I was watching a series of piped processes execute, and then I noticed that bzcat, route_btoa, and my python process, which were all chained up in a pipe together, were all executing on separate processors. This is important! This means something! I just wrote parallel code with an almost perfect speedup BY ACCIDENT!
Archives for August 2005
learning
Another Socratic Dialogue in the form of an IM cut-and-paste: Peter New internet startup idea – build AND HOST (all caps == the new part) an e-learning tool that sucks less than Blackboard Jesse sounds good Peter Everyone I know hates Blackboard Peter And there’s a very natural revenue model if you are hosting it [...]
