Monthly Archives: July 2009

parallel processing and bash reduce

Posted on July 23, 2009 by admin

It’s sad that after all this time, one can look at any random article on parallel programming and find some variation of: for i = 1 … n create thread i do something end for as if that was the … Continue reading →

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RTOS design and embedded system development

Posted on July 15, 2009 by admin

Real-time operating systems are either a solved problem or a backwater of engineering design. Threads, semaphores, mutexes, some basic I/O, priority scheduling all of this has been more or less standardized in the  POSIX 1003.13 smaller profiles (51,52) for many … Continue reading →

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Mathematics education needs probability and art

Posted on July 11, 2009 by admin

I agree with this but really, basic ideas of calc are simple and could be taught easily early on too. Found here. But this paper is also good and even though I don’t agree with it 100%, I think it … Continue reading →

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