Author Archives: ed
Using the SUNDIALS ODE package on Lion
The SUNDIALS project from Lawrence Livermore National Lab is a package of tools for solving systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and related problems, including MPI parallelization and GMRES-based step methods. I am testing it for use on large food … Continue reading
Pause Processing.js
Processing.js is great. But while working on a network visualization sketch (coming soon), I found I sometimes wanted to pause/restart its execution manually. (Note that there is a built-in pauseOnBlur directive that will only run the animation when the window … Continue reading
First steps with Python
First up, I’m trying to resume my habit, lost when I started grad school, of posting various things to this website, mostly experiences getting computer things to work. This is mostly for my own benefit—easy to find command-line instructions—with the … Continue reading
Open Access: The Sooner the Better
I was just browsing my Science Magazine RSS feed at home, and encountered this hilarious screen when I clicked to read the full article…
svn revert equivalent in git
I keep wanting to type git revert to roll back changes to the last committed version of something—that’s how you’d do it in Subversion—but this isn’t right. This works instead: git reset –hard HEAD
Classical Revolution Ann Arbor kickoff on Cinco de Mayo
I’m getting a first Classical Revolution chamber jam going next Tuesday in Ann Arbor! The first event will be at the Kerrytown Concert House, with other, non-concert house venues to come. If you’re interested in coming, come. If you’re interested … Continue reading
XgridLite for Leopard
The other day I released XgridLite for Leopard, something which should have happened about a year and a half ago. There are no substantial changes whatsoever, except that version 1.1 works on Leopard. However, it breaks Tiger support, so if … Continue reading
XgridLite: Dual Tiger/Leopard Functionality?
After confirmation that things seem to work for others on Leopard, I went through and tried to make sure it would work on Tiger again too. I don’t have time to set up a Tiger test box right now, so … Continue reading
XgridLite on Leopard, Test Version
After debugging some weirdness, I have a version of XgridLite that works on Leopard, I think. Brave testers, download this file: XgridLite.prefPane.zip Then decompress and drag the prefPane into your /Library/PreferencePanes or ~/Library/PreferencePanes Let me know how it goes! FYI, … Continue reading