nick black
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"this is not a dankspace"
Male
28 years old
Atlanta (Terminus), GEORGIA
United States
Last Login: 10/2/2008
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nick black's Interests
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| General | 420, abstract algebra, academic bowl, adderall, algebraic geometry, algorithms, alpha males, anarchism, assembly, authentication, automata, automated theorem proving, axiomatic set theory, bioinformatics, bipolar disorder, blackhat, boolean algebra, bumfights, c, c++, candiru, category theory, college football, combinatorics, compilers, complexity theory, computational geometry, computer translation, contagion, cryptography, cypherpunk, david hilbert, debian, decidability, defcon, denial of service, denotational semantics, determinism, dexedrine, digital cash, discordianism, dmt, electric eels, elitism, emperor norton, eris, eschatology, ethical hacking, ethics, first-order logic, formal methods, g++, garbage collection, gcc, genetic engineering, girls in glasses, gnupg, gottlob frege, guerilla ontology, hacktivism, haskell, history, honeypots, imitation crab meat, information security, interrobangs, intrusion prevention, jaegermeister, james joyce, jean-paul sartre, krunk, lambda calculus, latin, linguistics, linux, lockpicking, loganamnosis, logic, logorrhea, lsd, machine learning, manic depression, markov chains, ml, multithreading, nethack, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, newports, noam chomsky, nootropics, nuclear weapons, obfuscation, octopodes, open source, optimization, parametric polymorphism, particle physics, pattern matching, pharmocology, philosophy, plague, polymathism, popes, predicate calculus, prolog, quantum computing, quantum physics, randomness, real analysis, rigor, robert oppenheimer, self-modifying code, shellcode, sleep deprivation, smart drugs, smart girls, social engineering, speed, squid, static analysis, stochastics, t.s. eliot, tab, topology, transhumanism, trepanation, trojan horses, tweaking, type inference, type theory, used books, viruses, water polo, web of trust, ween, weightlifting, whippets, wu-tang clan | | Music | phish, clutch, ol' dirty bastard, outkast, add n to (x), maroons, eyedea & abilities, monzy | | Movies | apocalypse now, slc punk!, a clockwork orange, pi, trainspotting, wargames | | Television | fuck a bunch of television | | Books | ulysses, naked lunch, magister ludi, gravity's rainbow, too many to possibly list | | Heroes | donald e knuth, enrico fermi, john von neumann, robert oppenheimer |
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Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Patrick twisted my arm, so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest 1085pp opus!, Get KRUNK Klub, Genetic Algorithms Ga Programming
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nick black's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Atlanta | | Body type: | 6' 1" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Smoke / Drink: | Yes / Yes | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Coder, Mathematician |
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nick black's Companies
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Secure Computing
Atlanta, Georgia US
Principal Engineer
Research
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2005-12-19 - present
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Reflex Security
Atlanta, Georgia US
Senior Software Engineer
Development
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2000/08/01 - 2005/12/19
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Telesync
Atlanta, Georgia US
Systems Developer
Development
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2000/01/01 - 2000/08/01
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CNN
Atlanta, Georgia US
Systems Developer
CNN-SI
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1999/08/01 - 2000/05/01
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia US
Teaching Assistant (CS 2430, 2760, 3411)
College of Computing
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1999/01/01 - 2000/01/01
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia US
Systems Administrator
School of Mathematics
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1999/08/01 - 2000/01/01
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Corporate Psychology Resources
Atlanta, Georgia US
Developer
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1998/04/01 - 1999/08/01
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Media Play #8107
Marietta, Georgia US
Product Specialist
Books
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1996/10/05 - 1998/04/01
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Winn-Dixie
Marietta, Georgia US
Bagger
Front End
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1994/10/05 - 1996/10/05
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nick black drinks your milkshake
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About me:
"One of God's own prototypes...
some kind of high-powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die."
Howdy! I fitfully emit into yonder Space of gibberish, and peer through the strange fishbowl ye olde internete provides (I don't post much to this particular timesuck, already wanking far too much on my lj). I'm fascinated by the lot of you, and add people pretty freely; there are no special places in this isotropic, homogeneous, curved Lorentzian manifold we call the Universe. The Good Book provides the watchword: "There is serenity in Chaos. Seek ye the Eye of the Hurricane."
know infosec, know peace; no infosec, no peace.
sleeplessly i code in the shadow of atlanta, keeping the packets moving and the cachelines humming, striving to be the finest programmer in the land. a formalization of the halting problem's tattooed to remind myself life is uncomputable in the large, and one must think outside the turing tape. then again, thus spake the master programmer: "after three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." i recently became the first man to clear god's bong, which is certainly something.
code stoned. debug sober. document drunk.
I am about as clear-cut an ENTP as you can be. Here's more info on the type of champions.
we work in the dark
we do what we can
we give what we have
our doubt is our passion
and our passion is our task
the rest is the madness of art
if you might go to jail
-- wear shoes.
