Weekend Reading

by Codewiz51 July 03, 2010 07:54

Grigori Perelman

Interesting Mathematician.

Obama announces $2 billion for solar power

Once again, we're trying to commericialize an R & D project.  The economics aren't there yet.  Throwing tax dollars at the problem won't change the economics.  We keep comparing the problem to the discovery of how to transmit and display video signals (the TV).  The basic problems and the driving forces for spending money on solar power are different from the long term success of the TV.

Fox News Poll: Most Think BP, Government Could Do More on Oil Spill

I like Fox news, but this is stupid.

Illinois and California: State Basket Cases

These liberal socialist states show how government largess and low taxes may not be the way to go.  How about we try small government and low taxes?

Will Austerity Be The Catalyst For War?

Interesting thesis from SocGen, a large French bank.

SciPy and NumPy for .NET

This is good news.  Unfortunately, I just cannot get into Python.  I love C++ too much.

Pic of the Day 6/30/2010; Children and hookers sharing space

Brian Bates exposes a fact of life in Oklahoma Ctiy.  When do we wake up about this issue?

 

Comments

7/4/2010 12:55:15 PM #

As I understand it, part of the effort to make SciPy available to .NET involves refactoring the underlying C code to make it callable from the outside.  So you could use SciPy without having to write Python.  Also, you might prototype something from Python then move it to C++ for efficiency and be able to reproduce your results because you're using the same core libraries.

John Cook United States

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