Personal site for Greg Bacon.https://blog.gbacon.com/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/what-is-reaction-formation/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/what-is-reaction-formation/One of the FOI’s defense mechanism could be explained much more simply.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/how-i-passed-my-cfi-checkride-first-attempt/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/how-i-passed-my-cfi-checkride-first-attempt/I passed my CFI checkride on the first try in 2021 when the national pass rate was ~77%. I share the full system I used: heavy Anki spaced repetition, written exam strategies, and practical tips for the oral and flight portions.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/jfk-jr-airplane-autopilot/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/jfk-jr-airplane-autopilot/Another sad aspect to this tragic crash.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/trigonometry-refactored/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/trigonometry-refactored/Universal geometry?Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/duplicates-perl-haskell/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/duplicates-perl-haskell/Functional logfile processing.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/airworthiness-calculator/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/airworthiness-calculator/ATOMATOFLAMES and then some.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/faa-commercial-checkride-in-3-acts/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/faa-commercial-checkride-in-3-acts/Adventures in passing the FAA Commercial Airplane Single Engine Land practical test.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/stat-mode-33188/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/stat-mode-33188/How Unix represents file permissions.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/just-for-you-madeline/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/just-for-you-madeline/Practice for our newest little reader.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/pirep-faa-written-psi-examination-services/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/pirep-faa-written-psi-examination-services/I passed the Fundamentals of Instruction or FOI FAA knowledge test at the new PSI test center. Here’s what you can expect with the changes.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/why-are-transponder-digits-0-7/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/why-are-transponder-digits-0-7/Octal and human factors.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2026-irsim/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2026-irsim/Generation of IR images from EO inputs based on training against paired and unpaired samples from the Recognition of Combatant - Vehicles (ROCV) dataset.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2025-secon/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2025-secon/Use of LLM as a business-development or research assistant, applied to the use case of SBIR/STTR and quantified against Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI).Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2024-secon/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2024-secon/Identification of technical fits based on opportunity descriptions and a team’s summary of capabilities. Unsupervised multiclass spectral clustering selected 3 out of 5 topics (in a corpus of 89) chosen by a team of human experts.Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/netopenidconsumer-fails-with-naiveverifyfaile/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/netopenidconsumer-fails-with-naiveverifyfaile/Diagnosing a strange error message from Mojolicious.Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/considering-gas-powered-standby/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/considering-gas-powered-standby/Beat the power outages.Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/extracting-comma-separated-integers/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/extracting-comma-separated-integers/Using split versus pattern matching.Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/checkers-game-over-in-haskell/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/checkers-game-over-in-haskell/Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/perl-conditional-use-and-scope/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/perl-conditional-use-and-scope/Swapping libraries at compile time.Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/immanuel/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/immanuel/Isaiah 9:6Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/git-shrinking-subversion-import/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/git-shrinking-subversion-import/Discarding historical binary cruft in your history.Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/simple-fitnesse-example-with-cslim/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/simple-fitnesse-example-with-cslim/Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/radio-host-wbhp/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/radio-host-wbhp/If the code monkey thing doesn’t work out …Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/gyrigrams/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/gyrigrams/Pairs of words equivalent up to rot13Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/cleaning-up-your-haskell-imports/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/cleaning-up-your-haskell-imports/Discarding unused external modules.Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/rip-heather/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/rip-heather/Mourning the passing of a classmate from elementary and high schoolTue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/my-first-monadic-program/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/my-first-monadic-program/Cracking the monads.Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/posts/processing-lines-in-textbox/https://blog.gbacon.com/posts/processing-lines-in-textbox/C# code to ingest all TextBox content.Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2001-perl-developers-dictionary/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2001-perl-developers-dictionary/A complete, well-organized reference to the Perl language and environment, including core syntax as well as Perl modules.Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2000-win2k-registry/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2000-win2k-registry/The Windows 2000 Registry is the repository for all hardware, software, and application settings, and this book is the sysadmin's guide to maintaining, monitoring, and updating the Registry database.Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2000-perl-journal-tktk/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/2000-perl-journal-tktk/Time killer in Perl/Tk.Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1999-teach-yourself-perl-24-hours/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1999-teach-yourself-perl-24-hours/Tutorial on using Perl to create utilities and CGI webapps.Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1999-perl-journal-objarray/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1999-perl-journal-objarray/Most people build objects out of hashes. Here's why you shouldn’t.Mon, 01 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1994-superquest-remove-static-music-bpnn/https://blog.gbacon.com/publications/1994-superquest-remove-static-music-bpnn/AI/ML before it was cool.Fri, 24 Jun 1994 00:00:00 GMT