Born 1980-10-05 0251 -0500 at Northside Hospital (Atlanta, GA) -- I share this birthday with the Linux kernel, a fact which delights me. Attended Little River Elementary (Woodstock), graduated and entered Marist School (Dunwoody), was kicked out in the 11th grade and graduated from Walton High School (Marietta) in 1998. Attended GT for a year and a half, meanwhile programming for Corporate Psychology Resources and then CNN, and corrupting the youth TA'ing for the CoC . I've lived snugly along the mighty CONNECTOR (a multiplexing of 75/85 - aerial map) within the tre ghetto fabulous Home Park / Atlantic Station and their surrounding Midtown phatlands since 1999, save a brief taking up of residence at Ridgeview Institute (Roswell) in the spring of 2000. I was there diagnosed with Type I Bipolar Disorder, and emerged homeless and out of school. Hacked code for Telesync for a minute, then was hired to lead the development team at Trellis Network Security (Alpharetta) upon their founding in 2000-08; this would become Reflex Security, where I worked a fine lustrum leading research and development of intrusion prevention. Fall 2003 saw a ride back into GT's valley of death, finally clinching a BS in Computer Science with specializations in Systems, Theory and Networking. On a dark December night in Our Lord's 2005th year, I pledged myself to CipherTrust Research (Alpharetta, GA), swearing to uphold and defend RFC's 2821, 2822, and all the rest besides. There I now practice code artistry and regulate with a staff of rigor, prepare for a MS in one of: and hope to start my Ph.D. here or here or maybe even here by 2009 or so. I hack for about 85 hours a week, and more and more frequently find myself watching Apocalypse Now late at night, naked and shivering over stubbed-out cigarettes, clutching a bottle of Maker's. My Volvo has multiple parts held together with duct tape, these being the only successful repairs I've made on a car (update! the Volvo died and was sold to rednecks, who've long since melted it down into crystal meth. I drove up a bitchin' Miata from the Bahamas, and subsequently wrapped it around a highway divider. I am now looking into a scooter). I smoke roughly 40,006 Newports per day, and try to drink a Tab with each. At some point in my life, I hope to run a used book store. My life is dedicated to improving the world through the expansion of human understanding, and one day raising kickass children both rigorous and comely. I love C++, Prolog, ML and x86 assembly language, but grow violently ill at the mention of perl. I converted from the evangelical / fundamentalist Christianity of my parents to Deism at 12, embraced logical positivism and atheism at 13, and have found peace in chaos as a Discordian since the fateful summer of 1998. I suffered, died and was buried, and on the third day rose again, in fulfillment of the Scriptures. My political/philosophical beliefs, if compressed to the semantic measure of a bumper sticker, would be summed up "Every Man an Everyman" and can best be summarized as "Leibnizian Optimalism" (a much more active, dialectical process than "Leibnizian Optimism", embracing and extending most of the ideas of transhumanism). Lately it occurs to me -- what a long, strange trip it's been.
I am one of the happiest people I know, and certainly the most furious worker (exempting various true academics). It is one of the great blessings of my life that the two form a kind of positive feedback; the happier I am, the harder I work, the happier I become, the harder still I strive, and then I infuriatingly pass out sometimes. Alan Lightman said it best, or at least skillfully paraphrased Tennyson:Einstein wrote that when he first realized that gravity was equivalent to acceleration - an idea that would underlie his new theory of gravity - it was the "happiest thought of my life." On projects of far smaller weight, I have experienced that pleasure of discovering something new. It is an exquisite sensation, a feeling of power, a rush of the blood, a sense of living forever. To be the first vessel to hold this new thing.
All of the scientists I’ve known have at least one more quality in common: they do what they do because they love it, and because they cannot imagine doing anything else. In a sense, this is the real reason a scientist does science. Because the scientist must. Such a compulsion is both blessing and burden. A blessing because the creative life, in any endeavor, is a gift filled with beauty and not given to everyone, a burden because the call is unrelenting and can drown out the rest of life.
This mixed blessing and burden must be why the astrophysicist Chandrasekhar continued working until his mid-80’s, why a visitor to Einstein’s apartment in Bern found the young physicist rocking his infant with one hand while doing mathematical calculations with the other. This mixed blessing and burden must have been the "sweet hell" that Walt Whitman referred to when he realized at a young age that he was destined to be a poet. "Never more," he wrote, "shall I escape."
Hail Eris, All Hail Discordia!
imposition of order -> escalation of chaos
daddyphatsacksv("East Cobb smoke some dank, Home Park'n da house").
Heute die Welt, morgen das Sonnensystem!
A manager was about to be fired, but a programmer who worked for him invented a new program that became popular and sold well. As a result, the manager retained his job. The manager tried to give the programmer a bonus, but the programmer refused it, saying, "I wrote the program because I thought it was an interesting concept, and thus I expect no reward." The manager upon hearing this remarked, "This programmer, though he holds a position of small esteem, understands well the proper duty of an employee. Let us promote him to the exalted position of management consultant!" But when told this, the programmer once more refused, saying, "I exist so that I can program. If I were promoted, I would do nothing but waste everyone's time. Can I go now? I have a program that I'm working on."
In the east there is a shark which is larger than all other fish. It changes into a bird whose wings are like clouds filling the sky. When this bird moves across the land, it brings a message from Corporate Headquarters. This message it drops into the midst of the programmers, like a seagull making its mark upon the beach. Then the bird mounts on the wind and, with the blue sky at its back, returns home. The novice programmer stares in wonder at the bird, for he understands it not. The average programmer dreads the coming of the bird, for he fears its message. The master programmer continues to work at his terminal, for he does not know that the bird has come and gone.
Read along with dank! Here's my Amazon wishlist.
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Who I'd like to meet:
james joyce, william s burroughs, robert a wilson, john von neumann. all combined into a svelte girl partial to dark sweaters, light skirts, glasses and wandering atlanta with a head full of acid. bah just read this.
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cya tuesday d;-]
