Friday, 27 August 2010

Keyboard shortcut goodness

Am currently stuck with the misery that is using word to prepare a document, so found this most beneficial:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938

Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Symbolic algebra, for free, in Python

Sympy - like the best bits of derive but in a proper programming language, and free:

http://code.google.com/p/sympy/

Nice :o)

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Experiments with chocolate...

But can you measure the wavelength?

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/leftover-valentines-chocolate-use-it-to-measure-the-speed-of-light/

Monday, 26 October 2009

N-body for free

Back in the day I wrote N-body code based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm. At the time you could get a GRAPE board to do the sums very fast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Pipe

Now it comes "free" in an iMac with a halfway decent graphic card:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/samplecode/OpenCL_NBody_Simulation_Example/index.html


Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Too much spare time?

Try

http://neverball.org/

to soak it up. I'm busy trying not to.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

And I thought that they were taking the ....

http://www.phenix-online.org/documentation/ligand_identification.htm

Says it will test 200 common ligands. Awesome!

Friday, 14 August 2009

So here's where the latest CCTBX can be found

Includes loads of neat stuff, source down at the bottom...

http://cci.lbl.gov/cctbx_build/all.html