I have a post up on FSMLabs web site about the use of GPS and other satellite time for MiFID II timestamp compliance. It’s fascinating how much effort has recently gone into trying to convince people that MiFID II will
Kirkhart’s conjecture
Is that there is some insight into the nature of primes that comes from considering the classes of numbers that share the same set of prime factors. For example 2x3x5 = 30, 4x3x5 = 60, 2x9x5 = 90, 2x3x25 =
Relaxed memory order
Two interesting posts on the order in which reads and writes happen and are made visible on shared memory multi-processors. X86 has a strong memory model in which if X=Y=0 and then processor core 1 writes 1 to X and
Algebra for computer science and function nesting
The fundamental mathematical basis of computer science is that code and data are the same things. A sequence of bits can represent real numbers, integers, vectors, groups, matrices, video , audio, or programs, algorithms or even proofs. When we try
Patent 5,995,745
Adding real-time support to general purpose operating systems AbstractA general purpose computer operating system is run using a real time operating system. A real time operating system is provided for running real time tasks. A general purpose operating system is
RTLinux early paper from 20 years ago
An early RTLinux paper with Michael Barabanov. real_time_1996 Only 20 years later, the idea is now not too scary. Real-Time Linux Michael Barabanov Victor Yodaiken March 3, 1996 1 Introduction If you wanted to control a camera or a
ultrafinitism
I have seen some ultrafinitists go so far as to challenge the existence of 2100 as a natural number, in the sense of there being a series of “points” of that length. There is the obvious “draw the line” objection,
Windows support in Timekeeper and MiFID II Compliance
TimeKeeper® PTP/NTP time synchronization software now works on Microsoft Windows® Operating Systems including Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. This has been a lot longer in coming than we originally expected because most of our early customers turned