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In Praise of Plodders
My brother is some sort of mathematical prodigy. When I was in high school I would show him my toughest assignments. Although he was two years junior to me, he would stare at the problem for some minutes and then … Continue reading
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A little intelligence, artificially.
KMeans is a windows console application to find clusters in data with any number of columns ( attributes ) using the KMeans algorithm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering ) Usage: KMeans <data dimension> <data file path> <number of clusters> The iris data set ( … Continue reading
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Talking to satellites
Starting work on SpaceCom to enable error free communication between satellites and the ground using the NASA TC SPACE DATA LINK PROTOCOL CCSDS 232.1-B-2
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SWEEPEM
In the 1980s this Canso flying boat was photographed over the Gatineau Hills searching for ore deposits using a new electromagnetic system called SWEEPEM. Built in the 1940s to hunt submarines under the North Atlantic, the aircraft’s ability to flow … Continue reading
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Nana
Nana is a cross-platform library for GUI programming in modern C++ style. v1.5.5 was released this week and includes a small contribution from me that allows application code to set the default width of text entry fields.
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Hour of Code
Two little kids with big grins came to fetch me. Roy and Kasha looked as delighted as I felt to be rescued from the grey busyness going on among the grey adults in the school admin office. Up the stairs … Continue reading
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Busify
A bus trip planner application for windows desktops coded in C++11, capable of finding the optimal trip between two locations through the Nottingham City bus network in less than 2 milliseconds. Features User inputs an unlimited number of bus timetables. … Continue reading
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Conveyor Belt Pulley Design
Raven’s Point contributed to the development of a calculation engine to perform Finite Element Analysis ( FEA ) of conveyor belt pulley designs. The FEA code was optimized and parallelized so that it ran in a few seconds, numerous consistency and … Continue reading
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cRunWatch GUI report
Added code timing profiler report in a string, so GUI applications can be profiled. cRunwatch
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Stackoverflow Reputation Milestone
Today I reached 10,000 reputation points on stackoverflow.
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