Written by Nils Pipenbrinck
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
The LMAX Architecture
When pushing performance like this, it starts to become important to take account of the way modern hardware is constructed. The phrase Martin Thompson likes to use is "mechanical sympathy". The term comes from race car driving
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
MIT TechTV – Matthew Ritchie: Systemic Thinking and Making
Way
Posted on 2011-06-04 02:42:15 -0400 by Art Scott
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Monday, April 4, 2011
fastest quickhull - Google Search
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Demoscene at the International Congress of Mathematicians
icm 2006 - Demoscene - Mathematics in Movement by Iñigo Quílez
http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/icm2006/icm2006.htm
… Our demoscene speeches in the ICM were of course a bit technical, but for the Conde Duque we made them quite more generic, showing more "noise and colors" than slides of course. People were impressed, they made many questions and we got a lot of positive feedback, especially in the form of "You HAVE TO show all this to the general public, in the media, go to schools and university, this is fantastic....". Well, that was like a dream for me. In the ICM they were more impressed by the technological side instead, they found impressive that "all that in 64 kilobytes?!" and "that is realtime???", but still got the main idea I wanted to transmit them: "this guys do really enjoy maths and have developed a intuitive and creative way of using it!" …
