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| Chris Hodapp | true | 2008-07-10 03:35:24+00:00 | post | 20080618-20080709-really-overdue-notes | 2008.06.18 - 2008.07.09, really overdue notes | 91 |
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Hardware
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http://www.ucapps.de/ - "Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks"
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http://midibox.org/ - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects
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Nvidia Tegra - "features a GPU, media processor, system memory, peripherals and a CPU all in one ultra-low power chip, smaller than a US dime (10-cent piece)."
Geek Articles/Software
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An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (William Kahan)
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Numerical Workbenches, pt. III (Christoph Spiel) - plotting in GNU Octave, Scilab, and Tela
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Scilab lecture notes from University of Pune
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freemind - "is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java."... I could probably benefit a lot by using this properly.
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Art of Illusion by Peter Eastman - "Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio." . . . looks very powerful and capable; another manual here
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xpra - "persistent remote applications" for X; think like GNU Screen, or like a remote application rather than a remote desktop
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Scale - Scalable Compiler for Analytical Experiments; right now, a research/instructional compiler (open source, Java) used mainly for generating code for the TRIPS architecture
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raw Architecture Workstation - project at MIT for "simple, wire-efficient multicore architecture that scales with increasing VLSI gate densities"... tiled, multicore, highly parallel
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Sun Labs Lively Kernel - positioned as a Flash alternative for the iPhone, for instance (interview with creator Dan Ingalls here)
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The Sentinel - old computer game that was notable for generating its levels procedurally
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.kkrieger - procedural generation taken to an extreme, from .theprodukkt
Hippie Stuff
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MoBo Bicycle Coop - "The MoBo Bicycle Co-op is a non-profit, volunteer-run collective dedicated to providing every member of the Tri-State area access to bicycles, maintenance, and education." (also Myspace site)
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AskWish -
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Hegelian dialectic - remind me to read this in detail and find why it pertains to politics
Hippie Geek Stuff
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Owner-free Filesystem - "distributed filesystem in which everything is stored in reference to randomized data blocks" and bound to be soon pissing off a legal system near you
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What Colour are your bits? - relevant to intellectual property somehow but I haven't read it yet.
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Traffic Waves - "sometimes one driver can vastly improve traffic."
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"Big and Bad" - Malcolm Gladwell's opinions of SUVs and their marketing. (same Malcolm Gladwell who wrote Tipping Point though I didn't make this connection when I read the article)
Food
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http://www.tonychor.com/archive/000443.html . . . I now know that it's better to cook bacon in the oven.