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March 2011

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Request for Comments

So far, the only people who have signed up to comment on my blog are spammers who are on lists of evil ^&*#%$&^#@% who spam on forums. I deleted them within a few hours of seeing their accounts. If someone reads any of this, even if this blog…

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Sculpture and Art

Adjustable Table Top

My garage floor isn’t level so I made this small adjustable table top for my sculpting table. Rolling ball sculptures need a level work area during construction if they are to work when they are finished. I used the base and the basic unadjustable table for years. This…

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Computers & Programming

SSE2 Parallelization

I finished my initial SSE2 project. It worked out well but I was hoping that it would work out better than just “well.” The algorithm I needed to speed up is called the Smith-Waterman algorithm. In reality, Smith and Waterman modified a type of algorithm called a dynamic…

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Sculpture and Art

Green and White RBS

I just finished this rolling ball sculpture. It’s about 18″ tall: Another larger view. Click on the image to see the larger version: lick this one to see a closeup of part of the sculpture:

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