chrisaycock

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Is Will Power Overrated?(newyorker.com)
3 points by chrisaycock 3d ago|0 comments
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The $100M Market of Popcorn Buckets(nytimes.com)
5 points by chrisaycock 2mo ago|1 comments
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Milky Way planetary system leaves scientists puzzled(reuters.com)
4 points by chrisaycock 2mo ago|0 comments
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The DOGE Bros Want Another Shot(theatlantic.com)
2 points by chrisaycock 3mo ago|2 comments
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There's Never Been a Better Time to Study Computer Science(theatlantic.com)
8 points by chrisaycock 4mo ago|1 comments
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by chrisaycock 4mo ago
Yes, it's true that someone can put together a simple language like in a university course. The difficulties, as mentioned at the bottom of the post, are things like metaprogramming features or optimizing compilers. The tail ends of a
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French weather service alerts police after suspicious Polymarket bets(ft.com)
6 points by chrisaycock 5mo ago|0 comments
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SantaCon Leader Ran His Own $1M Con, U.S. Says(nytimes.com)
2 points by chrisaycock 5mo ago|0 comments
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Glasses Got Worse on Purpose(worse-on-purpose.beehiiv.com)
63 points by chrisaycock 5mo ago|23 comments
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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology(newyorker.com)
2 points by chrisaycock 5mo ago|0 comments
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He designed C++ to solve your code problems(stackoverflow.blog)
3 points by chrisaycock 5mo ago|0 comments
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Economists Once Dismissed the A.I. Job Threat, but Not Anymore(nytimes.com)
20 points by chrisaycock 6mo ago|9 comments
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by chrisaycock 6mo ago
The conclusion from the article is that broader economic uncertainty from tariffs and the Iran war have a bigger effect than just AI.
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by chrisaycock 6mo ago
std::execution is very interesting, but will be difficult to get started with, as cautioned by Sutter. This HPC Wire article demonstrates how to use standard C++ to benefit from asynchronously parallel computation on both CUDA and MPI: htt
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Apple Plans AI Reboot with Siri App(finance.yahoo.com)
5 points by chrisaycock 6mo ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 6mo ago
The government is free to cancel its own contracts. The judge is saying that the government cannot prohibit other entities (like private contractors) from doing business with Anthropic.
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Tech Workers Max Out Their A.I. Use(nytimes.com)
5 points by chrisaycock 6mo ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 6mo ago
The project relies on Rayon [1] for scheduling parallel tasks and Cranelift [2] to JIT the hot loops. There are plenty of other interesting features like auto-FFI, bytecode caching (similar to Python's .pyc files), and "daemonize&
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COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages(wired.com)
7 points by chrisaycock 6mo ago|3 comments
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by chrisaycock 6mo ago
The one piece of advice I give new PhD students is to maintain a list of your references for a bibliography ahead of time. For every paper you read, copy the citation in BibTeX format and write a couple of sentences to remind yourself what
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The Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers(theatlantic.com)
4 points by chrisaycock 6mo ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 7mo ago
I hadn't realized that Kalshi is a YC company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33696486
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Young billionaires are behind the prediction market boom. They hate each other(npr.org)
8 points by chrisaycock 7mo ago|1 comments
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by chrisaycock 7mo ago
> I think it would be the best to start interpreting the query and start compilation in another thread This technique is known as a "tiered JIT". It's how production virtual machines operate for high-level languages like
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by chrisaycock 7mo ago
Indeed, my very first attempt used numpy.searchsorted: https://numpy.org/doc/2.2/reference/generated/numpy.searchso... I couldn't figure-out how Arthur's bin matched on symbol though, so I swit
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by chrisaycock 7mo ago
I first encountered q/kdb+ at a quant job in 2007. I learned so much from the array semantics about how to concisely represent time-series logic that I can't imagine ever using a scalar language for research. Fun fact: the aj (aso
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Jensen Huang of Nvidia Named IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient(corporate-awards.ieee.org)
1 points by chrisaycock 8mo ago|0 comments
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by chrisaycock 8mo ago
The article points out that tools like TLA+ can prove that a system is correct , but can't demonstrate that a system is performant . The author asks for ways to assess latency et al., which is currently handled by simulation. While t
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Ask HN: Has anyone been able to renew their IEEE this month?
21 points by chrisaycock 9mo ago|2 comments
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by chrisaycock 9mo ago
I had been thinking about this idea for a long time, but I doubt I'll be able to get around to it. After speaking with a friend this evening, I decided to just jot it down for anyone interested. Basically, use copy-and-patch compilatio

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