SuperSteve3D

“I’ve tallied up all your favorites, and allowed people to vote for multiple news readers if they used them that way. The top vote-getter was Google Reader , followed by Sage for the Firefox browser. Why did Google Reader win out? Many folks mentioned the ease of use, the simple interface, and the fact that it’s web-based so it’s accessible from any Internet-connected computer.”

Well kids, its goodnight to Sage as my RSS reader. I use Google Reader exclusively now.. farewell old friend..

 

An interesting quote from Kramnik on the Fritz Man vs Machine match. I wonder how true it will be, time will tell…

“The day will come when we will no longer have a chance against computers. If I indeed manage to beat Fritz in this match it will probably be the last time that a human being wins against a computer.” – Vladimir Kramnik

 

“Revolution is a word that’s often thrown around with little thought in high tech circles, but this one looks real. Wired News has a comprehensive report on computer scientists’ efforts to adapt graphics processors for high performance computing. The goal for these Nvidia and ATI chips is to tackle non-graphics related number crunching for complex scientific calculations. Nvidia announced this week along with its new wicked fast GeForce 8800 release the first C-Compiler environment for the GPU; Wired reports that ATI is planning to release at lease some of its proprietary code to the public domain to spur non-graphics related development of its technology. Meanwhile, lab results are showing some amazing comparisons between CPU and GPU performance. Stanford’s distributed computing project Foldering@Home launched a GPU beta last month that is now publishing data putting donated GPU performance at 20-40 times the efficiency of donated CPU performance.”

 

Well, I finally took the plunge. After what seems like forever, I’ve finally upgraded from 1.5.1.3 to 2.0.5 of wordpress. So far so good, it seems like I’ve managed to work out all the kinks of nowl

 

New chess duel Man vs Machine

At the end of November this year classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik will take up the challenge of facing a computer program in a six-game match, to be held in the very prestigious Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonn, Germany. Kramnik stands to win one million US dollars if he beats the opponent, Deep Fritz.