Quite often, I hear complaints that coding for GPUs is difficult. In response to such comments, I believe that, for correct perspective, the discussion needs to be framed somewhat differently.

First of all, squeezing the last drop of performance out of modern CPUs is hard, too. Here’s a nice …

Is it possible to take the instrumentals from one track, the vocals from another, and come up with something that you’d actually want to listen to? Turns out yes:

Amazing what computers can do these days. (via Holger Levsen)

Original 1, Original 2.

I had a good laugh off this list of unintentionally offensive product names. As the title hints, Barf detergent is up there. But there’s one name that takes the cake. It hails from Germany, as it had to. To be precise, the electronics firm Trekstor decided to name the …

Have a friend who does not believe CO₂ emissions are real and may be harmful? Show them this:

1,662,780How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

(xkcd is great.)

Complex analysis on YouTube:

Yup, too cool not to share. :)

def fermat(n):
    """Returns triplets of the form x^n + y^n = z^n.
    Warning! Untested with n > 2.
    """
    from itertools import count
    for x in count(1):
        for y in range(1, x+1):
            for z in range(1, x**n+y**n + 1):
                if x**n + y**n …

Watch this:

You won’t regret it. :) (PS: Yes, I know it was made by a bunch of Germans, and yes, they misspelled “belief”, but that doesn’t kill it, in my opinion.)

Embarassing Update: I figured out how to embed youtube videos. :)