Posts filed under “General/Misc.”
Technological Progress
The fastest computer in the world in 1998, barely 10 years ago, was around 1 terraflop on almost 10,000 cores. Today, the Geforce GTX 280 costs around $400 and delivers around 950 Gigaflops.
On Being a Good Person
Am I someone who “does the right thing?” I may think I’m a person who does the right thing if I don’t cheat on my taxes, am never mean to my friends and try to help them, and try to spend some time donating or volunteering for a good cause. To be morally good (or [...]
Lorem ipsum
Those who have ever done publishing will be familiar with Lorem Ipsum. For those who don’t know, it’s just a long Latin text that’s used in publishing, so designers can do layouts before anything’s actually been written. That’s the ground for this observation: Rich Boy’s “Throw Some D’s” is the Lorem Ipsum of rap. At [...]
Mulberry: Tribute to the Greatest E-mail Program of All Time
For years I have used and loved Mulberry, perhaps the best e-mail client in existence. So I was greatly saddened to hear that Cyrusoft, the company behind Mulberry, declared bankruptcy a year ago. [more (full article)] I was just as much shocked as dismayed. Mulberry was hawked by so many colleges that I assumed its [...]