For a really long time I was using ClustrMaps to monitor and display the origin of my homepage visitors. However, ClustrMaps offers only a few features unless you are willing to pay a small fee for their professional version. Since…
For a really long time I was using ClustrMaps to monitor and display the origin of my homepage visitors. However, ClustrMaps offers only a few features unless you are willing to pay a small fee for their professional version. Since…
Google Scholar is likely the most useful application for scientists provided by the guys from Mountain View. First of all, it is free. Similar services like the Web of Knowledge are only accessible if your institute pays for that. One…
I know that I misspelled “tedious” but I wanted to abbreviate the way how Apply updates my iPod with the latest OS (5.0). Before the v5 release was announced my iPod worked like a charm, played videos without interruption and…
Until Fedora 15 I somehow managed to get the NVIDIA driver and the CUDA compiler running, but Fedora 16 seems to quite of a hurdle. I tried something similar as for F15, including a patch which solves the Kernel version…
For long time I was keeping my homepage up-do-date and I have been posting on this blog. More than half a year ago I ported my homepage to Drupal and thought that things become more easy, but it turned out…
The bilinear interpolation is a quite useful mathematical approach when it comes to interpolation in a two- or higher-dimensional regular grid. Other than a nearest neighbour approach or simple block averaging, this method provides a somewhat “continuous” field. Thereby, one…
A few months ago I wrote about the Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) which could be an interesting alternative for continuous wavelet transforms. I almost forgot about that topic, but today I stumbled over it again. Thus I applied it to my…
I happens quite often that I need to insert an equation in one of my presentation slides or posters. Although either OpenOffice or Powerpoint have some way to present formulas or equations, their quality and appeal is quite poor. For…
When checking my page counter this morning I saw that this blog had its ten thousandth visitor on September 1st. I know that this is quite poor compared to other pages and 10,000 visitors is nothing to normal blogs that…
Most of my real-time stuff (mainly signal processing) runs on the GPU and I really like CUDA because it is as simple as C or C++ but allows you to tune your graphic card to get the maximum performance you…