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Perhaps worth noting that the number of lines in a cache is often different than the number of rows, which can be relevant for some workloads. The size of an ordinary cache is rows…

There’s an analysis of the Schraudolph approximation of the exponential function (along with an improvement upon it) that someone might find interesting at https://typ.dev/attentio…

SPRT is used religiously in engine development today. There is enormous incentive to test efficiently. https://github.com/official-stockfish/fishtest/wiki/Fishtest...

You may want to ask in the Stockfish discord: https://discord.com/invite/GWDRS3kU6R

I believe Peano dot notation works the other way ’round; A . B : C :. D would be, as I understand it, equivalent to: ((A B) C) D The “general principle” is that a larger number of …

I may be wrong, but I believe the name of the type family is simply Times New; the name of the italic face would then be Times New Italic rather than the contradictory Times New Ro…

> A data race occurs any time two threads access the same memory location concurrently and non-deterministically when at least one of the accesses is a write. From what I understan…

I’d argue there’s a very big difference between “x: y” and “x : y”. I can only see the former as assignment and the latter as the has-type relation. (I find it baffling in the extr…

A small nit: the development of Unix began on the PDP-7 in assembly, not the PDP-11. (The B language was implemented for the PDP-7 before the PDP-11, which are rather different mac…

I’ve noticed that, besides the magnetism and drive for sex (which would be sufficient for a species to propagate), many people also experience the biological imperative (wanting th…

At some point in my life I unconsciously decided that charisma (in this sense) was something I did not want to exercise, and was perhaps even wrong to exercise. In so many facets o…

People may also be interested in the Tako shell, which is a fork of Xonsh that “sacrifice[s] some of the ‘fancy stuff’ so that basic shell operations work as expected, the codebase…

You’d perhaps be better off using U+2002 EN SPACE (or the canonically equivalent U+2000 EN QUAD). From what I recall, the size of a typical interword space is ⅓ of an em, and tradi…

Belying the name somewhat, I believe U+3000 is specifically meant for use with Sinoform logographs, having the size of a (fullwidth character) cell, and so it makes little sense in…

“Imitation without understanding”, “imitating but misconstruing”, “mindless imitation”, “superficial emulation”, &c. I think “cargo culting” in the popular sense means little more …

I've always been mystified by that expansion. "The featured article" seems to me to make much more sense.

Perhaps “The Typefaces of Wall·E”, plural?

To save someone the lookup, this is: U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT = midpoint (in typography); Georgian comma; Greek middle dot (ano teleia) • also used as a raised decimal point or to denote …

Those aren’t syllable divisions, they’re hyphenation points! From the footnote on page 219 of Word by Word by Kory Stamper (formerly a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster): > Here is …

The title of the submission should be changed to “Type in Wall·E”, “Typesetting in Wall·E”, or “Typography in Wall·E”; the word “typeset” is a verb or past participle, not a noun.

My line of thinking roughly was, "each type system corresponds to a particular logic system and vice versa; in a proof by induction, the different cases correspond to the type cons…

How does infinite descent work using a proof assistant? It's been quite a while, so I may be remembering incorrectly, but this is my understanding: Coq uses an inductive type like …

> Research has generally linked economic inequality to political and social instability, including revolution, democratic breakdown and civil conflict. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w…

It's a familiar concept to most people, though: most people understand that people have parents, grandparents, greatgrandparents, and so on. (Maybe a bad example; I feel like it sh…