User:IanOsgood

Greetings,

I have done lots of anon edits and gnoming, and decided I ought to have a home here.

I work for The TOVA Company in Portland, Oregon programming in Java and C. I run scholastic chess tournaments for Chess for Success and coach my local elementary school team.

I used to work on

Interests

• Computer chess
• Computer go (Amazed that AlphaGo
  came out of nowhere to become the best Go player in the world!)
• xianqui
• Space topics
  • Timeline of spaceflight (upcoming)
  • became
    the first cubesat designed in Oregon!
  • Space colonization
  • new space companies like SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Blue Origin
  • the new US manned initiatives for
    commercial crew
• Astronomy
  • Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Bicycle commuting
• Battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, especially those from Arcimoto, Tesla, Inc., and Aptera Motors (RIP resurrected!)
• Alternate energy, especially solar power and liquid fluoride thorium reactors
• Volcanology: Erta Ale, Ol Doinyo Lengai, blue flame sulphur lava of Ijen, and of course, local Mount St. Helens
• Forth programming language
• Esoteric programming languages such as SNUSP - SNUSP was an article I originally authored (although I now think it and most other esoteric programming languages are effectively research or vanity projects, and should live on the esoteric programming language wiki instead)
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles

Projects

• /List of astronomical objects by angular size
• /Automotive X Prize standings

Forth source test

 : fib ( n -- fib )
   0 1 rot 0 ?do
     over + swap
   loop drop ;

Hooray! The <syntaxhighlight lang=""> tag started supporting Forth around February 2017.