documentation at cat-v.org] - has papers from 4th edition Plan 9, and various related documents.
* [http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Tip_o'_the_day/index.html Plan 9 Tip o' the day] - many good one-liners and party tricks. '''really useful!'''
====9front====
* Irc: #cat-v on freenode
* [http://9front.org/ 9front homepage] - home
* [http://fqa.9front.org/fqa4.html 9front installation] - if you wish to install 9front, first look at this example installation session.
* [http://fqa.9front.org/fqa9.html 9front troubleshooting] - if your hardware does not work, look here.
====Mirrors====
Use <code>bunzip2</code> to decompress files ending in <code>.bz2</code>.
* [http://fqa.9front.org/fqa1.html#1.11.1 9front mirrors]
* [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html Plan 9 CD/floppy download page]

References:

* 1. Bertrand Russell did not say this
* 2. But did Karl Gotch say this? We will never know.