I have a brand new 4" refractor which is my first "real" telescope (as a kid I had a let's-say-3" Newtonian, your typical shopping-mall refractor, and I've had some decent binos and spotting scopes since then).
The world of amateur astronomy has vastly changed since I was a kid. Alan …
more ...I'm as thankful as anyone that everyone got off the plane that went down in the Hudson, but I'm kind of ticked that all the news sites are calling it "The Miracle on the Hudson," or "Miracle Landing." That cheapens the tens of thousands of hours the pilot spent flying …
more ...For much of the past week, I've been doing a bunch of accounting stuff. I am incorporating (as "Faster Programmer LLC" ? as in "Faster can mean both higher productivity and higher performance," but actually as in "Faster, Programmer! Code! Code!") and trying to get monetary things (new bank account, credit …
more ...I've been writing this blog since 2002, which I'm fairly sure makes me the graybeard among the Big Island's small blogging family. For what it's worth, I also was a magazine editor for 7 years (and won a few awards). So I'm going to shake my finger at the trio …
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more ...Inference for .NET is an alternative to Infer.NET & IronPython.
Bonus: Inference for .NET integrates with ResolverOne.
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import sys import clr sys.path.append("c:\\program files\\Microsoft Research\\Infer.NET 2.2\\bin\\debug") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Compiler.dll") clr.AddReferenceToFile("Infer.Runtime.dll") from MicrosoftResearch.Infer import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Models import * from MicrosoftResearch.Infer.Distributions import * firstCoin = Variable[bool].Bernoulli(0.5) secondCoin = Variable …Alexa Weber-Morales of Parallelaware asked me my views on "Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only A Research Toy?" given my recent column predicting that the stars are aligning for STM as the model of choice for the manycore era. (Incidentally, if they ever bring back Schoolhouse Rock, my suggested …
more ...Larry O'Brien says: (7:46:07 AM)
I see you're pushing testing and *scribble* out of 1.3.
Client says: (7:46:23 AM)
we need to move forward
Larry O'Brien says: (7:46:26 AM)
Well.... Not really....
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