Category Archives: General

Finally, some people who experienced the pain that is GCC and had the time freedom to actually create a new solution on LLVM (which by itself is interesting technology). Enter clang Why do I say that about GCC, the most … Continue reading →

Previously… Over the last few weeks, it seems like there was ZERO bad news in the financial press. Even some of the more contrarian or bearish news outlets were on vacation. Even Barron’s had a sort of tame week (and … Continue reading →

Alexander Ratushnyak Wins Second Hutter Prize Payout I think Alex used NLP to leverage the semantic associations of topics to accomplish this amazing goal. Great stuff!

I’ve been thinking about posting something about this for a while. Although there is a lot to be excited about these days, there is still a lot to be really concerned about. I generally don’t post about negative issues for … Continue reading →

I saw that we have just passed the 25th Anniversary of Blade Runner… Quite possibly the best Sci-Fi film ever made. Ridley Scott is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. The vangelis soundtrack was awesome. Here is a … Continue reading →

Trendier Originally uploaded by Reid Harris Cooper This Perrier ad that I see on the BART is growing on me

This interesting article compares the font rendering technology of Microsoft and Apple. Yet… Why does everybody forget about the big dog down in San Jose which represents most of what we see? If you have looked at a PDF, a … Continue reading →

This guys blog post on the state of most math texts strikes a chord with me. I have often been frustrated with some of the books I have purchased on technical/science topics that I would like to have in my … Continue reading →