Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Piaggio Zip Tuning Ideas



Hello everyone,

I finally added my blog to the PlanetKDE , so here is the obligatory "Hello Planet" post.

First of all something about me: I'm an italian PhD student in Physics. I get to deal routinely with simulations and numerical analysis, which in my field means mostly FORTRAN. If you ever dealt with that you can probably feel my pain. I stick to C++ whenever I can, and in these cases Eigen is a life saver.

But sometimes I have some task which is not performance critical and is better suited for a scripting language. Then my choice is Lua .

My contributions to KDE include three things: Qt bindings for Lua, called "lqt" (with the help of Peter Kümmel), a tool that transforms C++ into XML ("cpptoxml") and a Kross backend for Lua named "kloss". I know, I suck at names...

If you look at the logs (or the fine graphics created by Paul Adams) you will notice that I commited two or three times in a several months period (my account dates from the KDE Bindings meeting in summer 2008). That is because I mostly develop in a separate repository and then commit a lot of changes at once.

You can find the most recent source of lqt here , with the most up to date version of cpptoxml. The Kross backend is kept in playground/bindings/kloss .

I plan to talk about what is lqt, how it works and what are our plans in the next posts.

I will also occasionally talk about how I hate FORTRAN, dislike C/C++ and feel the whole world should get rid of any other language to adopt Lua in every possible situation. Random ideas that somehow manage to evade the sanity filter may be spotted too...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

How To Invest In Rennaissance Technologies

Back in Pisa. Back from Pisa.

Yuasa-san è venuto in Italia per pochi giorni e non potevo farmi sfuggire l'occasione di incontrarlo. Come al solito è stato molto useful and we have solved many problems. Mostly him, I must confess. I'm pretty tired, or because we have worked continuously for the train ride today.

I was good to see friends, and I feel sorry for those who, inevitably, I could not cross. Pisa still does not like it, but in small doses is not terrible, and for three days the weather was even nice.

last update I saw three films: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Reader" and "Milk." The latter seems to have suffered some kind of veiled censorship, because it was impossible to see it in prime time, and still has not been shown before he won the Academy Award. So are all the more glad I saw the same. It's a fantastic film.



I have yet to see "Millionaire," which was the alternative for that evening. The expectations are good.

Also on Oscar Oktapodi was nominated for best animated short. The winner must be really spectacular and I'll see him soon.

The other two films I was not disappointed and worth to be seen if there is nothing better. Self-evident statement, I must admit, but I hope that the meaning is clear.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Ward's Ap Biology Lab Five Answers

Gauge coupling unification with magic fields

Sometimes
something good does happen. At least it seems ... we'll see.

I actually tried to do some photos at sunset. The park has come between us and the sun. Nevertheless, one is coming, but not to risk his life will be posting another ...


It seems to me a good excuse to try somewhere else, or am I wrong?

Friday, February 13, 2009

Marriage Tamil Kavitha

QMC in Slater determinants Spaces: A Game of Life, Death and Annihilation

as expected.

such an occasion could not pass unnoticed under the eyes of Google employees. But the logo was soon replaced by that of Valentine's Day ... Anyway, we had noticed it there before.

The lessons are not the best stochastic ("now there superfluids" "no, it was this morning at eleven"). For one - perhaps the first - when I remember the weekly, and the course is moved. In addition it seems that we will decide at the end of each lesson when to take the next ... Excellent ...

I do not complain of the condition of the house. It looks like much less of a warehouse now, and it is more the style of a camp. An improvement in the net, say, even if sooner or later we will have to devote a little more 'attention.

The routine is well established, and already I am exhausted. Also started some time back the sunny days, making it even uglier in the idea of \u200b\u200bclosing office to work. I think I will start to take long pauses to exit. The place is more than adequate and perhaps allow me to add some photos, since the blog languish for some time. The routine has definitely entered the swimming, but I also equipped for the rest.

Meanwhile, the work builds up on all sides, just as my commitment wavers. But for some strange alignment of the stars, perhaps due to a very particular configuration of planets called "Deadline for applications for funding to the Ministry", next week we have almost no lesson. Will I be able to exploit the opportunity or waste it, as always, reducing them at the last minute? A question

worthy of the end of an episode of the X-Files. Or a post, anyway.