A Crash Course on Modern Hardware
01.18.10 - 03:36pm
Cliff Click from Azul Systems gives a talk on one of my favourite subjects, Computer Architecture. He looks at the difficulty of predicting performance on modern x86 CPUs.
Archive for January, 2010
Ride to Portside
01.12.10 - 11:08am
I rode to Portside this morning to try out MotionX GPS on the iPhone. I found a couple of weird signs along the way.
Date:12/01/2010 8:49 am
Distance:22.0 kilometers
Elapsed Time:1:12:46
Avg. Speed:18.1 km/h
Max. Speed:44.5 km/h
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Turing’s Cathedral
01.10.10 - 09:37pm
Turing’s Cathedral is an interesting look at computing at the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s proposal for the digital computer. It cover aspects of computational models, biology, AI and the growing wealth of knowledge on the internet.
The quotes below show how we have far exceeded the original expectations of computation. Even though we are [...]