Anything Good Happen Today?

[RavynousHunter]

Not so much good as it is curious...

I'm taking my first foray into LINQ and PLINQ (think SQL for code...more or less), and I found that my little program that rolls a bunch of dice and filters results vs. a target value (roll >= target) takes longer when the filtering is done in parallel (PLINQ) than when done sequentially (regular LINQ).  I've tried just about every permutation of the code of which I can think, and the results are all the same: dice rolling works best in parallel, but the filtering works best sequentially.  Maybe if I try using the LINQ methods instead of keywords, I'll get different results, but still, this is most odd...most odd, indeed.

[ETA]

Nope, even using the methods, its still slower.  The hell?

[The_Queen]

Not so much good as it is curious...

I'm taking my first foray into LINQ and PLINQ (think SQL for code...more or less), and I found that my little program that rolls a bunch of dice and filters results vs. a target value (roll >= target) takes longer when the filtering is done in parallel (PLINQ) than when done sequentially (regular LINQ).  I've tried just about every permutation of the code of which I can think, and the results are all the same: dice rolling works best in parallel, but the filtering works best sequentially.  Maybe if I try using the LINQ methods instead of keywords, I'll get different results, but still, this is most odd...most odd, indeed.

[ETA]

Nope, even using the methods, its still slower.  The hell?

Have you tried hitting it? That usually makes it work.

[RavynousHunter]

Found out something interesting, yesterday: three ways to force methods to execute in separate threads without having to wrap them up inside a Thread object (which can be cumbersome and I'm not 100% sure if it works with methods that have non-void return types and/or arguments).  Parallel.Invoke() forces lambdas and anonymous delegates into separate threads from the main thread, according to my small experiments, but not methods outside the calling method.  For that, you've got to wrap your method up in a Func<TArg, ReturnType> and call it that way.  This should be quite handy should I want to force certain methods to execute in parallel with the main thread while not having to bother wrapping it up in an explicit Thread object.

[niam2023]

I discovered I can incline bench my body weight +6 pounds. For reference, I way 179 pounds right now and incline is a more difficult exercise than standard bench.

[The_Queen]

I caught a shiny Graveler, just randomly in the wild in pokemon Crystal.

[Art Vandelay]

I hope you're part of that tiny minority that would ever be able to evolve it.

[Veras]

It wasn't today, but I've been too busy to post about it until today:

I'm now a father!  My son was born at 6:15 PM on Thursday, August 18, 2016.  The labor was rough and it ultimately ended in a c-section, so it will take some time for my wife to recover, but we got what we wanted:  healthy mommy, healthy baby.

It's weird, I never wanted kids, but I had to run some errands today and it only took me being away for maybe 20 minutes before I started missing him, so apparently I was wrong about that.

[Askold]

Congratulations!

[rookie]

Congratulations! Just know when to say when lol.

[davedan]

Congratulations. Welcome to the club.

[ironbite]

Speaking of new life....I GOT A NEW COMPUTER!

Ironbite-A PC!  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[RavynousHunter]

Speaking of new life....I GOT A NEW COMPUTER!

Ironbite-A PC!  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Welcome to the Cool Kids Club!

[Zygarde]

21 years ago a person was born, this made a lot of people angry and is generally regarded by many people as a bad move, so yeah I turned 21 today happy me!

[Random Gal]

Hi everyone! I'm back!

I was gone for a week or so due to having other things on my plate. As you may recall from a thread I posted on the subject, I lost my job as a field paleontologist in California after two clients I was brought on to do consulting work for backed out of their projects and left me with no work.

Anyway, I could no longer afford rent in California without the job, so my parents ended up having to bail me out of that positions and cosigned with me on a small studio apartment back in Arizona where I'd been living before. So anyway, I'm back on my feet for the moment. My last apartment complex was nice enough that they'll be returning most of my $2490 deposit soon and I still have around $350 to my name before that after rent and bills are paid for August. I'm back to doing volunteer work on fossils at the local museum while interviewing for various different jobs at this point.

Anyway, I only just got my internet connected at my apartment today, so I thought I'd stop in and say hi.

And congratulations to Veras of course

[Søren]

Looks like I might be finally moving out.