severak
15.7.2020 10:48:41
Rewriting FORTRAN Software In Rust | mckeogh.tech
github.com/rse-standrewscs/shallow-water TL;DR: Rewriting isn’t always bad, Amdahl’s Law is important and memory bandwidth is a potential bottleneck when doing many simple double precision math operations Introduction As part of an Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme in my first year of university I was tasked with parallelising a piece of shallow water simulation software written in FORTRAN by Dr David Dritschel of the Vortex Dynamics Research Group, under supervision of Dr. Alexander Konovalov, at the University of St Andrews.
severak
14.7.2020 15:47:15
Eight go mad in Arizona: how a lockdown experiment went horribly wrong
In the 1990s, a troupe of hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2. They ended up starving and gasping for breath. As a new documentary Spaceship Earth tells their story, we meet the ‘biospherians’
severak
14.7.2020 14:30:10
The Real Dunning-Kruger Graph
from https://graphpaperdiaries.com/2017/08/20/the-real-dunning-kruger-graph/
severak
14.7.2020 10:55:50
Yello - The Race (Extended Remix)1988
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpKxoiAj5K8
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