Writing on the Casa wall

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Non-Euclidean Transformational Grammars and C++

When I first had the misfortune to cast my eyes upon AIPS++, I said to myself, c'est foutu! However, as part of my last year at the otherwise tedious Ecole Normale Superiere in Lyon, I worked with an unassuming professor from one of our previous colonies. He was hard put to keep up with me, quel branleur, but he did provide a little aid on my groundbreaking work on Non-Euclidean Transformation Grammars and C++ which I presented as a thesis in lieu of any attending any lectures. The relevance to my current work is of course obvious - an XSLT mediated transformation selected by genetic algorithm implements a range of possible unfoldings of typically constipated AIPS++ code into CASA code of openness, vitality, and elan. I have implemented a subtle form of user testing via phishing, which eventually allows me to select one of these as the code to be used. The entropy of the transformation allows a precise metricification of my remediation of AIPS++. This is the secret of my simply massive progress, I cannot conceal. I fully expect to be through with the entire work within a few weeks, and then it is on to the ALMA!

A demain, MALPT!

Marcel

Monday, February 27, 2006

Introduction

I am Marcel Timalin. Right now I am re-writing the whole of aips++ as casa.
This blog is going to reflect my thought process as I progress. Already done quite a lot of work and gotten some work that is going to be released soon.

I am doing this as a favor and working for free ( My father has enough money to support me). I live in Nice.

It was found that Radio Astronomy software cannot be effectively be written by a group. Single genius is necessary otherwise the radio astronomy software have fundamental bugs. That is a well know radio astronomy axiom. It is called the cottonology of radio astronomy software

And look what i have done. A large part of the functionality of aips++ have been rewritten by me in less than 6 weeks of work. And work typically for me is waking up in the morning, have breakfast of croissant and cafe au lait on the riviera. Then have lunch with wine. Work for 2 hours. Then hang out on the beach or drive my Aston-Martin around till dinner time.