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The biggest misconception about Rust is that it’s “harder” than other languages. But that’s only true if you measure difficulty by how fast you can start writing code. If you measure difficulty by how long it takes to debug, maintain, and make a system reliable, the playing field levels out. — Rust is not harder than other languages
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?: The 3.14 JIT interpreter does not appear to provide any significant gains in speed, at least not with my test scripts. #python
Advanced Matrix Multiplication Optimization on Modern Multi-Core Processors: Lot of micro-optimization like caching and kernel tricks.
Algorithms for Competitive Programming (via Nima Aghdaii’s post on Suffix Arrays).
/me is listening to “Tell Me Who You Are Today” by Beth Gibbons
On kerning vs. letterspacing: kerning is more specific: it refers to special cases where pairs of adjacent characters are pushed towards each other.
“Oh my god! They linked in more than 64k of floating point library to compute the sqrt of an integer that is always less than 128!? For gods sake, just use a for loop counting up to 12! Or if a for loop seems liek too much work, how about a 128 byte look up table?” — The IDEs we had 30 years ago… and we lost
A recommendation engine that looks at my browsing history, sees what blog posts or articles I spent the most time on, then searches the web every night for things I should be reading that I’m not. In the morning I should get a digest of links. I also want to be able to give feedback on which were good suggestions and which weren’t to improve the next day’s digest. — The 28 AI tools I wish existed
Back in the days, I used to use Prismatic, and I was very happy with its recommendation engine. Recommendation engines and collaborative filtering are everywhere since then. What’s next?