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....
Client …
more ...Sez Who? has taken the offshore risk profile and rewritten them as recommendations. Sadly, his piece is apparently in use at more companies than mine. >
more ...The June 2008 CACM contains the article "A Risk Profile of Offshore-Outsourced Development Projects"
Since this is a common profile, I thought I'd reproduce the Top 10 Risks. Some of these are universal across all project profiles ("Lack of top management commitment"), but others are definitely more problematic for offshored …
more ...I have a client who needs a Web-page component that does some photo compositing. Nothing super-fancy, but it needs to be professional, obey some business rules, and do some things dynamically based on static data.
The prototype is in Flash, but is filled with hideous programming -- magic numbers, a big …
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