Tax time is approaching and this year, like every year, I know plenty of people excited about receiving a tax return and discussing the exciting purchases they plan on making with this perceived windfall.
Each year I find myself biting my tongue and restraining myself from stating a true but unpopular fact: getting a tax return is not a good thing and is in fact the worst financial outcome of tax season.
Xilinx recently released their new Vitis tool, which aims to ease the process of accelerating high-level algorithms in applications in an FPGA. It is an ambitious tool with a lot of potential. This guide will help you get started.
As the Internet continues to grow and age, we are seeing more and more of a phenomenon called “link rot”. Link rot is the all-too-familiar experience of returning to a bookmark or link only to find that it's no longer maintained, been taken down, or even changed to something else. What can we do about this?
In 2019, I read 27 books. This was less than last year's 40 and is not an overly impressive quantity for any serious reader, yet I'm happy with both the amount and the content that I read this year. Below, I'll give a brief summary of my favorites.
I use Markdown a lot and it is common to have code blocks within a Markdown file that look something like this:
This is a code block:
```bash
echo "Hello, world!"
```
One of the “killer features” of Emacs’ Org mode is its ability to evaluate blocks of code from within the editing environment. I always appreciated this feature about Org mode which got me to thinking about implementing something similar in Vim.
This post was inspired by the tool um.
I decided to try my hand at making my own lightweight implementation using just
a shell function. I decided to name my tool ual as a nod to the fact that it
complements man.
This post contains a step-by-step walk through on booting Linux on Xilinx's ZCU102 MPSoC evaluation board.
The “Birthday Problem” is a classic in introductory probability theory, and it never fails to impress the newly initiated. The problem goes like this:
How many people do you need to have in one room for the probability that at least 2 people in that room share a birthday to be 50%?
The answer may surprise you. Before we get to the answer though, let's go real briefly into the math behind it.
Update (6/18/2019): Since writing this post I have released a tool called pushbroom that should make all of this easier. If you have Homebrew installed simply run
brew install gpanders/tap/pushbroom
from the Terminal. Follow the instructions on the screen to setup the configuration file and start the pushbroom service.