Posts tagged optimization
Optimization
Jan 6th
I needed to optimize a function for my neural network. How hard could it be? It’s only one function, and it’s <5 lines at that…
After spawning a huge thread, I’m left to wonder: why didn’t I continue learning ML after my functional languages class? Blargh!
Benchmarks after the break… More >
Windows XP Registry Hacks
Sep 25th
I finally graduate in about 2 months. However, much to my dismay, I have to finish my social volunteer work. No, I didn’t do anything weird – it’s just a graduation requisite. I’ve been working at my university’s computer division, so I’ve had to format anywhere between 4 and 15 laptops every day. Yes. Every. Single. Day.
Unfortunately, most of the laptops are Dell C610s – in other words, 1GHz, 256MB RAM and they’re running Windows XP. You can probably tell that it’s very fun to optimize each system. (I’m proud of myself, they run pretty nicely for the low specs they’re sporting…)
With this in mind, I decided to code a .NET 3.5 application (free, of course) that does the job for me and also manages to be fully extensible through the use of a text-based hack database.
If you’re interested in downloading it, give it a go here. Read more if you’re interested in some of the example hacks, as well as the database specification.