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Mike Dunlavey
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BS Mechanical Engr.
PhD CS(AI)
CS Prof (4yr)
Numerous consulting jobs.
15 yr at http://www.pharsight.com
Published book on CS & several articles
4 kids, 2 grand
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P.S. The picture is a Beta-prime distribution. It shows the program speedup factors you can get if you see a problem twice in 5, 4, 3, and 2 samples.

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39 What are some good strategies for improving the serial performance of my code? Jul 6 '12
11 Profiling CFD code with Callgrind Apr 5 '12
8 What makes Fortran fast? Jul 12 '12
5 Why are Runge-Kutta and Euler's method so different? Jul 15 '15
4 Is providing approximate gradients to a gradient based optimizer useless? Jul 20 '16
4 How can I detect which among N bodies with different velocities will collide? Jul 18 '12
3 Is it possible to optimise this integration code so that it runs faster? Mar 26 '14
2 What algorithm for solving a set of stiff ODEs would be easiest to port to high precision floating point arithmetic? Jun 18 '12
2 Ways of visualizing event data in search of performance issues Sep 12 '12
2 Comparison of iteration methods: number of iterations vs. cpu time Jun 21 '13
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