C++
Eigen – C++ library for Matrix Math
Research Links Eigen: Getting Started Eigen: sub Block functions – looks like only the .col() and .row() operations are going to apply to the topological algorithm
Computing
TinyCad
TinyCad is a schematic capture program that can output SPICE compatible netlists. It has library capabilities built in. A quick summary of tools used to Build and Maintain TinyCAD 1. Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, 2005, or 2008 Standard or Professional (Commercial tool $). Initial reports from other programmers are that Read more…
Computing
Open Source Software: Timing Editor
I needed to draw a timing diagram for a mixed signal class I took. I found Timing Editor The problem I was solving is shown below in the image. It's rather tedious to figure out. You have to remember that once a gate capacitance is charged up it ideally holds Read more…
Computing
Julius: two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software
Links Julius on sourceforge "Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated Read more…
Computing
QUCSEdit stand alone compile errors
Appears to be 2 types of errors Errors due to class changes going from Qt3 to Qt4 – These could probably be addressed with correct switch to include q3support library that is included with Qt4. I copied the q3textstream.h to the working directory to get around referencing error. By not Read more…
Open-Source
LibreCad based on QCad performs well as a DXF viewer
LibreCad on SourceForge – Written using Qtr4
Open-Source
WordPress hacked
Interesting that WordPress can be hacked. Observations Blog infected with malware base64 decode in index.php FAQ identified as redirector.ji Identified as Trojan:JS/BlacoleRef.W Research Google: base64 decode wordpress hacked site:dreamhost.com Case study of website malware removal WordPress Directory and File Permissions Tools Securi Scan – shows if your site is infected Read more…
Open-Source
Open Source Chess Engines
Mayura Chess Board – the GUI v2.3 chess engines for Mayura v2.0 Mayura Chess Engine Page Comprehensive List of Chess engines and their ratings – includes many open source versions – some are open source. The better ones require 64 bit processor. Mayura comes with Sjeng chess engine
Open-Source
Video: Arduino – Open Source Hardware Business Model and Revolution in the Making
You can see a huge number of Arduino projects on youtube.
Crowd-Sourcing
Crowd Sourcing the Rally Fighter Car – The future of production
The implications of the crowd sourcing are very interesting. Case in point is the Rally Fighter car that was designed by the crowd sourcing method. Their version of crowd sourcing has some obvious flaws however look to this to see the seeds of a coming revolution.