Jamie J Quinn
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Jun 8, 2017
Mr. Julia
Going on my theme of wonderfully fractal images, I wrote a little simulation to introduce myself to webGL. Go have a wee play about with it here. The Maths You...
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Jun 1, 2017
Regularly Expressional Fractalations
There’s something about fractals that humans find fascinating. They manage to contain a beautiful impression of infinity despite being not very difficult to create. These fractals have been produced by...
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May 19, 2017
How I lost a Day to OpenMPI Being Mental
So at Glasgow Uni we have this little cluster for the maths department which happens to including about ten machines set up to work with torque (a job scheduling system)....
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May 19, 2017
Some Tips on Making Simulations Bug Resistant
Having written and used a decent number of simulations over the past few years I’ve come to understand that preventing bugs in scientific software is just a wee bit different...
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Feb 14, 2017
Parallelising Wondrous Numbers in C++
The Collatz conjecture, named for Lothar Collatz, goes as follows. Take any positive integer \(n\). If \(n\) is even, half it, or if it’s odd, multiply it by three and...
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Jan 29, 2017
The Making of the Fiddle Synth - Part 1
My idea for a violin synthesizer came about from a Lau concert I recently went to. Before the concert there were a few different workshops, one of which was a...
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Apr 9, 2016
Setting Up This Site
First there was a purely html site. I was about eleven. Then, there was the Wordpress blog (or maybe Blogger). I was probably about thirteen. After that came the social...
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