#Bunnie’s #dissertation #pdf on “a decentralized parallel computer” #toread #hardware
on 02026-04-09#PDF of #Detheroc’s #SDF #fonts #dissertation, loading unusably slowly right now. #toread
on 02026-01-12#Detheroc (Viktor Chlumský) did their #dissertation on #SDF #fonts using a median-of-three approach to get sharp corners. #graphics
on 02026-01-12Birgitte Stofferson’s #dissertation about safe containment of NaOH #materials, for example in inconel, which erodes 1.06mm/year in 600° NaOH.
on 02025-11-20Joe Armstrong’s #dissertation on #Erlang and #fault-tolerance, “Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors” #toread
on 02025-08-10#PDF of Ewin Tang’s #dissertation “Quantum Machine Learning without any Quantum” on whether #quantum-computing can improve machine learning or not. #AI
on 02025-07-24#PDF scan of Frank Liang’s #dissertation on #hyphenation in #TeX
on 02025-07-24#MarkM’s #dissertation on "Robust Composition" and #concurrency
on 02025-07-19Hestenes’s #dissertation on using #Clifford-algebra and geometric calculus for particle #physics from 01963. No full text.
on 02025-05-20#PDF of Sagnak’s #dissertation #paper on geotechnical soil stabilization for civil engineering using recycled gypsum and sodium silicate (#waterglass). It mentions that bacterial soil stabilization (using carbonates) has been widely used since at least 01999, long predating the tafoni project and Biobricks.
on 02025-04-12#Baziotis bachelor’s #dissertation #paper on #compilers: “Designing Decoupled Compiler Transformation APIs/Σχεδιάζοντας Αποσυνδεδεμένες Διεπαφές για Μετασχηματισμούς Μεταγλωττιστών”
on 02024-12-12#PDF of Dybvig's #dissertation on #Scheme, explaining his high-performance stack-copying implementation for Chez #Scheme. The discussion of supporting mutation in the stack model begins in §4.5 on p.98 (108/190).
on 02023-07-03#PDF #dissertation #ebook, “Thermal Analysis of a Solar Cavity Receiver”, by Yuvraj Singh. Mostly about molten-salt solar thermal #energy plants. #thermodynamics
on 02017-05-19Stuart Cheshire’s #dissertation #paper in #PS on #consistent-overhead-byte-stuffing. I can’t believe he wrote a 152-page book on this algorithm. (It turns out that most of the book is actually a remarkably comprehensive overview of some 25 existing framing protocols; his own algorithm and analysis thereof is on pp.77–122.)
on 02017-04-17Raph #Levien’s first Ph.D. #dissertation from 2002, on Advogato and #reputation-systems. #pdf #toread
on 02016-08-13Thomas Oster’s bachelor’s #pdf #dissertation on the VisiCut #laser-cutter software. Mentions he got about an inch per second (25 mm/s) at 500dpi out of the Epilog Zing cutter he was using, or 8 inches per second with the laser off, and documents the HP-PCL, PJL, HPGL, and LPD interface of the machine in some detail. #2d-cutting
on 02015-11-30David M. Young’s 1950 #dissertation on #SOR solution of #linear-equations in #pdf, converted to LaTeX by Barbara Morris.
on 02015-11-19