Mon Feb 13 19:11:37 2023 (*b05743e5*):: https://thenewstack.io/can-c-be-saved-bjarne-stroustrup-on-ensuring-memory-safety/ đ *** Can C++ Be Saved? Bjarne Stroustrup on Ensuring Memory Safety *** C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup joins calls for changing the programming language itself to address security concerns, though other core contributors want to make more modest moves. *** The New Stack (*6952cd93*):: bahhh shut up and […]
Wed Jan 25 20:00:16 2023 (*3bd42332*):: (*6952cd93*):: +public!
Mon Jan 9 21:12:24 2023 (*6952cd93*):: (*4cfb807c*):: +public! CS725-Foundations-of-Machine-learning.pdf
Mon Jan 2 01:42:39 2023 (*6952cd93*):: https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/ +public! *** Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence | Quanta Magazine *** Maintenance of the software thatâs used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia. *** Quanta Magazine (*6952cd93*):: there’s only […]
Wed Dec 28 02:05:56 2022 (*6952cd93*):: rust propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLyIBkBrl0 +public! *** Go (Golang) vs. Rust: (HTTP/REST API in Kubernetes) Performance Benchmark *** YouTube
Mon Dec 26 01:52:40 2022 (*b05743e5*):: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6YRqT4Duo *** Stanford Lecture: Don Knuth – Twintrees, Baxter Permutations, and Floorplans (2022) *** YouTube
Mon Dec 12 00:57:50 2022 (*6952cd93*):: Cant wait for optical chips, classical computing will get a truly insane boost in speed, and interfacing with qubits will be much easier https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/optical-computers-run-a-million-times-faster-than-conventional-computers-study-reveals +public! *** Optical computers run a million times faster than conventional computers, study reveals *** Researchers have discovered a way to run light-based logic gates, […]
Wed Nov 23 21:55:31 2022 (*4cfb807c*):: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-reveals-new-possibilities-in-matrix-multiplication-20221123/ *** AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication | Quanta Magazine *** Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem. *** Quanta Magazine (*6952cd93*):: That’s awesome stuff. Its like newton’s method on crack +public! (*4cfb807c*):: Yeah […]
Wed Nov 2 02:19:26 2022 (*6952cd93*):: this is awesome https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/11/01/228240/metas-ai-powered-audio-codec-promises-10x-compression-over-mp3 +public! *** Meta’s AI-Powered Audio Codec Promises 10x Compression Over MP3 – Slashdot *** Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta […]
Sat Oct 29 03:35:18 2022 (*9cb05920*):: +public! https://lifearchitect.ai/how-do-i-talk-to-gpt/ *** How do I talk to GPT? *** Note: This page is about typing text to GPT. If you are looking for how you can use your voice to speak to GPT-3 and hear its responses, please see my article on using the macOS CLI + dictation […]
Thu Sep 8 17:51:19 2022 (*b05743e5*):: https://medium.com/swlh/memory-optimizations-for-go-systems-48d95cf64a13 *** Memory Optimizations for Go Systems *** How to diagnose and optimize performance regressions caused by high memory usage in Go systems *** Medium (*6952cd93*):: +public! (*b05743e5*):: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwOxQpLeWlw *** Heap Optimizations for Go Systems with Nishant Roy from Pinterest (August 2022) *** YouTube
Thu Sep 8 16:15:45 2022 (*6952cd93*):: https://bryanftan.medium.com/accept-interfaces-return-structs-in-go-d4cab29a301b +public! *** âAccept Interfaces, return structsâ in Go *** Say goodbye to preemptive interfaces *** Medium
Thu Sep 1 01:55:33 2022 (*b05743e5*):: https://medium.com/swlh/memory-optimizations-for-go-systems-48d95cf64a13 *** Memory Optimizations for Go Systems *** How to diagnose and optimize performance regressions caused by high memory usage in Go systems *** Medium (*6952cd93*):: +public!
Fri Aug 12 01:33:17 2022 (*6952cd93*):: https://devclass.com/2022/08/04/retire_javascript_says-json-creator-douglas-crockford/ +public! *** ‘The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,’ says JSON creator Douglas Crockford ⢠DEVCLASS *** Best thing we can do to JavaScript is retire it: JSON creator Douglas Crockford *** DEVCLASS (*8e881bee*):: FWIW some of the same arguments apply to […]
Wed Aug 10 21:20:44 2022 (*6952cd93*):: https://devclass.com/2022/08/04/retire_javascript_says-json-creator-douglas-crockford/ +public! *** ‘The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it,’ says JSON creator Douglas Crockford ⢠DEVCLASS *** Best thing we can do to JavaScript is retire it: JSON creator Douglas Crockford *** DEVCLASS
Sat Aug 6 00:48:06 2022 (*30ec2690*):: a graybeard at stanford led a group working on what they called “the mill cpu” as a novel architecture. The story made the rounds back in 2014, haven’t heard anything it lately. Maybe we’ll see new architectures when more chips get made in America (*6952cd93*):: Eulogy for gEEks https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/electrical_engineers_extinction/ […]
Sat Aug 6 00:19:34 2022 (*6952cd93*):: Eulogy for gEEks https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/electrical_engineers_extinction/ +public! *** Engineers on brink of extinction threaten entire ecosystems *** Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies *** theregister.com (*290283ee*):: One of reasons (at least for the compute areas) is that the architecture has tapped out since 2004 or so. In […]
Fri Aug 5 22:35:11 2022 (*6952cd93*):: Eulogy for gEEks https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/electrical_engineers_extinction/ +public! *** Engineers on brink of extinction threaten entire ecosystems *** Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies *** theregister.com (*290283ee*):: One of reasons (at least for the compute areas) is that the architecture has tapped out since 2004 or so. In […]
Thu Jul 21 00:32:40 2022 (*6952cd93*):: Eulogy for gEEks https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/18/electrical_engineers_extinction/ +public! *** Engineers on brink of extinction threaten entire ecosystems *** Resting on its laurels is costing the industry its hardies *** theregister.com (*6952cd93*):: I always found it weird that software jobs were simply more lucrative than hardware. Maybe that’s about to change.
Mon Jul 18 16:38:16 2022 (*6952cd93*):: these little boards are getting nice https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/07/18/libre-computer-roc-rk3328-cc-now-supports-ubuntu-22-04-with-linux-5-18-2/ +public! *** Libre Computer ROC-RK3328-CC now supports Ubuntu 22.04 with Linux 5.18.2 – CNX Software *** Libre Computer’s latest Ubuntu 22.04 desktop and server images for ROC-RK3328-CC board are based on Linux mainline, namely Linux 5.18.2, and other boards *** CNX Software […]