I’ve not used a linked list since my Pascal days, and have oft-wondered how one would create such a thing in Python. Well, I’ve found my answer in looking over the ctypes docs today.
Archive for the ‘Neat’ Category
Sometimes, when someone screws something up royally and it pisses you off, it happened for a good reason.
For example, Acxiom screwed up my background check already with this new job. They called my CURRENT employer and started asking questions.
The good side? To make up for the fact that they may have just gotten me fired, they’re going to push through the background check.
God DOES work in mysterious (if not aggravating) ways…
Sometimes Google scares me:
What is Google’s Lighthouse? by ZDNet’s Richard MacManus — The Google Analyst Day earlier this week threw up a conspiracy theory of sorts, Is it a security function, or a next-generation search for desktop files? Or… with Google initially providing a powerpoint file of the presentation that had extensive notes about upcoming products named as: GDrive, GDS and Lighthouse. Greg Linden was one [...]
While looking up the word ginormous on Wiktionary, I accidently discovered a whole list of “frankenwords”.
Heh. This is gonna be fun!
One of the new toys shown at the CES this year is the Celstron SkyScout.
Basically, it’s a GPS-enhanced monocular. You point it at a star, press a button, and it will tell you the name of it. If you’re looking for a star, the view-finder will display directional arrows, leading you to the object(s) in question.
I wonder if they can make one that doesn’t use a GPS? After all, NASA developed star-based navigation for spacecraft some time ago.
Well, I feel bad because I only did 90% of the work I was supposed to do, but I got sick near the end of it all.
Anyways, Jalopy Journal has a new look and feel - Ryan did the design, I did the HTML and Wordpress templating.
I think it’s a kick-ass design.
Recently, the University of Michigan has had a break-through in quantum computing - they’ve developed and used a reproducible method of manufacturing a quantum computer. That’s right. Non-quantum encryption? Means nothing, now. SSL certificates? Not unless you’re using quantum “encryption” to protect the connections. Otherwise, the data will simply be captured and unencrypted in a matter of seconds (in theory).
Wow. Quantum computation, in my lifetime. This was one of those things I thought I’d see as an old man, telling my grandkids, “I remember when they were just starting to talk about the possibilty of making these things. Now they make your coffee.”
So, let’s say we apply the ion-trap (see the article, below) to something really powerful by today’s standards - say an AMD Opteron, and it simply uses the single qubit for “spooky” interaction with other AMD Opteron’s with the same ion trap. That is, sync up the particles using the electrical controls, and you’ve now got a processor that can pass on its “spooky” data on to another AMD processor - and this can’t be emphasised enough - instantly.
From the article:
“There is a worldwide race to build these (chips) right now, as such an integrated chip structure shows a way to scale the quantum computer to bigger systems—just like the microfabrication of conventional chips have given us the impressive gains in conventional computing speed and power,” Monroe said.
Worldwide is right - whichever country gets it first, will likely own the world, information-wise. Who can we trust with this sort of power?
U-M develops scalable and mass- producible quantum computer chip from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the University of Michigan have produced what is believed to be the first scalable quantum computer chip, which could mean big gains in the worldwide race to develop a quantum computer.
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I think that’s all I’m going to say on that. If the post gets pulled, I’ll only be guilty of providing a dead link.
Trevis Rothwell at clearps.com has put up a detailed and thorough tutorial on building a basic, yet functional, weblog application in PHP using MySQL as the storage backend. He even gives the basics regarding using a database in PHP, and gives an explanation of the technologies used. Check it out here.
