You know, I hope this does not remain the only known public video of me. I think it may highlight what I get like when doing too many shots with too many Swedes! - Lara Fox
I'm quite fond of Yodlee, too. Been using it for years! It's a bit quirky, and definitely not "Web 2.0" <gack!> but super-super-super useful! - Adam Lasnik
i will check out yodlee, then. i've been using mint, but i'm not very impressed. - edythe
A multicore processor is like a... demolition party? Very odd analogy. I don't understand what VirtualLogix has to do with parallelization either. - Jim Norris
i agree. the first paragraph should just be thrown out. but it's interesting to see all these different ways of approaching multicore. another blogpost claims virtuallogix does both single chip sharing (like with simpler phones) and also virtualizes to take advantage of multiple cores... i don't see how those two things are connected either. at least it seems the virtualization would be quite inefficient. - Neha Narula
VirtualLogix just lets you run a different OS instance on each core, with some device sharing between them. This is not exciting from a systems point of view, it's just a way to use a multicore CPU if your OS and application are so hidebound that they don't support multiple processors at all. - ⓞnor
This Grand Central/OpenCL thing seems funny. You write your programs with little bytecode worker chunks, and it schedules them on the CPU and GPUs? Seems like that's all about making media processing run fast with a bunch of work, not making multicore programming tractable in general? But nobody (outside of Apple) seems to know what it really is about. - ⓞnor
"We can start to over-generalize by saying, 'My life is worthless. All I am is somebody who gets into a piece of metal and goes from one place to another.' " - Neha Narula
Heh! Yeah, I once did that for my home front door, too... well, reached towards my badge before chuckling to myself... and thinking, wow, it'd sure be neat if one RFID thingy (GBadge, Prius fob, etc.) would open *everything* :-) - Adam Lasnik
Someone needs to create a "Secrets to smart decisions when you graduate from Google." But I imagine it would mainly be devoted to how to cook your own food :) - Roshan Vyas
a few of the best things i learned after being away for 4 months were how to shop for groceries and how to make coffee :) - Neha Narula
