silver lining; with basically every human being on the internet right now binging on gillmore girls or somesuch, there won't be bandwidth for video chat much longer. My personal skype experience this morning in TX is what I imagine wireless radio to be in the 1930s

running is a great option right now; helps with the cabin fever and you don't even need to don the social distancing donut

<r>I think DrFPGA makes some excellent points. A cheap way to get some experience with fpga at roughly one tenth the price of a virtex board is <URL url="http://www.fpga4fun.com/">http://www.fpga4fun.com/</URL>. Also checkout ISE webpack, it's relatively easy to get some simple bit files together, t...

uninitialised variables are a common cause for this difference in behaviour, try valgrind or purify

pthread_t id = GetCurrentThreadID();

<t>yeh what do you need to know? valgrind{ helgrind,cachegrind,callgrind} is excellent for identifying race conditions, monitoring cache usage and calls executed, respectively. The latter has almost excruciating detail, you may want to use callgrind_annotate to summarise the profile data. There's lo...

we have an old federal home (~1860) in the US built over a cave system & subterranean creek; without a dehumidifier running there's a veritable swimming pool in the basement

I've used and would recommend reactor based patterns for this problem, eg., there's some solutions discussed here -> http://www.artima.com/articles/io_design_patterns2.html

can you set something like -fpe0 -traceback ala intel?

save yourself the hassle of manipulating bits for lack of an unsigned type (therein lies much anguish for C developers) and use bytebuffer

+1 scala; you might also check out functionaljava.org, I've hacked with this. The Sun java langspec is also a good read.

<r>what platform? Thrust (CUDA) has a merge sort, or you could check this out -> <URL url="https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/multicore/index.php/Parallelizing_Sort_Algorithms"><LINK_TEXT text="https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/multicore/in ... Algorithms">https://wiki.cc.gatech.edu/multicore/index.php/Parallelizi...

there's an example of a bitonic sort in gpu gems; thrust is an excellent STL-like CUDA template library with a few examples too

<t> acceleration==second derivative. After SplineUnderTension class instance foo is created with x/y data, a new point is simply foo.getInterpValue(x_new) etc. This method is robust w/ noise and large derivatives, very good for seismic data. a quick google reveals a few interesting talks on the subj...

<t>I dunno how helpful this-I'm in oil+gas- but I had to port some fortran to Java dealing with Cline's spline under tension; here's some untested C++, a quick'n'dirty port of the java. The method is particularly stable with regards to calculating the 2nd derivative, apologies in advance if I'm way ...