Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mantle Open source GPU engine

[Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:49:24PM +0000, James wrote:
> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > > computer gaming (yawn)...
> 
> "The Kalman filter operates recursively on streams of noisy input data to
> produce a statistically optimal estimate of the underlying system state." [1]
> 
> (sounds like a database admin's dream tool, huh?)  
> clean usage from "dirty/corrupted data"   (think NSA, DOD etc etc).
> 
> You like video on the Net?  The Kalman Filter is one of the chief
> mathmatical advances in the field of video and graphics, among a myriad of
> other applications. The Kalman filter is unknown to most "digital
> mathmaticians" and application programers, but these days they rarely
> perform seraching or sorting without the benefits of Kalman Filters running
> on hardware (bare metal)...... 
> 
> The Kalman Filter is but one of the "bare metal Algorithms" that will
> benefit by orders of magnitude with true bare metal access to the GPU.
> [2]
> 
> If you really want to learn about where hardware meets software,
> read up on this man : Donald Knuth.   Most programmers has never
> heard of him, let alone comprehend his "body of work".
> 
> 
> hth,
> James
> 
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
> 
> [2]
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6121397&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6121397

Hi James,

Sorry for such a terse, if not rude, response. You did, however, get the
meaning and respond accordingly. ;)

I'm familiar with Donald Knuth The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, etc. And
now that you've delved into some of the better reasons, I'm all ears.

Still, I would have highly chastised someone calling me about this in the
middle of the night. Even if it were one of my friends 13 time zones away. ;)

Cheers,
Bruce
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