In my PDC Day 3 post I mentioned how impressed I was with the Parallel Computing session. Ryan, Richard, and I are still talking about some of the stuff we saw and learned in that session. Daniel was kind enough to mention in the comments that the video from his PDC talk is now online. If you weren’t able to attend PDC or you didn’t make it to the session this is a must see video!
I also noticed on Daniel’s blog that he posted links to a video of an interview he did about parallelism at Tech Ed EMEA . This interview is a nice compliment to the PDC session as it reiterates some of the important points of parallel computing such as what parallelism is (as opposed to just multi-threading) and why it’s so critical to understand how to leverage the power of multiple cores today given the prospect that 32+ core machines will be standard in the not too distant future.
It’s inevitable that parallelism will become a critical aspect of software development in the future and it’s nice to see Microsoft doing some great work in this area bringing such a vital (and complex) technology to the mainstream.
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In my previous DeScramble post I did an overview of the program’s UI. Now it’s time to see a video of the program in action!
However, I want to make a few things clear before you watch the video below.
- I have never used this program in any Scramble Live game with the exception of Cheater’s Ball. All the regulars in Cheater’s Ball know I have this program and have seen it in action.
- I have never used this program in any Scramble match. Just look at my record and that becomes obvious. Plus, all the people I play matches with know I have the program so it wouldn’t really fool anyone. Besides, actually playing the game with people is more fun.
- I wrote the program because it was an interesting challenge to me – My goal was not to make people think I am a better Scramble player than I am.
- After writing this program and watching it run against some of the better players in the game I have a whole new respect for how good those people really are. The speed at which they are able to find words on the board and enter them in is amazing!
So with that said, here is a short demo of DeScramble in action:
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As promised in my previous post here is a video of SecondLight that was demoed yesterday during the MS Research keynote.
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