mdavidson

Siggraph next week baby!

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:46:37 GMT

W00t. It only took me 10 years :). Now to get a paper accepted...

nullptr strong type

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:31:56 GMT

From:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/nullptr

Kinda nice...

const // It is a const object...
class nullptr_t
{
public:
template
operator T*() const // convertible to any type of null non-member pointer...
{ return 0; }

template
operator T C::*() const // or any type of null member pointer...
{ return 0; }

private:
void operator&() const; // Can't take address of nullptr

} nullptr = {};

Funny stuff...

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:58:23 GMT

Sarah to Jimmy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG3S5WzHig

Jimmy to Sarah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGa29kPBbp4&feature=related

Oooook!

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:47:25 GMT

As the Librarian once stated... Erhhhr, got very drunk and very reflective last night. I also aced my review for work, getting a "Superior Rating", hence the drinking. Blah, cleaning crap out of teeth and off to work.

entry

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:34:12 GMT

I have many thoughts in an instant. Many to choose from and my problem in the past was to lock onto one specific one. My gift with age is to disregard that I have chosen and to evaluate all others with dispassionate reasoning.

My new notebook

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:48:02 GMT

Display: 15.4" WideXGA+ 1440 x 900 LCD (720p)
Video/Graphics Card: 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800M GTX
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz (6MB Cache 800MHz FSB)
Memory: 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 667MHz – 2 x 2048MB
System Drive: 160GB 7200 RPM (8MB Cache)

BEAST! :)

mmm Lock free parallelism

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:49:02 GMT

Lock free parallelism has become a big thing recently (what with most processors utilizing at least 2 cores), my own with 4.
I started writing a lock free threading system on the weekend, and am now in the research phase of a lock free thread local memory management system.

Anyway, this is where my current research is at:

http://www.cs.umass.edu/%7Eemery/hoard/asplos2000.pdf
http://www.hoard.org/

Signal Processing

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:56:36 GMT

I've been playing with signal processing a lot in my spare time lately. Mainly, I'm trying to formalize my knowledge of digital signal processing and audio modeling...

In relation to this I've come across this funky little toy :) .

http://puredata.info/downloads

My overall plan is to physically model a car engine... but I have a fair way to go, so I'm focusing in the short term on writing a good cross platform audio engine.

No one likes a quitter :p

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:47:21 GMT

But it is most definitely time too. It is time to let go of one of the greatest love affairs of my life. I'm quitting smoking :)

It hasn't got the power captain!

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:42:17 GMT

My new machine wasn't quite fast enough, so my solution was?

I whacked another 8800 GTX in, and clocked the speed up to 3.1 Ghz. It's barely fast enough for diabolical evil shader plans now!

I'm rendering this:

http://www.3d02-ae.com/html_3d_Model/3d_model_main.asp?id=20750#

Using dynamic AO, and about 10 new HDR shaders... I'm on an optimization pass now, but I'll post pics when I can :)

ARRRRGGGHHHHHH!

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:47:09 GMT

I thought nVidia was going to be releasing this yesterday:
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/24/nvidia-claims-g92-will-be-a-1-teraflop-beast

1 teraflop my hairy left nut.

Instead they released this pile of shit for "consumers"
http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1193646673731.html

Now you know what I'm going to have to do huh? Yes, buy another 8800 GTX to run in SLI to keep me going until summer. Which pissed me off all the more, because it reinforces their lead. Come on ATI, how about a bit of fucking competition to keep these bastards releasing...

Photos of new baby

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:58:49 GMT

They're up!

Oh, and winter is nearly here!

My new baby

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:03:36 GMT

So I finally got around to upgrading:

QuadCore QX6700 o/c to 3.2.
.evga 680i Motherboard
.evga 8800 GTX
4 GB of OCZ Memory
1Kw power supply
Zalman Fatal1ty case
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/376

Fatal1ty cooler
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/389

System runs at 30 C overclocked 500 mhz. I really like these new intel chips.

14000 odd 3dmark 2006 points. :). I'll upload pics tomorrow.

Inside the new machine:

Geek heaven:

Ouroboros

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:17:52 GMT

Working 11 hr days without lunch to live in a country that has such amazing events that you have to work these hours to attend. The problem is that you are so tire of working at the end of it that you no longer feel like attending these events that you came for in the first place. So you go back to work in the morning, and ahh, fuck it...

OH MY GOD THIS IS GREAT!

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:13:35 GMT

Didn't make it to siggraph

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:25:07 GMT

But at least they were talking about what I was doing "back at the ranch :p"

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=15061

My hands hurt

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:20:13 GMT

The 1000's of hours I've logged driving a compiler to produce pretty pixels are catching up to me... The muscles above my outside fingers knuckles burn.

Is programming just a form of self flagellation?

Fuck I hate DRM...

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:33:50 GMT

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa468614.aspx#comparing_media_foundation_with_directshow__nzmp

One of my favourite comments on religeon from futurama

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:08:07 GMT

Intel Threading Library now open source

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:10:42 GMT

Threading Building Blocks 2.0

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/294797.htm

Enjoy...

New star wars game trailers

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:51:45 GMT

http://starwars.yahoo.com/

For those of us who like simms, check out the second video...

Siggraph 2007

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:09:39 GMT

I think I am now going to Siggraph. Mr PenguinPusher, SugarShabs, is there anything you need / want from it?

Mr Mocap

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:01:51 GMT

In my first installment of geek cred, I give you me in full mocap suit on the ILM mocap stage (I decided to blur out the back ground).

Not going to be able to go to Siggraph...

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:59:23 GMT

Sigh.

I used to joke about the Australian peso... but now I can't

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:39:51 GMT

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=1&from=AUD&to=USD&submit=Convert'

1 AU now buys 0.833 US. That is pretty fucked up :). That Bush thing is really working out for the Yanks huh?