NVIDIA CUDA Fast Fourier Transform library (cuFFT)

The NVIDIA CUDA Fast Fourier Transform library (cuFFT) provides a simple interface for computing FFTs up to 10x faster.  By using hundreds of processor cores inside NVIDIA GPUs, cuFFT delivers the floating‐point performance of a GPU without having to develop your own custom GPU FFT implementation.
Widely used in applications ranging from computational physics to image processing and general signal processing, the Fast Fourier Transform is an efficient algorithm for computing discrete Fourier transforms of complex or real‐valued data sets.  cuFFT uses algorithms based on the well-known Cooley-Tukey and Bluestein algorithms, so you can be confident that you’re getting accurate results faster than ever.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cufft

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Internet top-level domains

This list of Internet top-level domain extensions contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. The official list of all top-level domains is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) at Root Zone Database.^[1] IANA also oversees the approval process for new proposed top-level domains. As of October 2016, the root domain contains 1503 top-level domains,^[2] while a few have been retired and are no longer functional.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains 

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db 

File Extensions

Common Windows file extensions

Windows file names have two parts; the file's name, then a period followed by the extension (suffix). The extension is a three- or four-letter abbreviation that signifies the file type. For example, in letter.docx the filename is letter and the extension is docx. Extensions are important because they tell your computer what icon to use for the file, and what application can open the file. For example, the doc extension tells your computer that the file is a Microsoft Word file.
If you want to open a MAC OS X file in Windows, you may need to add the extension to a MAC OS X file name so Windows can recognize it. For example, if you have a Word 6 MAC OS X document named letter that you want to open in Windows, you need to rename the file letter.docx so that Word in Windows will recognize and open the file.



http://it.nmu.edu/docs/common-windows-file-extensions

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How an army of vulnerable gadgets took down the web today

SAN FRANCISCO — Multiple waves of online attacks blocked many major websites Friday, at times making it impossible for users on the East Coast to access Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Tumblr, Reddit and other sites.
The cause was a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against New Hampshire-based Internet performance company Dyn. The attacks made it difficult for users to access to many popular sites beginning at 7:10 a.m. ET and continued throughout the day.

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dSRH8_vwWcCg5UMG04LicOKxawWYM&authuser=0&topic=h

Haim Saban

Haim Saban, the billionaire chairman of Univision Communications, America’s largest Spanish-language media company, flew to Jerusalem in his private jet on Sept. 29 to attend the funeral of his friend Shimon Peres, Israel’s former prime minister. It was an event attended by numerous world leaders. Saban gave one of them a lift: former U.S. President Bill Clinton. In Saban’s telling, it wasn’t a big deal. “I called and asked, ‘Are you going to go?’ ” he says, recalling his conversation with Clinton. “He said, ‘Yeah, I’m going.’ I said, ‘I’m going, too. Do you need a ride?’ ” So Saban picked up Clinton and his entourage at a small airport in Teterboro, N.J.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-10-13/-10-million-says-hillary-wins

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Sloan Foudation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City.
Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economic performance. more...

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http://www.sloan.org/ 

Confit

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not to be confused with comfit.

For the South African jam, see konfyt.

Confit (French, pronounced [kɔ̃fi] or in English "con-fee") comes from the French word confire which means literally "to preserve",^[1][2] a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.^[1]
Confit as a cooking term describes when food is cooked in grease, oil or sugar water (syrup), at a lower temperature — as opposed to deep frying. While deep frying typically takes place at temperatures of 325–450 °F (163–232 °C), confit preparations are done much lower—an oil temperature of around 200 °F (93 °C), sometimes even cooler. The term is usually used in modern cuisine to mean long slow cooking in oil or fat at low temperatures, many having no element of preservation such as dishes like confit potatoes.
In meat cooking this requires the meat to be salted as part of the preservation process. After salting and cooking in the fat, sealed and stored in a cool, dark place, confit can last for several months or years. Confit is one of the oldest ways to preserve food,^{[citation needed]} and is a specialty of southwestern France.

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Bun Cha

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http://site.people.com/food/anthony-bourdain-president-barack-obama-vietnam-parts-unknown/


Bún chả is a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork and noodle, which is thought to have originated from Hanoi, Vietnam.^[1] Bun cha is served with grilled fatty pork (chả) over a plate of white rice noodle (bún) and herbs with a side dish of dipping sauce. The dish was described in 1959 by Vietnamese food writer Vu Bang (1913–1984) who described Hanoi as a town "transfixed by bún chả." Hanoi’s first bún chả restaurant was on Gia Ngư, Hoàn Kiếm District, in Hanoi's Old Quarter.^[2][3][4]
Bún chả is originated and remains very popular in Hanoi. Outside of Hanoi, across all regions of Vietnam, a similar dish of rice vermicelli and grilled meat called bún thịt nướng is alternately served.

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