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 […]
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 […]
Process synchronization refers to the idea that multiple process can manipulate a single portion of data. Take for example a pthread, which you can think of as a single core on your computer. That core has access to all of the data stored in RAM, however you may have multiple cores running. What happens if […]