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“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” –(Shakespeare 2.2.6) Alas, the smell of a rose is not the sole bearer of its beauty.  There’s also the the color, the gentle visual lines, the nesting of the petals … Continue reading →

Well,  this blogs updates have been far from reliable.  I’ve been busy (in the time since my last post here I’ve finished my Ph.D and moved on to a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University), but that’s no excuse!  This year, … Continue reading →

My university recently started providing Git hosting over Smart HTTPS.  Previously, they only provided subversion hosting.  I’ve used git for around 2 years now, so this is great news for me, and I asked them to create a repository for … Continue reading →

Eww. I ran into this little wart in the Scala language this morning.  Thank goodness that StackOverflow had an answer, or the frustration might have continued a while longer.   Basically, the wart deals with tuple unwrapping (or matching if … Continue reading →

So my labmate recently wrote a very nice blog post comparing some different solutions for speeding up Python code. The solutions he explored are either replacement interpreters, (restricted) python -> vm bytecode compilers, or (restricted) python -> C++ compilers. Some … Continue reading →

So we were having a discussion in the lab the other day about some of the more functional features of the Python language (and of course, I made sure to give Scala some love as well).  In particular, we were … Continue reading →

This post should act as a note to future Rob, as well as a hint to anyone else that runs into this problem after building and installing numpy. > ImportError: path_to_python/site-packages/numpy/linalg/lapack_lite.so: > undefined symbol: zgesdd_ I was motivated to build … Continue reading →

I’ve recently been exploring the Scala language. I used it mainly as a scripting language and in conjunction with Python and C++ in a recent research project. Now, I’m starting a more substantial (at least from a coding perspective) project, … Continue reading →

So I finally got around to releasing some code I wrote a few months ago. It’s basically an implementation of “Implicit Fairing of Arbitrary Meshes using Diffusion and Curvature Flow” by Desbrun et al. However, the interesting part about this … Continue reading →

So, there are a lot of new things going on in my graduate career right now, and this is also leading to a renewal of my efforts to accomplish other things I’ve previously wanted to do. I’m going to give … Continue reading →