Sharing some thoughts to save younger programmers from falling into a common trap: The Alternative Implementation Problem

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Searchable Linux Syscall Table for x86-64 - Filippo Valsorda filippo.io/linux-syscall-…

『すずめの戸締まり』に登場する3本脚の椅子を再現したロボット設計，強化学習による歩容生成の論文を公開しました！

来週アメリカで開催されるRoboSoft2024にて発表します！

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#すずめの戸締まり

I will not fear. Fear is the code killer.

Fear makes you a worse programmer - Julia Evans jvns.ca/blog/2014/12/2…

Sonic Respiration: Controlling your breathing rate by layering white noise on a music recording when your rate is not on target.

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Become my colleague! Tenure-track position in computer engineering: mobile computing, networking, security. French required.

Going Manic with a FitBit - breckyunits breckyunits.com/going-manic-wi…

The Race to Make Humans Obsolete - Something I wrote for my friends working in AI
pointersgonewild.com/2024/04/07/the…

The Seiko DATA-2000 (1984) was a smartwatch that came with a removable, external keyboard

Functional programming means algebraic thinking. Algebraic thinking requires types to be as interchangeable as possible. Interchangeable types means fewer types. Therefore, functional programming should by definition strive towards minimalism. Fewer types, less complexity.

I hate it when languages try to be 'smart' and return some weird type when I'm expecting an array/list. It's super awkward to have to deal with some LazyWeirdVoodooShitIterator or FunkyWeirdIterable that's not interchangeable with a normal f'ing list.

Arc and Mutex in Rust - It's all about the bit itsallaboutthebit.com/arc-mutex/

An underrated performance advantage that systems languages have (vs say Java) is the ability to design tightly packed memory layouts. If your program needs to access lots of data, memory bandwidth and cache efficiency starts to matter. In C/Rust, you can make every bit count.

'Fixing a Bug in PyPy's Incremental GC', a new blog post by CF Bolz-Tereick: pypy.org/posts/2024/03/…

Neuralink was kind enough to open their doors for me to tour their headquarters a few weeks back. It was an amazing experience and a day I'll never forget. This was at a company wide meeting at the end of the day. Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Hope y'all enjoy!…

One of the things I dislike the most with 'traditional' WYSIWYG text editors is that there's all this hidden formatting. Suddenly the font and line spacing for a paragraph is different from the others, for no apparent reason, and it's unclear where these options are set.

The general-purpose robot race is really on. The next 10 years are going to be interesting for sure.

If we assume that neural networks can be scaled infinitely, and that with bigger scale always comes better performance, is the demand for compute potentially unlimited? Will we reach a plateau of diminishing returns anytime soon?

New York Fed analysis:

There are 14 college majors where at least half of graduates make $100k+ by mid career.

They’re practically all in engineering, software, or economics.