Python has accumulated a lot of… character over the years.  We’ve got no less then 3 profiling libraries for single threaded execution and a multi-threaded profiler with an incompatible interface (Yappi).  Since many applications use more then one thread, this can … Continue reading →

Swig is a fabulous tool — I generally rely on it to extricate myself from the holes I’ve managed to dig myself into using C++.  Swig parses C++ code and generates wrappers for a whole bunch of target languages — I … Continue reading →

I thought I wanted to customize the layout of my document a little bit, so I started looking at the various styles that are available. Then I came upon the memoir package (which is supposed to help with these things); … Continue reading →

I’m a frequent (some might say avid) user of the Vim text editor. I’ve been using it off and on for the past 15 years, and it’s frequently saved me quite a bit of time with the handy macro system. … Continue reading →

Something miraculous that I just realized: middle clicking (aka pasting the X buffer) on the KDE desktop creates a “post-it” note with the contents of the clipboard. Whether I will ever make use of this feature is unclear but it’s … Continue reading →

Normally, when confronted with (inevitably weird and annoying) YouTube commercials, I’m hovering over the “Skip Ad” link, waiting for it to be enabled. But today, I saw an advertisement so odd, that I was forced to watch through the whole … Continue reading →

My home internet sucks, relatively speaking. Anytime something shows up as “HD”, I know that it’s not going to work out for me. This is not at all surprising, given that I only have one choice (Time Warner) and they … Continue reading →

Since it’s still ugly out, how about some pretty leaves that I found on my cellphone camera…

I spent a few hours today debugging this — GPU programming is its own special form of hell. It turns out I had to disable ECC and reset the GPU: nvidia-smi -i 1 -e 0 nvidia-smi -i 1 -r Naturally, … Continue reading →

Sigh. The John Kerry post-2008 is just so much more relaxed and entertaining. I’d vote for him. (Admittedly, I voted for him in 2008 as well). How to Beat Jet Lag: Forget About It (John Kerry) I can’t say my … Continue reading →