Open-Source on traviscj/blog

mnemonicode-0.73

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I found a really cool tool called mnemonicode.

It basically encodes an arbitrary string into some easily-sayable and understandble phrases:

Traviss-MacBook-Pro% echo "hello world" | ./mnencode
 Wordlist ver 0.7
square angel stone. blitz pacific tango. zebra shave basic
Traviss-MacBook-Pro% echo square angel stone. blitz pacific tango. zebra shave basic | ./mndecode
hello world

Numerical Recipes & Scientific Libraries

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I attended a talk on how to use Quest, Northwestern University’s TOP500 supercomputer(At least during June 2010). Most of it was a routine introduction to MPI, but one interesting question raised was what routines we should be using in our scientific computing codes. A lot of holdouts were still using [ Numerical Recipes] for their research-level codes, which strikes me as a backwards way about it. Numerical Recipes is a starting point, and probably not the best thing to use: it has awful licensing and might not even be that reliable!

Wiki Problems

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I really like the idea of having a wiki website. It’s great to be able to share documents really easily, be able to edit stuff without logging in, track changes you’ve made, and so on.

I have also tried quite a few wiki setups, including MediaWiki(mostly at a job a while back and a spectacular success), MoinMoin, and PmWiki. However, each of them fell flat in a certain annoying way.

Netlib

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Wow. Just wow.

Subversion Bite-sized Projects

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:00:00 +0000

Subversion added a tag in their bug-tracking database of projects that are ‘bite-sized’: self-contained, somewhat independent fixes that should happen. I’m not sure any look very interesting at the moment, but I’ll have to come back to it at some point. Bite-sized projects