{"id":287,"date":"2011-11-01T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-11-01T12:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:23:02","slug":"possible-parallel-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/2011\/11\/possible-parallel-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Parallel Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 1st: 12:01 PM<\/p>\n<p>I am considering two possibilities for my project: an n-dimensional parallel prefix scan OR a ruby library for pilot for my CIS 3090 project&#8230; I&#8217;ll list some pros and cons!<\/p>\n<p>n-dimensional parallel prefix scan:<br \/>\npros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>may be less work<\/li>\n<li>would be super cool<\/li>\n<li>could be really useful<\/li>\n<li>teaches me some math<\/li>\n<li>teaches me some algorithms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>really hard; I might not be able to do this<\/li>\n<li>could be a lot of &#8220;hidden work&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>risk doing this &#8220;wrong&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>might just not be very fast!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Ruby port of pilot library:<br \/>\npros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have to get to know pilot intimately<\/li>\n<li>easy to incrementalize<\/li>\n<li>open source project to maintain<\/li>\n<li>get way better at ruby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have to get to know pilot intimately<\/li>\n<li>probably a ridiculous amount of work<\/li>\n<li>not very &#8220;original&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 1st: 12:01 PM I am considering two possibilities for my project: an n-dimensional parallel prefix scan OR a ruby library for pilot for my CIS 3090 project&#8230; I&#8217;ll list some pros and cons! n-dimensional parallel prefix scan: pros: may be less work would be super cool could be really useful teaches me some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcarss.ca\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}