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Jan 5, 2016

My View on Civil Society

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the “militia” movements and the comparison to the police response in Ferguson, MO. I’m sure there are a lot of other comparisons to make, but I was living in St. Louis, MO at the time so this one is personal for me. Why did the government respond…

Jonathan Beard

Jan 4, 2016

Streaming with RaftLib

So I got bored and built a streaming run-time for C++. Well, not quite, I built one so I could do my thesis on mathematical modeling of streaming systems. Then again, that’s not entirely true either. I hate the state of parallel programming as it sits today. There are dozens of…

Jonathan Beard

Jan 4, 2016

Move Mountains, One Rock at a Time

Ever had this great big idea, but didn’t know how to start? How about something that seemed so huge that you can’t seem to get any traction towards your goal? This happens all the time, you don’t have to panic. What I’m going to tell you is a tried and true approach, I…

Jonathan Beard

Jan 1, 2016

My crazy idea

I’m going to try something new, instead of doing research in a vacuum between papers, I’m going to try blogging it (well, the non-commercial/patentable stuff at least). What works, what doesn’t, and maybe I’ll get some interesting feedback in between. Here’s one of my current projects, starting with…