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Sam Rushing

Disambiguation

a.k.a. "Samual McClain Rushing".
Places you might know me from:

Email Address

Read about my email address:
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Family

I'm married to a Jennifer. I have three children so far: Logan (1999), Noah (2001), and Audrey (2004). Twelve more are planned. Children are delightful little creatures. Except for when they're not.

Location

I currently live in Campbell, California in Silicon Valley. I never wanted to move here. California is too expensive and too crowded. But Silicon Valley is like a black hole that sucks Engineers inside the Bay Area's event horizon. Over the past decade it's grown on me somewhat, but I still pine for Seattle sometimes.

Projects

Irken
Irken is a simplified dialect of Scheme with an ML-style static (inferred) type system.
Shrapnel
Shrapnel is a scalable event-driven user threading system for Python.
Caesure
Caesure is a perpetually-in-progress Bitcoin Node implementation using Shrapnel.

Interests

If you know what an Extropian is, then you may already know a lot about me. Consider this the result of early exposure to the writing of Robert Heinlein. To narrow it down a bit more, I'll just say that I'm not a Randroid.

Rants

If you know me, you're sick of hearing about these things.

Blogs

A better storage place for my rants - my blog, Curious Task.

My developer's blog for Irken.

Random Python Scripts

A collection of junk from my python scripts directory, accumulated since the early 90's. Some of them I didn't write. Some of them may even do something useful.

Photo Noise

Here is a tutorial I wrote on how to remove patterned noise from old photo prints using ImageJ.

Aerial 360-degree Panoramic Images

These images were taken with a 3DR Solo. Stitched with Autopano Pro, displayed with Panellum.

Gain-Map HDR images

High Dynamic Range images in JPEG format, with the new 'gain map' feature. Required: an HDR-capable display (e.g. Macbook Pro with XDR display) and the Chrome browser (for the gain-map jpeg support).

Fibonacci Spirals

Generate Fibonacci Spirals in SVG. Python source available.

FreeBSD on the MacchiatoBIN arm64 board

My experience with FreeBSD on the MacchiatoBIN Single Shot


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Last modified: Fri Dec 28 2023