La notte della rete
Online video chat by Ustream La censura della rete è un vecchio tarlo bipartisan italiano e sta arrivando a compimento in questi giorni. La nostra classe dirigente teme internet, perché anarchica e...
View ArticleEmergent ants... the wet way
Ants never cease to amaze. A group of scientists of the Georgia Institute of Technology studied how groups of ants "link" themselves together forming a self-assembled organic structure that... does...
View ArticleARM about to create connectionist's paradise
ARM is developing a new kind of architecture which is supposed to run a simulation of the human brain. We're not talking about an artificial intelligence here, the project is about the reconstruction...
View ArticleTeamwork
I'm Hofstadter's huge fan, therefore I use to look at ants as sub-symbolic living metaphors, without any real will except that of the colony. From the collective behaviour, smoothed by evolution,...
View ArticleTeamwork 2
I took this picture in Corse, while camping at Plage d'Arone. I found these three ants busy in carrying a grape to the nest. They simultaneously attacked the fruit and began to cooperate, by placing...
View ArticleChe bello...
...quando le cose iniziano a funzionare. Tra qualche anno, son certo che la programmazione GPGPU sarà all'ordine del giorno ed esisteranno efficaci strumenti di supporto allo sviluppo e al debug. Fino...
View ArticleScova l'outlier
La fregatura di non poter frequentare tutte le lezioni, anche a causa di tediose sovrapposizioni di orario. A tal proposito, sarebbe interessante sviluppare l'organizzazione settimanale degli...
View ArticleRIP dmr
#include int main() { printf("Goodbye world\n"); printf("%c%c%c Dennis Ritchie\n", 82, 73, 80); return -1; }
View ArticleVademecum anti-Renzi
Matteo Renzi alla "Ruota della Fortuna". Vinse 48milioni di lire. Per usare un eufemismo, il sindaco di Firenze Matteo Renzi è una anomalia della politica italiana. Sedicente uomo "di sinistra", è...
View ArticleMission accomplished
Rastrigin's benchmark function is far more photogenic than I am I finally got my Master's Degree in computer science, by defending a strongly interdisciplinary thesis about GPGPU-powered parameter...
View ArticleAutomated twits from a workstation, using IFTTT
When optimizing parameters of stochastic systems you can have hard time predicting when the process is going to end. It would be nice if the workstation itself warns you when it's done, just like...
View ArticleHOWTO fix shared Google calendars not showing up in Android
Google calendar is a simple and useful tool for sharing informations about events and tasks with colleagues. The nice part is that you can gather many calendars and sum them up in a single view. The...
View ArticleUsing Nsight with a GTX 590
Update: Nsight Development Platform, that is, Parallel Nsight v2.2 finally introduces the single-GPU debugging capability. This is good and allows you to skip the following paragraph. The only way to...
View ArticleDNA and fractals
DNA is a very interesting molecule, not only for its peculiar role in life. It has a solid structure and the Watson-Crick complementarity allows the construction of complex structures, by exploiting...
View ArticleFrom Protein Data Bank to... Blender!
Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) is a stunning piece of software. Not only it is a powerful tool for molecules visualization and rendering, but it is very useful tool for converting PDB structures into...
View ArticlePython, my first time
When it comes to learning a new technology I need some starting project that pushes me and gives me "momentum". In particular, it was years that I wanted to learn Python. I touched this language two...
View ArticleMeta-programming in Python
Python gives the programmer a plethora of facilities for the meta-programming, for instance the introspection of objects, modules, and such. Moreover, like many other interpreted languages, it allows...
View ArticleGiornalismo italiano e copia/incolla
Qual è la probabilità che due redattori di due testate indipendenti e teoricamente concorrenti scrivano due articoli completamente identici, parola per parola? Diciamo zero? Al di là dell'assoluta...
View ArticleDear Hollywood, are you trying to tell me something?
IMDB's home page. Do you notice anything? Today I bumped upon IMDB as I came to know that a fourth chapter of Toy Story is in production: a sad commercial move. Anyway, when I loaded the home page,...
View ArticleUbuntu, launch problem with Nvidia GeForce (GTX 590?)
I experienced serious difficulties in launching my Ubuntu live distribution. In particular, both the 11.10 and the 12.04 versions did not recognize any keyboard (PS/2 or USB, it was the same), and...
View ArticleSemplici ipocriti o autentici fessi allo sbaraglio?
I grillini, aka movimentisti a cinque stelle, sono riusciti a diventare il primo secondo partito alla Camera* sulla base di un atteggiamento intransigente di rottura con la "vecchia" politica, intesa...
View ArticleOn Golden Rules
Western society is permeated, on some extent, by a latent christian mentality. Even though a small part of western population is really christian, in a strict sense, "we" all agree on a passage of...
View ArticleSetting kernel constants using CUDA driver API
CUDA uses special qualifiers (namely, __constant__) to tell to the compiler that some variables should be placed direcly in a cached memory banks. The content of such variables (e.g., numeric values,...
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