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Phimuemue, in a recent post (at the time of writing, anyway) present his variation on sorting floating point values using radix sort. His implementation wasn’t dealing with the pesky sign…

Peter Brass — Advanced Data Structures — Cambridge University Press, 2008, 492 pp. ISBN 978-0521-88037-4

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The first part of the book concentrates on search…

Ulrich Meyer, Peter Sanders, Jop Sibeyn (eds.) — Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies — Springer, (Lectures Notes on Computer Science LNCS # 2625), 2003, 428 pp. ISBN 978-3540-00883-5

On Eskimo Disco’s MySpace Video Page.

In many fields of economics, a particular class of functions called Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) functions are privileged because of their invariant characteristic, namely that the…

As you already know—if you read my blog before—I use Emacs as my primary editor, for C, C++, Python, LaTeX, etc., and I’ve grown fond of the clunky ol’ piece of software. Still, once in a…

Have you ever add to decide, you and your colleagues, where to go for lunch? Each time, it ends up being a committee, of course. It gets even worse when not only you have many colleagues, but also…

In Calibrating your LCD for Better Results I presented a few techniques to adjust your LCD so that you get better colors, even though it’s not a perfect calibration.

I have a couple…

I am the author of bug #501192 in Ubuntu. The bug is about the fact that glib, in Ubuntu, doesn’t use the distribution specific way of getting the default terminal emulator: the…