http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb Approximity: smart stuff en-us http://www.approximity.com/ http://www.approximity.com/public/images/apxBlue_s.png http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Ruby/FasterDateTime.rdoc home_run is an implementation of ruby&#8217;s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than the version in the standard library, while being almost completely compatible. <p> <a href="http://github.com/jeremyevans/home_run">github.com/jeremyevans/home_run</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Gold/fortune_gets_it_wrong.rdoc Fortune is claiming that gold is in a bubble? We don&#8217;t think so. <p> <a href="http://gold.approximity.com/Fortune_gets_it_wrong_on_gold.htm">gold.approximity.com/Fortune_gets_it_wrong_on_gold.htm</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Linux/Duplicity.rdoc highly recommended <a href="http://duplicity.nongnu.org/">duplicity.nongnu.org/</a> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/R/R2010.rdoc Complete list of abstracts and slides <a href="http://user2010.org/abstracts/AbstractsByAuthor.html">user2010.org/abstracts/AbstractsByAuthor.html</a> <p> Some videos: <a href="http://www.vcasmo.com/user/drewconway">www.vcasmo.com/user/drewconway</a> </p> <p> From Google-protobuffers, to extreme values to direct marketing data to soecial networking to large parallel problems, etc. .. </p> <p> As usual the R-Journal (Volume 2/1, June 2010), has some good stuff, too. <a href="http://journal.r-project.org/current.html">journal.r-project.org/current.html</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Network/Latency.rdoc Good talk. <p> <a href="http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/07/13/velocity-tcp-and-the-lower-bound-of-web-performance/">www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/07/13/velocity-tcp-and-the-lower-bound-of-web-performance/</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Search/DuckDuckGo.rdoc There are many search-engines out there, but next to google few are worth using .. <a href="http://duckduckgo.com">duckduckgo.com</a> or <a href="http://dukgo.com">dukgo.com</a> for short is actually worth your time. http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Gold/updatedGoldcharts7.rdoc We have added a tremendous amount of new charts and data recently, incl. Yen/Yen-Gold, Yuan/Yuan-Gold, WTI Crude Oil, U.S. GDP, and much more. <p> <a href="http://gold.approximity.com">gold.approximity.com</a> </p> <p> New chart of the month, showing the slowly developing bull market in gold: <a href="http://gold.approximity.com/gold_charts.html">gold.approximity.com/gold_charts.html</a> </p> <p> Make sure you check out this graph: DJIA during the 1987 crash <a href="http://gold.approximity.com/1987/DJIA.html">gold.approximity.com/1987/DJIA.html</a> </p> <p> <img src="http://gold.approximity.com/1987/DJIA.png"> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/R/R_GPU.rdoc gputools uses CULA to give you a GPU enabled fastICA. Very impressive .. speeds up R :-). <p> <a href="http://brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/brainarray/Rgpgpu/">brainarray.mbni.med.umich.edu/brainarray/Rgpgpu/</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Gold/armstrong.rdoc New impressive articles by Martin Armstrong, definitely worth reading. <p> <a href="http://www.martinarmstrong.org/economic_projections.htm">www.martinarmstrong.org/economic_projections.htm</a> </p> http://www.approximity.com/cgi-bin/blogtariAgile/index.rb/Gold/ClarkAndDaveOnEurope.rdoc enjoy the video! <p> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/20/2905304.htm">www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/20/2905304.htm</a> </p>