R Allan Baruz: Computationally MindedVarious things computationally oriented. Tech stuff, too.(Untitled)- April 26, 2003 Both Mr Wiseman and Mr Robertson mention Alan Kay’s talk at the O Reilly Emerging Tech. J J had the link to the text, though.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/25.html#a1188 (Untitled)- April 23, 2003 Tuning in Smalltalk is the same as in any language. you either:do expensive things less often, ordo less expensive things.—Aner and Beck.Lazy Optimization“Patterns of Efficient Smalltalk Programming”Pattern Languages of Program Design 2http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/23.html#a1182 (Untitled)- April 22, 2003 Scapy, a Python-based packet... Swiss army knife, I suppose. By way of sweetcode.http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/22.html#a1180 (Untitled)- April 22, 2003 Here’s something sad. Well, not sad, but certainly disheartening, at least to me. This is an example of a book that used to be prevalent in the early to late eighties. Books like this, and A. K. Dewdney’s column in Scientific American, taught children, enthusiasts, and amateurs not to fear computers, but to actively engage with them, as sort of partners in thinking or imagining. Nowadays, how many of these kinds of books do you find I cannot think of anything right now that would...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/21.html#a1179 (Untitled)- April 19, 2003 At GameDev: Monday, April 14, 2003 Galaxy Dynamics Computer Simulation Posted by: Anonymouse at 18:50 The paper over at OSNews considers a mathematical model of the behavior of an assembly of N stars. The 'Kepler' Windows demo application based of this model enables to perform real-time simulation of star clusters dynamics for N=2500. The paper also estimates the efficiency of the IPP application and provides an example of C-code with the IPP functions calls. Computer-simulated images of..http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/18.html#a1173 (Untitled)- April 14, 2003 Here’s an interesting tidbit: Peter van der Linden, who wrote one of my favorite C books (Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets) has apparently left the Sun compiler group for Apple. He recently posted on Usenet (comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc) looking for an intern with some very high qualifications. I was skeptical of the e-mail (a Yahoo account) but the Apple employees seem to be backing him up. It looks to me from the job description as if they want someone to do automated testing...http://radio.weblogs.com/0105058/categories/computationallyMinded/2003/04/14.html#a1160 Supershapes!- April 10, 2003 By way of Slashdot. Seriously. Here are more details. Here are some formulæ. Here’s a Java app implementation allowing you to tweak parameters to see what it can do.http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/2356251&mode=nested&tid=134 |