I managed to get a score of 35 in the engine yard programming contest. Which is fairly respectable.

I'm trying to decide if its worth my time to go back through and figure out how to bump my program's performance up from ~1M permutations/sec/core up to something respectable.

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Saturday there are Power Tool drag races in Georgetown.

*run static analysis*

Profiler: "Hey, Skipper! You've got a bunch of stall penalties in your function."

Me: "Really, where?"

Profiler: "In your function, silly! I bet that function would run much faster without all the stalling."

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Whoops.


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Assembly of the tesla turbine is coming along (assuming I haven't screwed up the air vents too badly).

Anyone know how to get rid of powdered aluminum? I seem to have accidentally covered myself with glitter.

So far I've gotten many more birthday wishes from humans than automated services (yay)

So, this Past year I: