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  • Calculating Minimum Volume Bounding Box
    Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 12:31

    In my work I ended up needing to know the minimum volume bounding box (MVBB) of a given of points in 3d. This is also called the oriented bounding box (OBB). Finding the axis-aligned bounding box (AABB) is a simple task, however it can have a volume much larger than needed. Come to find out, finding the minimum volume bounding box is a very difficult problem with several techniques for finding it. However, I didn't find any useful code for finding the MVBB.

  • Binding a Lambda Function to an Object
    Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 15:36

     So I needed to bind a lambda function to an object. I've been writing code that needs to run faster than it currently does and I've traced some slow-downs to repeated comparisons that are really wasted and things don't change once the object is instantiated. For instance below is an example to show you how one might code something (note this is just an example, not actual code)

  • How to stop iPhone correcting "me" to "mr"
    Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 17:15

     So, my iPhone keeps auto-correcting "me" to "mr" which is really annoying. I finely got fed up and figured I had accidently taught the auto-correct to change me to mr. So I began to dig through my iPhone backup files figuring I could change things there are restore my phone to a backed-up state. Now I know that is an extremely geeky way to approach things, but hey, I'm a geek. And no there is not anyway to view the auto-correct dictionary on the iPhone. Well, after figuring out which file it actually was, it was a dead end.

  • Two New Must-Have Mac Programs: USBOverdrive X and DoubleCommand
    Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 12:50

    Today I started working the lab as opposed to from home which has made me use a new mac pro. I love mac, I own a MacBook and it works great. But mac desktops are a different question. The macbooks trackpad works great, has the sensitivity I want, I can move my finger from one side of the pad to the other and get all the way across the screen, perfect! On the mac pro with the might mouse its as slow as a dog and the accelration is driving me nuts. So I started off on a google trek to find a solution.

  • Things I've Learned Working With Embedded Systems
    Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 11:16

    So here will be a collection of things I've learned while working on an embedded system, so far just wiring it up and testing the chip. For those interested I'm using an ATMEGA8-16PI.

  • Information Gain in Discretized Timeseries
    Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 14:09

    I've been learning about information gain and playing around with it and its relation to timeseries data. For several reasons it is sometimes desirable to descretize timeseries data. For one it limits the number of unique values attainable by any time series, so for a finite lenght series there are only a finite number of possible different series.

  • Sync your iPhone/iPod to Multiple Computers
    Friday, February 6, 2009 - 14:39

    One thing that I don't like about the way iTunes handles things is thats not multi-computer friendly. I have my desktop running windows, my macbook and my iPhone. And I want the music on them to be the same, all three of them. Now before today, and really I should have googled this before today, I had always just been faced with the "Do you want to sync with this computer? Doing so will erase all the files currently on the device." message which I clearly didn't want to do. Then today, after finally googling the problem I came across the answer.

  • Block the 'Delete goes back' action in Firefox
    Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 19:00

    QUOTED FROM: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070511123925218
    Mon, May 14 2007 at 7:30AM PDT • Submitted by cdimara

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