AGEIA’s “PhysX” physics chip supposedly provides hardware accelerated physics for computer games (and ostensibly other applications). This is an interesting idea, as interactive physics are important for creating convincing virtual worlds. Even a bare-bones matrix math accelerator chip would be …More
Archive for May, 2005
The Living Force
May 19, 2005
Yoda kicks ass. Went to see the new Star Wars movie last night at 1am with Claudia, Tammy and some other people. After the manifest crappiness of the first two, I basically had zero expectation of this one being good. …More
Damn! That painting's fine, man.
May 18, 2005
More or less finished. I need to do another coat of black across the background to get an even level of glossiness, and touch up a thing or two, but that’s it. It’s hanging in my room and it’s beautiful. …More
Hikari no Naka e
May 18, 2005
… When I lockedThe box of memoriesSomething broke and scattered The voices that call outEven the songs you loved–They don’t reach you now One day, surelyYou’ll lead the boatThat’s sinking into the darknessInto the light
The easiest class ever.
May 17, 2005
Finished my ee108b program in an hour today. That’s starting, with no idea what the assignment was about, reading the docs, coding, debugging, and submitting perfect working code. Actually there was no debugging, it worked perfectly the first time. From …More
Rereturnage
May 17, 2005
Can Sar, you crazy Austrian. I found your problem. Kernel(code monkey) = CS major. Think about it. Your head is banging on the keysthe code has brought you to your kneeswhen all your problems are NP-hardbecome a silly classics bard!
Senior Formal
May 16, 2005
My busy social schedule continued last night with Mirlo special dinner at 6pm and senior formal at 9:30. Mirlo special dinner was more fun than I thought it would be. I was a little overdressed in my tux since I …More
Pressant Tense
May 16, 2005
Look at the happy moronHe doesn’t give a damnI wish I were a moronMy god, perhaps I am. Adam attributes that to me, though I don’t remember composing it. Anyways, I spent most of today studying physics and it seemed …More
Mr. Schrodinger, your cat has been found
May 15, 2005
I hope you guys all appreciate the umlaut in “Schrodinger”, because I had to hex edit my blog database to put it there (Hex Workshop, by the way, it the best hex editor ever). I read an interested article in …More
