Martin Remy

  • Book Review: What Would Google Do?

    I expect one of two things from a business book: an eye-opening new perspective that I would never have stumbled on myself, or a concise summary of insights that might occur to me if I had more free time to ruminate on the subject and lots of yellow pads and pens with me at all… Read more ⇢

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  • Girls on the Run

    We went to an auction event for Girls on the Run Denver last night.  They do great work, check them out.  They’ve grown from 90 girls in the program in 2005 to over 900 girls this year. Girls on the Run® (GOTR) of the Rockies uses the power of running to change the way girls see themselves and… Read more ⇢

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  • The Dream: Physical books printed on the spot (and recycled on the spot)

    In Twitter this morning, @tatteredcover is asking how many people are moving from paper books to electronic ones.  I own a Kindle, but about 60% of my book buying is still paper.  I love the bookstore experience, and there’s nothing like thumbing through a paper book.  But my house is overflowing with the damn things.… Read more ⇢

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  • Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

    Well, it doesn’t run in the browser, but it keeps itself to a single directory and runs from the command line, which is the next best thing.  The GIMPS project has been around since 1996 and harnesses the “power of 1000’s of small computers like yours” to discover new Mersenne primes, which are primes of… Read more ⇢

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  • Casual Grid Computing in the Browser?

    Let’s say you just got a brand spanking new 8-core computer.  Let’s also say you can’t run Mathematica because Wolfram’s registration process sucks so much (seriously, it’s the worst I’ve ever seen, and I always end up calling them on the PHONE to register).  Now you’re thinking what to do with all those cycles that… Read more ⇢

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