JRuby gets speedier in version 1.7

Source: InfoWorld

JRuby, which provides a version of the Ruby language to run atop the Java Virtual Machine, is being enhanced performancewise via an upgrade released as a preview this week, a developer who co-leads the JRuby project said on Thursday. Version 1.7 o ...
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PEP 420 is Accepted

Source: Hacker News

Namespace packages are a mechanism for splitting a single Python package across multiple directories on disk. In current Python versions, an algorithm to compute the packages __path__ must be formulated. With the enhancement propo ...
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THE CLEAR VIBRATION...Light Language with Jamye Price - May 25,2012

Source: BlogTalkRadio

JAMYE channels healing energies in the form of Light Language, which are ancient and universal language codes that your heart and infinite mind speak fluently. Light Language works like a stem cell. It is Dynam ...
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Big Data, The Solutions Define Its Future

Source: High Frequency Trading Review

I’ve often been asked to define the term Big Data. The reason the question even arises is due to the incredible explosion of hype. In the past 12-months alone the use of the term has increased over 1,200%. A Google search will net countless articles from ...
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Engelbart's Violin - chorded keyboards

Source: Hacker News

Computing pioneer Alan Kay tells us that a computer is “an instrument whose music is ideas.” This seems like a beautiful metaphor, until you realize that we have somehow ended up in a world where the profession of music ...
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In-depth: That's not normal - the performance of odd floats

Source: Gamasutra

[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday opinion piece, Valve Software's Bruce Dawson concludes his series on the floating point format by examining important values like denormals, NaNs, and infinites.] Denormals, NaNs, and infinities round ou ...
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