Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Using the GPU for Real Work: A Postmortem

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After doing about a dozen projects with CUDA/GPU for my own edification, I made the mistake of trying to help out some friends on their p...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

The Infinite Mystery of NVIDIA Linux Device Drivers 2/2

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In our previous post we outlined what you have to do to install the NVIDIA graphics device driver under Centos / Redhat Linux 6.5 and sim...

The Infinite Mystery of NVIDIA Linux Device Drivers 1/2

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We are now going to do a series of boring technical notes that nevertheless fulfill a more noble purpose. Those of us who are inter...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Order Out of Chaos in Pi (1998)

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NB: The following does not contain a spoiler but it does refer to one of the fundamental concepts of the movie Pi (1998).. There is a ...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

The Subtext of the Animated Explanation in The President's Analyst (1967)

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NB : This post refers to a key point in the climax of the film The President's Analyst (1967). There is an obscure sub-genre of an...
Friday, February 14, 2014

WebGL on Second Thought and a Brief Note on OpenGL ES 3.0

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This is a brief note to say that after all the sturm und drang  expressed on this blog while learning WebGL 1.0, that it has become my fa...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Alan Turing Set to Challenge Lego for Boxoffice Fame

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[Update 2-11-2014  My correspondents in Berlin tell me that Harvey and Bob Weinstein are on the very top level of the Hilton .... whereas ...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Can Glenn Greenwald be Tried for a Crime in the Snowden/NSA Affair?

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I realize that not many of my readers may be very interested in the NSA/Snowden affair, or at least not very interested in what I have to...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Notes on Taking the Train from Oceanside to Culver City 1/31/14

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In order to understand the context of this post, its important to know that when the City of Los Angeles planned the Red Line into Hollywo...
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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Who Stole Japan's Submarine?

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Great events of history often start with deceptively small incidents.   A glacier melts and suddenly we have Global Warming.  Several gay ...