I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.[…]
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Tag: Scientific Computing
Programming Language Index – version 2013
A couple of years ago I had a look at the state of the TIOBE index that ranks the most popular programming languages. So has C# finally dethrone C++ as THE language of the year?[…]
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Ada Lovelace – Sci-advent – Day 9
Ada Lovelace. Painting by Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793–1872) Ada Augusta Byron, Countess of Lovelace, was the daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. She studied mathematics at the University of London with Charles Babbage, whose analytical engines[…]
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MATLAB for mac in Mountain Lion without X11
Well, I have now made the move to Mountain Lion and for a bit it did look quite good, until I had the nerve of trying to start MATLAB. Now, I must admit that the[…]
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