Have you ever felt the need to perform set theoretic operations on types? Not really? Me neither, but I thought it’s a fun thing to try out. So, if you ever feel the need of using type sets, C++11 makes…
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I have been toying around with C++11 in the last days, finding a lot of the new features very helpful. Especially rediscovering concepts from typed functional programming languages is very delightful. So far variadic templates and the std::tuple type got…
Recently I had to use a sparse linear system solver and after trying several libraries I decided to use SuperLU. It was rather easy to compile on Ubuntu 10.04 and also the SuperLU support in Eigen is quite useful (although…
I found a site which will feed me for a long time with desktop backgrounds. I’m changing them quite often but I don’t like distracting patterns or photographs with a lot of details. Most times it took me way to…
When I see what people do with Lego I feel a little bit sad that I sold me and my brothers Lego boxes half a year ago. But then it also seems to be very time consuming as I remember…
Recently I wrote (quickly hacked together) a Safari extension that allows to import articles into your mendeley account using a button in the Safari toolbar. There is the same problem as with the bookmark, that it doesn’t behave really well…
I just found this beautiful wallpaper titled ‘The Blind Watchmaker’: Wallpaper at DeviantArt
I’m using Linux at university and Mac OS X at home. I try to maintain a similar workflow on both platforms and it took me some time to get a working SyncTeX + Emacs with AUCTeX setup for both systems….