With the raining season being almost over this year, wildlife has experienced a lot of growth caused by the large amount of rainfall during the last months. Besides flora growing at enormous speed, also fauna has started to prepare for…
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Kincho summer
Pivot irrigation
Maybe you have seen them from an airplane when flying over large flat land that is turned into a huge agricultural mass production zone – center pivot irrigations.The idea behind this way of growing crop and other agricultural goods is…
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Spicy recommendation XXVII
As I was again in Kunitachi area I had the chance to check another Indian/Nepalese restaurant there. This time the location is rather close to Yaho station, but it is quite a walk if you get off at Kunitachi station.…
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Tagged with: Curry, Food and drink, Indian/Nepalese restaurant, Keema, Kunitachi station, Naan, Tokyo
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
Posted in Drink, Food, Spicy recommendation
VLBI explained
A colleague posted on FB about a video that explains very long base-line interferometry (VLBI) for the non-experts. A really nice animation that gives you all the necessary information without going too much into details or getting too technically. Thus,…
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Tagged with: Astronomy, Geodesy, Interferometry, Radio astronomy, Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Channel splitting of bit-sampled data with SSE
Most of the data I am dealing with is bit-sampled, i.e. each voltage reading is packed into one (or sometimes two) bit. However, several channels get merged into one data-stream and when the samples are written to disk, the bits…
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Dot-product with SSE4
I am currently working on a new project where I need to un-pack raw data very fast and efficiently. Moreover, I need to do several mathematical operations (FFTs, etc.) on batches of the data. Although it is planned to move…
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Tagged with: C Standard Library, Computer programming, Computing, dot-product
Posted in computer, math, programming
Posted in computer, math, programming
Spicy recommendation XXVI
Motivated by the good rating on Tabelog I went to a curry restaurant named “PUU-san”. The shop is located within walking distance from Musashi-Koganei station and should not be difficult to find (just follow the main street leading South from…
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Hairy programming languages
What makes a programming language a success? Well, there are many criterias and the answer would differ from person to person and from application to application. So let’s change the question and ask “What king of programmer designs a successful…
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KCachegrind
Since I moved from GNOME to KDE I have discovered a few very useful programs that make software development more comfortable. One of these little tools is KCachegrind. I am usually doing all my profiling and optimization with gprof, but…
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Tagged with: Computer programming, Debuggers, Profilers, Profiling, software development, Valgrind
Posted in computer, programming
Posted in computer, programming
Boost progress bar
I am recently using many different Boost libraries since they come in handy at various parts of my C++ code. Today I stumbled over one feature which is really nice when you have some program that executes over long time…
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