karelpeeters

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1. 31.▲
   by karelpeeters 4y ago

   That's the idea behind the Hutter prize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize
2. 32.▲
   by karelpeeters 4y ago

   Yes, a perfect recording of the amplitude of a function at a frequency of at least 2B contains enough information to perfectly reconstruct that function. Reaching this frequency is not that hard, but getting a perfect amplitude measurement
3. 33.▲
   by karelpeeters 4y ago

   They're talking about the fact that recompiling the rustc compiler itself is very complex and resource intentisive. That may not actually be a problem though, since the current compiler executable is already good enough for almost any
4. 34.▲
   by karelpeeters 4y ago

   This has always seemed so strange to me, where are all of these applications that allocate a bunch of memory and then never use it? Isn't this just a chicken-and-egg thing where linux allowed this and then programs started depending
5. 35.▲
   by karelpeeters 4y ago

   The paper you linked, https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803 , is also a fun read.
6. 36.▲
   by karelpeeters 5y ago

   That's not particularly relevant, no standard library sort method is using multithreading in the background. It actually is about algorithmic improvements.