Why I Chose to Read Skunkworks This last week I’ve been on vacation hiking in Yosemite. I brought Ben Rich’s Skunk Works with me as a way to entertain myself during the flight to California as well as during any downtime that might pop up on my trip. Skunkworks is an autobiographical account about one…
What is a Core Dump A core dump is when you make a permanent note of a computers high-speed memory at a certain time. It’s a term carried over from the early days of computing when magnetic core tape was used as the high-speed memory in computers. A core dump is an extremely powerful debugging…
Running out of Time When I started my blog, I wanted to post every Monday. I worried that I might not have enough good ideas to post every week, but that turned out to be the wrong worry. As the weeks went by, my ideas list of articles to write, just like the books on…
Review of the n-body Problem The n-body problem is when some number of bodies are interacting with each other gravitationally, and you want to figure out what their movement will be at some arbitrary point in the future. I wrote a full post on the problem and it’s difficulties here. I highly recommend that post…
What is the Spaceport America Cup? The Spaceport America Cup (SAC) is an international collegiate rocketry competition. Student teams build a rocket that can carry an 8.8 pound payload to either 10,000 or 30,000 feet. This is one of the best collegiate rocket competitions because of their locator at the Spaceport America in New Mexico. Because…
