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.

The SciPy‘09 conference ended less than a week ago. At the invitation of the SciPy‘09 organizers (especially Fernando Perez), Nicolas Pinto gave a talk in the Advanced Tutorials track on how to use PyCUDA to do GPU scripting.

First, I would like to use this opportunity to publicly …

As a math person, you’re often faced with the task of communicating about math. Unfortunately, most modern means of communication, be it email, the web or instant messages, aren’t really suited to typing math. Fortunately, however, many of these means do allow the use of Unicode, and Unicode …

I’m happy to introduce PuDB, a full-screen, console-based visual debugger for Python that I recently cooked up.

Or install it simply by typing

easy_install pudb

into your Unix shell. Here’s a screenshot of it in action:

Python has had decent debugging support for a while …

Here’s a waste of time I could just not resist: MIT‘s Project SIMILE has released a rather nice Timeline Web Widget. Combine that with GitPython and a bit of glue code in Python, and you get a neat, one-page summary of the software work I’ve done as …

Happy 10⁹-day to me!

date -d'NNNN-NN-NN + 1000000000 seconds'
Mo 13. Apr 01:46:40 EDT 2009

From the department of “what’s Andreas wacthing on Vimeo“: Here’s something amazing you can apparently do with one day of filming and two years of post-production.

World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.

One thing I could especially relate to about this video is the feeling of time-constrained …

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about the global economic meltdown. You’ll probably have also listened to people explain it, maybe even understood what’s going on. Regardless, this video I recently found sums it up again very nicely:

The Crisis of …