Tag: C++
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Further thoughts on Forth (and Riscyforth in particular) and Life
It’s now two years since I began my Riscyforth project of writing a Forth for RISC-V single board computers. But it wasn’t until yesterday that I wrote my first serious/useful (if you like this sort of thing) program for it, a version of Conway’s Game of Life. (This program wasn’t as long as the unit…
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This summer’s to-do list
It’s easier to produce this list than it is fo do them, but producing the list is also a means of holding myself to account: Complete the code to translate a string into an IEEE754 floating point number in Riscyforth: I am now pretty clear in my own head what the algorithmic steps to do…
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What computer output is supposed to look like
This month is the 41st anniversary of me coming face-to-face with a “micro-computer” for the first time – in WH Smith’s in Brent Cross. I am not truly sure how I knew what I was looking at (beyond I suppose the shop’s own signage) – because at that time not even “The Mighty Micro” –…
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Flirting with disaster
A week ago, in the middle of the Christmas holidays, I contemplated how I could tie all the bits I had written for my PhD thesis into a coherently and seamlessly argued complete first draft. I even bought a book about completing a PhD, In the end I decided I needed to add in one…
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Getting a job
I have, essentially, two sets of skills and experience. One is as a political campaigner and communicator. I did well out of that for a while and more than that, did some things I am proud of and feel really privileged to have had a chance to be part of. But it’s fair to say…
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Strange reviews on Amazon
Messing about with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) continues to take up some of my time (in case my supervisor reads this – I also have a simulation of a many core system running on the university’s computer atm). I started my research here with a much cited, but really well-out-0f-date book – Practical Neural Network Recipes…
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Free software to chop up your JPEGs
As a public service announcement – if you need some software (on Linux but may well compile and run on other systems if they support Qt) to chop a big JPEG up into smaller files, I have written this (in my case to support building a test set for a neural network). It’s at https://github.com/mcmenaminadrian/TestSetCreator and…
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Back to neural networks
Neural networks have fascinated me for a long time, though I’ve never had much luck applying them. Back in the early and mid 1990s the UK’s trade and industry department ran a public promotional programme to industry about NNs and I signed up, I even bought a book about how to build them in C++…
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So, dear reader, I wrote a Gauss-Jordan solver
Been a while… …Anyway: I am now designing (PhD related) a simulation of a NoC system and I need to have it run some code – so I thought I’d look at code to solve a system of linear equations and sought to build the same using Gauss-Jordan elimination. It proved to be a lot…
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Struggling
Been a while since I’ve written here – been avoiding writing about politics, which has obviously not been so great for me in the last couple of weeks… but now I have something else to ruminate on. I have reached a milestone, or perhaps basecamp, in my PhD research: having a model for memory management…
cartesian product ... stuff about computing mostly 