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by shoo 4y ago
Tom Forsyth gave a talk at handmade seattle 2019 titled "SMACNI to AVX512 the life cycle of an instruction set" https://guide.handmade-seattle.com/c/2019/talks/lifecycle-of...
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by shoo 4y ago
one thing that'd be interesting to see benchmarked is the performance of a linked list implementation vs a heap backed by an array allocated with sufficient capacity for expected usage, so it doesn't need to be resized often (or e
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previously: On Modern Hardware the Min-Max Heap beats a Binary Heap https://probablydance.com/2020/08/31/on-modern-hardware-the-... heaps of comments in the 2020 HN thread: https://news.ycombinato
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SMACNI to AVX512 – the life cycle of an instruction set(media.handmade-seattle.com)
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Can anyone suggest high-quality resources for learning about compression?
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similarly, see also the benchmarks in https://www.timlrx.com/blog/benchmark-of-popular-graph-netwo... those benchmarks measure the julia lightgraphs library computing pagerank 429x to 26x faster than networkx, on large
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It depends on your business context. Different business need different business cases. What is the bottleneck or priorities for the business context you operate in? Engineering decisions that produce the best business outcomes for a pre pro
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What I found amazing about FEM is not the detail of how to implement it in code, but all the PDE theory & approximation theory -- how you can express the original continuous-domain infinite dimensional problem in a weak form using an in
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the juxtaposition of nan boxing with egg boxing on the frontpage is enjoyably confusing. what is this, boxing day? what if you boxed two nans, in the sense of egg boxing? which nan would emerge the victor? the answer is likely nan. what if
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I've worked in a similar environment. The motivation to batch releases was largely driven by a desire to do full end-to-end integration testing of changes between a number of entangled backend and frontend systems. It often took days t
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A subtlety of point 2 is that not all products or services benefit from multiple deploys per day. If each deploy creates work or risk for the customer, then beyond some point, frequent deploys may be harmful. Your customers may have more v
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> In one browser my mic works, but I cannot see screens shared by other people. In another browser it is the reverse. perhaps joining calls from a convex combination of browsers might give you the least-worst results
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I ran a bunch of interviews over the last couple of years, in some (reasonably rare) cases I saw quite junior candidates with only a year or two experience who scored very strongly on our technical interviews -- not at a senior level but as
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You can certainly hit AUD 200k (including superannuation) as a senior software engineer at one of the big australian banks. To go much higher you probably have to stop being an IC and start being an engineering manager. Or stop being a per
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you're taking a gamble unless you engage a company with at least 25% elemental and regulatory resistances
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HMM state-machine tangent: A certain kind of state machine pops up when trying to model systems with hidden Markov models. We start by first supposing there's a Markov chain: there is some state space, the chain picks a state from the
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For a single file you can use `git log` to show you all patches that changed the file, going back in history forever: git log --follow --patch -- some/file It composes with Tomte's @{1 year ago} tip if you want to start rea
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yes
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> to train a state of the art ASR AI, you need roughly 100x A100 for a month, 100,000+ hours of audio recordings, and math knowledge to find a maximum likelihood path through a logit matrix. Do you think there is a distinction between th
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I reckon Mitchell & Webb have a good take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnd5ilKx2Y
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oh i agree, that's why i find the situation odd! i'm talking working on projects with people whose first encounter with make is in a project where someone else has defined a Makefile to wrap imperative actions, e.g. `make run-unit
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by shoo 4y ago
I've worked on a few projects that apply this pattern of using a Makefile to define and run imperative commands. A few people develop the pattern independently, then it gets proliferated through the company as part of the boilerplate i
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see also: Kohavi, Ron, Diane Tang, and Ya Xu. 2020. Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: A Practical Guide to A/B Testing. Cambridge University Press; https://experimentguide.com/
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https://www.rifters.com/echopraxia/recruiter.htm
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by shoo 4y ago
re: productivity, you may appreciate this quote from John Muir: > I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mo
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Many people find it motivating to see their work actually get used, and also understand the context and bigger picture in which their work forms a part. Does your work get used? how long is the feedback loop, for something you create to ge
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Evaluating if a possible employee-employer match is a good fit often requires several hours of idiosyncratic effort from both parties, both parties usually want to do a bit of due diligence. A common outcome is that the mutual fit will not
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it'll depend on the firm, their current situation & what client projects they have lined up. As a permanent employee of a consultancy, the consultancy takes on the liability of having to pay you a wage even if they run out of billa
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If you truly embrace the fibonnaci system, the estimation system is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, ..., as defined in the standard https://oeis.org/A000045 . So if someone says they estimate "1", they should clarify if they me
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by shoo 4y ago
PepsiCo Inc (PEP, Nasdaq) isn't merely a beverage company - as explained in this strategy document - it is a space company. The Pepsi Universe, with respect to its 8 light year characteristic length, reflects the scale of the total add

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