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Project Log: First entry
Intro It was time. This is my “Project’s Captain’s Log”. “Day 1” was in fact yesterday. Today was the first day in which I moved from “thinking” to “implementing” the project. First day, first issues. Today I focused on setting up the needed “base environment” for me to write more easily my future report (i.e.…
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When to parallelize and when not to
Intro I have finally delivered my last term paper for this year (one last year to go). It was about simulating traffic using graphs, onsets of congestion and the likes. Once again, the smallest graph was of order 4000+, and once again I had to work with MonteCarlo approach on 1000+ time steps for each…
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Learning Cybernetics: Working on Ashby’s Transformation Matrices
Intro I really do not have that much spare time, but I also really wanted to learn more about “Cybernetics”. So I bought (yet another) book, a classic in this case (I think it was first edited in 1956): “An Introduction to Cybernetics”, by W. Ross Ashby (“Ashby” from now on for short). So far,…