Unix Hack
Posted 14:30 PST Tue Mar 18, 2008 in
Computing
I am such a unix hack. I just finished a compiler install — both gcc (4.3.0) and the final version of g77 (3.4.0). I need the tools because of some work I’m heavily engaged in.
I’m working on a bivariate probability problem. I’m teaching myself how to generate and apply copulas as a means to develop a bivariate distribution using relatively standard marginal distributions. As a result, I’m downloading source code to implement some of the problems, and of course I needed a compiler (g77 specifically) to test some of the codes.
I think my MacBook Pro already has both compiler suites installed. But, I’m working on my desktop a lot these days and needed the compilers there too.
A great site for development tools for the OS X environment is HPC. They have pre-built binaries (I remember how long it used to take to bootstrap a compiler!) ready to roll. It’s a lot easier than when I was heavily involved in coding about 20 years ago.
When working on my dissertation research, a complete model build required over two hours. A module compile and re-link required about 20 minutes. Now it’s nowhere near so difficult. I’m very glad for that.
I’ve also already got nine hours in today. I started at 0530 with short breaks for breakfast and lunch. I’m about to call it a day.
WOW!!!!! this entry is so “over my head” its not even funny. Seriously, i feel like a chimpanzee about to start my first stage of evolution! LMAO Im a little tingly and VERY confused. Definately have no concept of what is going on around me! Thanks for helping me feel like a rock in the shoe of an english peasant. Completely illiterate and stupified by the words that “humans” speak.
— SiL 1 April 2008, 23:16 #LOL! I started to just say “oops” and let it go at that. Just because you don’t understand the technical details doesn’t make you a chimpanzee! Most people don’t understand much of what I do. Sometimes I wonder if I understand it, too.
— ruminator 2 April 2008, 09:21 #