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wisesage5001on Python: Making ctypes Structures Beautiful

One thing I really like about the struct module's format string is the ability to easily specify the endian-ness of the data. How does newstruct (or the underlying ctypes) handle endian-ness (if at all)?

wisesage5001on Turn Your Smartphone Into A Robot

I don't see what they need $32,000 for. There was another robot project on Kickstarter a while back that was successfully funded (the Bilibot: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/147564168/bilibot-an-aff... ) for a lot less.

The hardware required to prototype the Bilibot is a lot more expensive than to prototype one of these Romos, so I don't get what they need 6 times the funding of the Bilibot project for. $78 per Romo seems fine, but the overall goal seems a bit high.

wisesage5001on NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again—and Faces a Backlash

Do you have any sources for the claim that universities typically have all rights to a student's papers? I can say for certain that I never signed any intellectual property agreement with the university I attended and would expect to retain all rights to any work I completed there as a student. The work I created did have an implied license allowing for grading the papers and such, but any use beyond that would upset me unless I the university had obtained my permission.

wisesage5001on Poll: What do you find buying online really hard or annoying?

I used http://www.padmapper.com/ when finding an apartment a few months ago. It's basically a Craigslist/Apartments.com/etc aggregator that puts each listing at its approximate location. Super useful, especially if you are moving to an unfamiliar city.

wisesage5001on An easy way to boost a paper's citations: Cite and you shall be cited

Totally agree. Correlation does not imply causation.

wisesage5001on Let me see your papers, let me see your source

Reminds me of my own experience doing research in mobile robotics. It basically followed a cycle described pretty well by the the comic here: http://www.willowgarage.com/sites/default/files/blog/201004/...

wisesage5001on PyCon 2010 Talks

Did I miss seeing it listed or is the Unladen Swallow talk not up yet?

wisesage5001on Tuning TCP parameters for the 21st century

RTO stands for "Retransmissin Timeout" and is the length of time the sender waits for a packet to be ACK'd. (Source: http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/TCP-10.htm)

wisesage5001on Unladen Swallow 2009Q3 Released with LLVM optimized Python

From their benchmarks rietveld: $ ./perf.py -r -b rietveld --args "-j always," --track_memory ../q2/python ../q3/python Mem max: 575116.000 -> 55952.000: 927.87% smaller

This 930% basically means that 2009Q3 can use as little as ~1/10 of the memory of 2009Q2.

wisesage5001on C−−: a portable assembly language designed by Simon Peyton Jones et al.

How does this compare to LLVM?