*scratch* Buffer

Current Mood: tired

"It would be pointless to observe that the finest volume of all the many hexagons that I myself administer is titled Combed Thunder, while another is titled The Plaster Cramp, and another Axaxaxas mlö."
         — "The Library of Babel" Jorge Luis Borges.

Position         Score           Team                   Problems Solved
21               2763.6783  	 Combed Thunder         16

 Step: 0 Distance: 2.2343e+06 VDiff: 3588.08
 ...
 Step: 711 Distance: 0.0530664 VDiff: 3.04898e-05

find . | grep -E "\.(cpp|cc|cxx|hpp|h|hxx)$" | etags -

gs -dNOCACHE -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=epswrite -dEPSCrop -sOutputFile=out.eps in.pdf

convert pagexxx.png -filter Cubic -resize 200% -threshold 50% -compress Group4 pagexxx.tiff
tiff2pdf -z -p letter -ro -x 1200 -y 1200 -o pagexxx.pdf pagexxx.tiff

set terminal postscript eps enhanced color solid linewidth 3 \
    "NimbusSanL-Regu,17" fontfile "/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvr8a.pfb"
set output 'cache_issue.eps'
set style data boxes
set boxwidth 0.2
set xlabel "Pirates"
set ylabel "Ninjas"
set grid y
set xrange [0:4]
set yrange [0:6]
set xtics ("1"  0.5, \
           "2"  1.5, \
           "3"  2.5, \
           "4"  3.5 )
plot '-' using ($1-0.7):($2) title "Red" with boxes fs pattern 0, \
     '-' using ($1-0.5):($2) title "Green" with boxes fs pattern 2, \
     '-' using ($1-0.3):($2) title "Blue" with boxes fs pattern 3
1 2.4104
2 4.4581
3 4.7087
4 4.7337
e
1 0.5815
2 1.0963
3 1.1257
4 1.1282
e
1 0.7219
2 1.3632
3 1.4184
4 1.4223
e

Current Mood: disappointed

Real life has sort of overtaken things and it's clear that I won't be able to get as far as I'd like in the ICFP contest so I've decided to bow out. Given that, I figure that I might as well save some time for those still in the running and impart some of my ray tracing knowledge. So I'm giving away two little routines that ought to be helpful to those still in the running. ( Read more )

A blog entry linked from proggit reminded me that the ICFP programming contest is coming up in about a month. Last year, I tried it solo but I think it would be much more fun to compete on a team together this year. (It also helps that I don't have a fixed work schedule this summer and that that weekend is in a dead-zone for paper deadlines.)

So anyway, this is an open invitation to anyone who reads this to think about teaming up.

Current Mood: calm

• boojum: 233MHz P2 desktop, main college machine
  
• grue: 100MHz P1 desktop, toy linux server
  
• jabberwock: 800MHz P3 desktop, first work machine
  
• wumpus: 1.8GHz P3 laptop, second work machine
  
• trogdor: 2.4GHz P4-M laptop (Dell Inspiron 8500), third work machine
  
• moogle: 3.06GHz P4 Northwood desktop (Dell Dimension XPS Gen 3), current home machine
• domokun: 624MHz XScale Pocket PC (Dell Axim x30)
  
• godzilla: 2.5GHz dual-G5 Mac tower, first school machine
  
• sphinx: 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo, 17" iMac (sonetka's current machine and choice of name)

tollingbell

sonetka

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Steeleye Span - King Henry

/* And then Little Cat A
 * Took the hat off HIS head.
 * "It is good I have some one
 * To help ME," he said.
 * "This is Little Cat B.
 * And I keep him about,
 * And when I need help
 * Then I let him come out."
 * And then B said,
 * "I think we need Little Cat C."
 *     -- "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back"  Dr. Seuss
 */
void little_cat(
    const char letter )
{
    if ( letter == 'Z' )
        voom();
    else
        little_cat( letter + 1 );
}