Posts by Frank_M

Running the Gauntlet: Atari's classic ... now and then

"Pick up your skirt and run old man"

Programming languages in economics: Cool research, bro, but what about, er, economics?

Re: Mathematica, IDL

Mathematica will compile to C++, so it can run pretty fast as long as your data structure isn't any more complicated then an array. I guess that is considered language specific.

What surprised me most in the paper( yes I went and read it, mostly) was that the gcc compiler beat both the ifort and intel c. I would have to image that is due to auto vectorization.

Symantec: Antivirus is 'DEAD' – no longer 'a moneymaker'

Re: It won't be missed

They moved their coding from Texas to India and had to train a new staff of coders and engineers.

Prez Obama cyber-guru: Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers

Re: Sauce for the goose.-

Invalidating patents and copyrights of U.S companies in EU. would have no effect.

If fact it would only assist Berry in his mission to destroy U.S. business.

He would spin it as more redistribution to his freeshit army.

Mathematicians spark debate with 13 GB proof for Erdős problem

Re: Yes indeedy

Suppose my finite sequence is the first 10 numbers in the list, and I pick 11.

Dammit, now I'm going to have to read this silly paper or I won't get any sleep.

Better late than never: Monster 15-core Xeon chips let loose by Intel

This sounds like a job for lapack man.

OHM MY GOD! Move over graphene, here comes '100% PERFECT' stanene

Re: Resistance is futile

Yes but with super conduction nano wire we could build room temperature super conducting memristors that function in the pico second range.

Then HP could put them up on a shelf, join hands and dance around singing "we have something you can't have."

Upstart's 'FLASH KILLER' chips pack a terabyte per tiny layer

How about a gig of L1?

Anonymous leaks 'Bank of America secrets' in spy revenge hack

Re: No news there

Banks are complete bastards, but a bank never rounded up a whole village shot everyone, boiled up the bodies and feed them to the red army because they had run out of horse meat and road-kill.

That's a good day for zee central Kommitte

Not really. If the banks fail then we will have to do business with zee central kommitte.

Anonymous stole OneCalais software and put dumped it to the public. So now some team of coders will probably be looking for work when OneCalais fails.

Anonymous stopped being funny 5 years ago.

Google pits C++ against Java, Scala, and Go

FORTAN

The only "high" level language that regularly beats C++ is FORTRAN. 50 years old and still the champ. Of course the FORTRAN code must be recompiled for each machine architecture and the FORTRAN compiler is written in C++.

Honey I shrunk the chip ... now what?

FPGAs

You can experiment with whatever hardware config. you want with a FPGA card.