Turkey Dinners and Cache Conscious Programming

Have you ever tried baking a pizza in an oven at an eighth the recommended temperature? The pizza will in fact never be fully cooked, never achieving a high enough temperature to melt the cheese, crisp the bread, etc. In many ways, crafting programs are similar to baking a pizza. It requires some finesse and skill […]

Saint Patrick

To celebrate Saint Patrick’s day March 17th 2014, here is the history of Saint Patrick: Early Life Saint patrick was born to wealthy Roman British born family some time in the late fourth or perhaps early fifth century. His father was a deacon, and grandfather was a priest. According to The “Confessio” of Saint Patrick at sixteen […]

Newtons Method and Fractals

The Newton Method I kind of think of it as a song, “you put your P(z) in, you take your P'(z) out, you minus all from Zn and you get your Zn+1 out.” Alright, that might be a weak attempt to make an equation into song. Here’s the Newton Method equation (from Wikipedia): Each time […]