30 July 2009
Misc
A few misc links to round out the month.
Uzbl - a browser that adheres to the unix philosophy. I will admit to being horrified that Firefox frequently runs at 400M of memory, and this on a system where flash is NOT installed.
Chris Hecker's liner nodes for Spore
22 July 2009
Trading
Is there something wrong with certain kinds of trading? -- on order sniffing and 'front running.' My opinion here. You have to assume that this is happening. If not, you are a fool...
Article from Trader's magazine about flash and step-up orders.
20 July 2009
Trading
Spread betting with genetic programs.
10 July 2009
File Systems
Ceph is a distributed file system aiming to be better than the Nightmare File System (NFS).
9 July 2009
Floating Point
A mechanically checked proof of IEEE compliance of the floating point multiplication, division and square root algorithms of the AMD-K7 processor.
Similar, Implementation of the Lisp-Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic for a Vector Processor, Portable Standard Lisp on a Cray.
8 July 2009
Games
Experimental Video Game Evolves its own Content
7 July 2009
Finance?
Well, sports betting really - The man who shook up Vegas
Lisp
Shullfletron a common lisp music player for Linux
Simply scheme can be downloaded
Acclaim a presentation program in Common Lisp.
Modern dynamic linking infrastructure for PLT
Graphics
CIG'08 Proceedings
DataBases
The NOSQL debrief
MIT Database Systems (6.830) TA Course Notes
5 July 2009
Lisp
Blather about FPU optimization and threading with SBCL
Dumb but fast
Bruce O'NeelLast modified: Wed Jul 8 22:19:37 CEST 2009