About HARDAC
Welcome to HARDAC, my personal collection of useful and semi-useful resources from the last couple of decades.
Why HARDAC? On the critically acclaimed 1990's cartoon, Batman: The Animated Series, HARDAC (an acronym for "Holographic Analytical Reciprocating DigitAl Computer") was a supercomputer. Designed by one of Bruce Wayne's mentors, Karl Rossum, HARDAC was designed to assist Rossum in finding a solution to human mortality following the tragic death of Rossum's daughter. HARDAC ended up turning on its creator and engineering robotic copies of Rossum, his staff, and various Gotham City notables in a misguided effort to protect humanity from itself.
I promise, there's nothing evil going on here, I'm not trying to replace anyone with a robotic copy, and I don't have any background in artificial intelligence - at least, not that I'm aware of. Rather, I enjoyed that particular episode of the show (and its sequel!), and I liked the idea of naming a website after a more obscure computer character than HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, or LCARS from Star Trek. While I've tended to name my own computers "CAL-9000," I've named most of my wireless routers "HARDAC" in honor of the character from the two-parter, "Heart of Steel," written by Brynne Stephens.
HARDAC consists of six major sections.
Strategic Analysis Resource Archive (SARA): SARA consolidates two decades worth of collected documents and resources relating to strategy, military operations, foreign affairs, intelligence, and military history.
Directory of Historically-Acquired Risk Management Assets (DHARMA): DHARMA consolidates two decades worth of accumulated documents, resources, and tools pertaining to various functional disciplines of security risk management.
Historical Education Resource Archive (HERA): HERA provides a range of resources relating to various aspects of world history.
Linguistic Analysis Resource Archive (LARA): LARA provides resources and tools pertaining to the study of foreign languages. These resources focus primarily, but not solely, upon Arabic dialects.
Dhofarchive: A portmanteau of "Dhofar" and "archive," the Dhofarchive consolidates more than a decade of acquired materials relating to the Dhofar Rebellion. The Dhofar Rebellion was a conflict between the recognized Omani government and a Marxist insurgency, lasted from 1962 to 1979, and has become the model for a successful counterinsurgency campaign.
HARDAC Great War Archive: The HARDAC Great War Archive consolidates approximately one decade worth of original and accumulated resources pertaining to the First World War, known alternately as World War I or the Great War.
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