http://gemusehaken.org  /gro.nekahesümeG/ Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:42:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Excerpts from a translation I made of an article from the NRC M magazine, December 2007 special edition. Even though I have decided to only post in Dutch, since moving to the Netherlands, this is an interesting article for those outside the low countries... and it took me several hours, ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=130 Van de meeste tijd van m'n d-------l s-----s, ik vind nauwelijks dat de advies van -'- a------- zijn in m'n beste -----. Ja. Soms. En ook soms vind ik de Shostakovich String Quartet No. 15 in E-Flat Minor, Op. 144: I. Elegy (Adagio) niet zo speciaal. http://gemusehaken.org/?p=112 No thanks. I'm on Jenny Craig. Many in the sciences spend a reasonable amount of time writing, to disseminate their ideas, or simply to gather their thoughts. You, dear reader, might be one of them. When was the last time you read Strunk & White ? Is your copy of the ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=97 Sakyotr Povich Malovsky had spent several years trying to breed a new type of cabbage. It was a knarled eastern cabbage of his own design. He had spent the first several years perfecting a thought device (or process if you will) which he referred to as the "gedanken cabbage simulacrum". ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=94 Sakyotr Povich Malovsky was slowly losing his mind. In some sense, one might take this literally, since he would dash around the streets in his hills-to-spills neighborhood, wondering what had happened to his head; it wasn't in a vice grip, but it certainly wasn't in plain sight or yielding quickly ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=90 In the Xilinx Virtex 4 FPGA, the I/O transistors have 250nm gate length, memory and pass gates are 100nm, and logic is 90nm. http://gemusehaken.org/?p=87 About two years ago, I moved into a new office. One of the extant occupants of the office at the time had his wife visiting. They took a sudden interest in my nationality, and after a few side-channel communications, the office mate made it known to me that his wife ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=56 It would be interesting to know how many people, at a crossroad in their lives, choose to follow the ideals the truly believe in, rather than the safe choices. One could always argue that there are constraints — financial committments, personal, legal, other —. How often are these excuses ? ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=2 From whence cometh the name "Translation Lookaside Buffer". Why "lookaside" ? It turns out when the idea was invented, caches were rare, and were oft referred to as "lookaside buffers", so the translation cache was called a "translation lookaside buffer". The name stuck. (I found this shortly after midnight one night, when I just cracked open ... http://gemusehaken.org/?p=154