Observations from Uppsala

10 min read 2022-10-24 02:04:55

The Mathworks Automotive Conference (MAC) 2022

The Mathworks Automotive Conference (MAC) 2022 was one-day vendor-specific conference about how Mathworks products can be/are used in the automotive

2 min read 2022-10-16 01:13:58

In the last year, I noticed that my Windows machines started to grey the screen and show a highlight around the cursor when I accidentally hit the

6 min read 2022-10-10 02:29:50

The current price spikes for electricity in Europe has driven a new interest in saving energy, and part of doing that is to understand just how much

4 min read 2022-09-16 01:00:28

The other day, I checked out the web interface to the database of in-patient care diagnoses run by Swedish Socialstyrelsen. On first opening the

8 min read 2022-08-23 02:57:02

I recently read a few articles on cognitive biases, decision making, and expert intuition from the field of management research. Then an article

5 min read 2022-07-30 00:02:34

A colleague pointed me at the grugbrain.dev website the other week. It is a very humorous set of observations on corporate life and advice to young

21 min read 2022-07-19 16:08:22

The 59th Design Automation Conference (DAC) took place in San Francisco, July 10-14, 2022. As always, the DAC provided a great place to learn

8 min read 2022-06-19 19:56:47

Back in 2016, the European Space Agency (ESA) lost the Schiaparelli Mars lander during its descent to the surface on Mars. From a software

4 min read 2022-05-24 02:10:17

Back in April, I presented a talk about how you can use Lego as an analogy for software development in the ProductBeats Show. The talk was based on

16 min read 2022-05-15 22:20:00

I recently made a trip to the US to look at some interesting things like the USS Intrepid, the architecture or New York City, and Battleship Cove.

2 min read 2022-05-13 02:02:03

Today I observed something very odd in Powerpoint. I was pasting in some text from the Simics command-line interface into a text box in Powerpoint

7 min read 2022-04-13 00:12:58

The SystemC Evolution Fika on April 7 had threading/parallelism as its theme. There were four speakers who presented various angles on how to

18 min read 2022-03-20 22:43:35

This blog post was originally posted at Intel back in 2018, but it has since been retired from the Intel blog system. As it is of general interest

2 min read 2022-03-12 23:26:17

The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) Europe is going to be in-person in München again in 2022. After two years of virtual conferences, we

5 min read 2022-02-22 16:05:08

In a previous blog, I talked a bit about the hazards of coding to an implementation and not a specification, based on 1980s home computers. While the