I figured out what was messing up my old script when the image disappeared after the script ran. It didn't like the way I was setting the resolution of the output file. Now to figure out how to fix it (yes, I work on the weekends).
In other news:
1. I finished a deepness in the sky. Still one of my favorite sci fi books I think, but in the wrap up of the books the author seemed to go out of his way to introduce tension, and it felt kind of artificial when he would intentionally make you think a character was dead and then 1 minute later surprise they're alive!
2. Pleasantly surprised by the first Ray Kurzweil book I've read. It's called How to Create a Mind. The beginning of the book was a bit soft, and I thought it would just be political cheerleading, but he's getting into the technical details surprisingly well a hundred pages in. Recommended for anyone who might wonder: how does my brain work? Well, the book doesn't provide a definitive answer to that question but it seems to me it has some reasonable hypotheses backed up by some data, though it still hasn't answered the question: why can't computers do better? (it mentioned the brains parallel processing capabilities but then he completely ignored gpu's when talking about that..)
3. Think I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend's work time on trying to get my script working on tacc's maverick supercomputer.
In other news:
1. I finished a deepness in the sky. Still one of my favorite sci fi books I think, but in the wrap up of the books the author seemed to go out of his way to introduce tension, and it felt kind of artificial when he would intentionally make you think a character was dead and then 1 minute later surprise they're alive!
2. Pleasantly surprised by the first Ray Kurzweil book I've read. It's called How to Create a Mind. The beginning of the book was a bit soft, and I thought it would just be political cheerleading, but he's getting into the technical details surprisingly well a hundred pages in. Recommended for anyone who might wonder: how does my brain work? Well, the book doesn't provide a definitive answer to that question but it seems to me it has some reasonable hypotheses backed up by some data, though it still hasn't answered the question: why can't computers do better? (it mentioned the brains parallel processing capabilities but then he completely ignored gpu's when talking about that..)
3. Think I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend's work time on trying to get my script working on tacc's maverick supercomputer.