Prime numbers and Pell equation

February 10th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

Before leaving for my vacation,here are two small Python libraries I wrote that may help you if you want to participate to Project Euler:

primes.py: fast prime number generation and integer factorization
pell.py: find solutions pairs to Pell diophantine equation x2-Dy2=1

Getting rid of RSS slammers

October 12th, 2005 by Samuel Tardieu

A few weeks ago, I noticed that some people were getting my RSS feed once every minute. The load on the WWW server was already high and I found a much cheaper solution on my side: redirect them to the RSScache service through an Apache redirection.
This morning, I read that Daniel Glazman [had the same […]

blenderdist

August 21st, 2005 by Samuel Tardieu

When doing some heavy 3D rendering with Blender, I realized that one of my animation was going to take 53 hours to render. Existing distributed rendering systems such as DrQueue were fine but require that some software other than Blender or basic interpreters (such as Python or Perl) is installed on the contributing machines.
So I […]


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