QCon SF 2011 Software Engineering Conference Notes
It’s sometimes possible to forget when reading all of the posts here about travel, diabetes, triathlon, and photography that they’re just a small part of my life. I have a job to which I devote a whole...
View ArticleThinking Differently about Software Optimization
Yesterday morning while eating my “Free Wednesday Breakfast” chocolate croissant and fresh fruit with yoghurt, I watched an interview with John Nolan entitled “The State of Hardware Acceleration with...
View ArticleWe Need a New Mindset
Guy Steele drops a truth bomb. (From How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!)
View ArticleWelcome to Herb Sutter’s Jungle
In an effort to keep posting something here until I’m in the right place mentally to write about things that probably interest you, my dear friends, family, and online diabetes peeps, here’s another...
View ArticleAn Experiment with SSE
Updated: 6 February 2012. Techie people, the good stuff—code, results, more info—is below the fold. Friends, I’ve been in my head a bit recently. That’s not necessarily bad—it’s a nice neighborhood,...
View ArticleWriting a File Reader in MATLAB
A colleague recently asked me to help him read a file in MATLAB, which supports reading a whole bunch of image and scientific data formats right out-of-the-box but not NRRD. This format stores 3D...
View ArticleConvolution
Coworker: So, what are you doing? [Eying my copy of Steve's Digital Image Processing Using MATLAB book.] Me: I thought it was about time for me to learn how filtering works. Coworker: Everybody has to...
View ArticleCompiling the Julia example from “CUDA by Example” on Mac
This is just a little note to remind myself later how to do this. Perhaps it will be helpful for others in the same situation. I’ve been reading CUDA By Example recently to (1) learn how to do some...
View ArticleMo Pixels, Mo Problems
Technology might be making the world a smaller place, but the data we’re creating and using is only getting bigger and bigger. Recently a few customers independently contacted me with problems reading...
View ArticleUploading OneTouch Meters to CareLink in MacOS 10.8
You know what sucks? Not being able to connect to CareLink from your nifty, modern Mac because Lifescan and/or Minimed decided it wasn’t worth creating a new driver for the cable that connects a...
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