July 12th, 2011 by Melaneum
Quick summary: night vision video on a budget.
Apparently, or so I discovered recently, a baby requires care all the time. All the time. Even when sleeping peacefully. Just take at the
range of products and you’ll see that this did not escape some astute companies.
Category: DIY, open source | 2 Comments »
June 29th, 2011 by Melaneum
After one year without doing much with cuda (since this), I’m back!
Category: Cuda | No Comments »
January 23rd, 2011 by Melaneum
After living in the US for 3 months, I still don’t get it: how is it possible that this country is still not using the metric system? According to wikipedia US is among only 3 countries in the world where this is not the official system of measurement. The other two are Burma and Liberia. No comment.
Category: Reflection | 2 Comments »
April 19th, 2010 by Melaneum
Recently, I got more interested in the subtleties of different open source licenses. Luis Ibáñez pointed be to some books about that.
Category: Books, open source, Reflection | No Comments »
February 17th, 2010 by Melaneum
With all the recent multicore CPU, the bottleneck of processing is increasingly the IO from the disk. When compiling a bit project (especially linking), when processing gigabyte of data (now that loading up 4 GB in RAM is not a problem)…
Category: Linux | No Comments »
January 25th, 2010 by Melaneum
The Wisdom of Crowds is one of the latest book I’ve read that got me thinking. The general idea of the book is now quite well-known: combining the decision of a great number of people can reach an optimal choice more reliably than relying on an expert. But there are also several examples that are worth mentioning.
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January 19th, 2010 by Melaneum
That’s not the first time that I use PolSARpro, the free software from ESA for SAR polarimetry, but every time, the installation is a bit tricky. Here are the steps to get it running on an update Debian testing.
Category: Remote sensing | 4 Comments »
December 18th, 2009 by Emmanuel Christophe
November 26th, 2009 by Melaneum
Just finished the book “Coders at work” from Peter Seibel where he interviewed some of the most accomplished coders/programmers in the art/craft/engineering/science of programming.
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October 14th, 2009 by Melaneum
I like the source code to look good, have uniform presentation, etc. Maybe I’m a bit particular, but I’m definitely not alone here: KWStyle is a great tool to check a number of files and signal the imperfections. This is especially valuable for project where several people are involved and all using different editors.
Category: Python | No Comments »
