A step spinwise: log

The joy of Runge-Kutta

John — 2006-10-12T14:29:46+09:30

At the moment, my work consists mostly of writing a generator that can build a n-dimensional integration routine out of a C++ description of the 1-dimensional version. For the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method in the Interaction picture, this is non-trivial. I'm trying to figure out how I can avoid making the parser have to actually parse the C++ code...

Global warming

John — 2006-09-06T13:27:15+09:30

Well, hopefully this will put an end to the interminable (and false) cries of "Global warming is a scaremongering campaign by the green/communist/science-mafia".

HPF is the root of all evil

John — 2006-08-13T14:45:19+09:30

One of the guys in the office here is working on some code written in HPF. I had forgotten just how evil it was. I am considering being a nice guy and helping him rewrite it to use MPI.

A quote from the Mountain Goats is in my head:

And I dreamed
of a camera
looking out from inside the television
and the aperture yawning and blinking
and the headstones climbed up the hill

If you haven't heard of the Mountain Goats you should have a listen. You can find them on the Internet Archive.

Arts grant application

John — 2006-08-12T20:09:01+09:30

I am applying for an arts grant from the Queensland government to implement an unusual kind of robot. The paperwork is mostly done, I'm just waiting on a quote for 3 x 40' shipping containers and 4 paintball guns. Hopefully that should give you some idea of the flavour of the project :)

Diary resumed

John — 2006-08-12T16:22:20+09:30

Well, ladies and gentlemen of the aether-network, I'm going to try this blogging thing once more. This blog is using NanoBlogger, which is a neat little tool which uses shell scripts to create a static weblog. That way this page can live happily on the rather antiquated webserver here at Physics.