Running from the past, by Dan Piponi: “a really beautiful technique that alows you to sample from the infinite limit of a probability distribution without needing an infinite number of operations.”

Rectangular Full Packed Format for Cholesky’s Algorithm: Factorization, Solution and Inversion (2009), by Fred G. Gustavson, Jerzy Wasniewski, Jack J. Dongarra, and Julien Langou. “We combine the good features of packed and full storage using RFPF to obtain high performance via using Level 3 BLAS as RFPF is a standard full format representation. Also, RFPF requires exactly the same minimal storage as packed format.”

TinyEMU by Fabrice Bellard now supports RV128IMAFDQC.

Fifty Shades of J, a series of essays by Norman Thomson.

HowTo: Create your own time zone, by Joey Hess.