scientificcuriosity.blogspot.com
Scientific curiosity: A layman’s tutorial to the dark side I
http://scientificcuriosity.blogspot.com/2007/11/laymans-tutorial-to-dark-side-i.html
An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Friday, November 16, 2007. A layman’s tutorial to the dark side I. I am a condensed matter theorist. So, I know next to nothing about gravity or cosmology. But, this week, I attended a few Cosmology seminars and hence was motivated to write this post, which is intended to be a layman’s answer to the following question: WTF is dark matter and dark energy? This old article on dark energy. This Friday evening is the time to get it off my chest!
kohlerm.blogspot.com
Java Performance blog: Memory leaks are easy to find
http://kohlerm.blogspot.com/2009/02/memory-leaks-are-easy-to-find.html
Java and android performance analysis, Eclipse Memory Analyzer. Monday, February 16, 2009. Memory leaks are easy to find. Last time I talked about the dominator tree. And how it can be used to find the biggest objects in your heap easily. So what exactly is the dominator tree? An object A dominates. On an object B if all the paths to object B pass through object A. One could also say that A is the single object that is responsible for B still being there! Because of the transitivity of "dominated", the r...