Re: REMINDER: October tech meeting tonight

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:29:28AM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:01:04AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > The speakers are at least myself and Mike Toren.
> 
> The topic of my lightning talk tonight is calling unsupported system calls
> in Perl with the syscall() function.  This is something I've been wanting to
> play with for a while now, and giving a lightning talk seemed like a good
> opportunity.
> 
> There were a few slides I had to cut from the presentation to keep it under
> five minutes, but if we have some time to fill I can go over them at the end
> briefly.

I'm getting the feeling that the time limit won't be much of an issue
tonight. :)

My topic is "How to find the median in O(n) time".  I'm probably over
5 minutes, too.  If people are interested, I can do a followup to that
on "choosing a good pivot".  That will probably take about 15 minutes,
and will need a white board.  Neither of these talks have very much to
do with Perl, though they are both quite clever algorithms.

Walt

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