Programming
This AI programming language was once famous for its lots of irritating and superfluous parentheses
What is LISP
Jay's favorite planet was once thought to be a gas giant. We now believe it to be a mostly high-pressure liquid metallic hydrogen. His friends are sending spacecraft there to see if its icy moon supports life.
What is Jupiter
This method of root finding has guaranteed convergence and requires no derivatives, though it can be pretty slow.
What is binary search.
Jay's favorite ski trip with his son was Tuna-riffic.
Where is Niseko United/Japan.
Jay likes how this cuisine "touches his heart" and encourages visitors try as many options as possible.
What is dimsum.
Jay contributed a port of this early web server written by upperclassman Rob McCool to Apple UNIX in 1993, prompting a telephone call to his mother's house from SPAWAR (The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command).
What is NCSA httpd
Before moving from U Chicago to Caltech in Pasadena where they once had a larger than life statue of him, this scientist measured the charge of an electron, earning him the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Who is Robert Millikan.
This underappreciated distribution characterizes the popularity of web pages, the population of cities, and the size of insurance claims.
What is Pareto
This mountain biking destination is famous for its unusual geographic features and its inappropriately named rocks that are actually quite abrasive.
Where is Moab Utah.
A favorite at the Budzik household, we like to make this food item from scratch, and as long as possible, because it's fun, not because we believe in the longevity benefits.
What are noodles.
Jay used this ugly programming language developed by Larry Wall that must have emerged from a mollusk below the sea to develop a question answering system for the 1998 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
What is Perl.
The world's largest until 1947, this telescope located near Pasadena, was used to confirm the existence of other galaxies, general relativity, the expansion of the universe, and the structure of the Milky Way.
What is the 100 inch Hooker Telescope at Mt. Wilson
This mathematician-turned-computer scientist determined the minimum number of bits required to represent a message without loosing information.
Who is C. Shannon.
The feeling of going back in time to the flapper era adds an element of fun to this otherwise more serious travel destination.
Where is Cincinnati OH.
Inspired by an old lady, Jay was famous among friends for making a vegetarian version of this spicy dish (before he had a child with too many opinions).
What is Ma Po Tofu.
Jay used this awkward language developed by Aho, Weinberger, and Kerninghan to develop a 'nag' script that monitored resource hogs on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey server at Fermilab
What is awk
Debunking the myth that the sun was at the center of the universe was this scientific family's first contribution to assigning credit where credit is due.
Who is Shapley
This famous paradox arising from the axioms of set theory can really blow things up.
What is the Banach-Tarski paradox.
Monkeys couldn't keep themselves away from Jay's son Aron at this ancient ruined city.
Where is Angkor Watt.
Some might call Jay's favorite traditional food from his eastern European heritage rotten.
What is Sauerkraut.
This assembler language is Jay's favorite. Native to Silicon Graphics workstations used for HPC and famous for its small instruction set, the underlying processor architecture won Patterson and Hennesy the 2017 Turing award.
What is MIPS assembly
The other J. Budzik has published many studies on the development of pilli, the structure responsible for the infectious properties of this important, momentus, crucial, urgent, major, and committed bacteria.
What is B. Sereus.
One of the first known discussions of the limits of a sequence was recorded in 450BC by Plato in a dialog between Socrates and this philosopher who's name is often used to describe the paradoxes.
Who is Zeno of Elea.
Jay's first trip out of the country was to this destination in Europe. He was 11 and had to navigate the train system in a foreign language all on his own!
Paris France
Jay was pleasantly surprised to discover the only mature fruit tree in his new yard produces this delicious fruit, definitely not an orange.
What is mandarin.