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I’ve never really thought of my procrastination as coming from perfectionism as applied to the work I’m producing, but on reflection, I realized it often comes from self-disappoint…

Shortly after joining the PyTorch compiler team, I was part of a team that decided that we should build our own tensor-expression compiler for PyTorch (called NNC, although it wasn…

By “fully fused” do you mean no function call boundaries? (“Fused” is such an overloaded term)

Are you me? This is precisely what my life feels like. Honestly, one kid was actually manageable; two sort of hit the breaking point (it didn’t help that my work went to hell at th…

Honestly I’ve been longing for a linear workday. Before kids, and before the pandemic, I used to work 9-6 and I had the most fantastic work life balance. Distance running, rock cli…

So I’m one of those people who doesn’t know how to fix anything; I wish I did! I’ll tell you what holds me back: I didn’t grow up around anyone particularly handy, so I don’t know …

For what it’s worth, I’m not saying that confidence (even hubris!) is bad! Without his confidence, said senior engineer probably wouldn’t have built his successful project. If I ha…

I was struck by this bit in the passage about hubris: “The STEM student is taught that hubris is a useful vocational skill.” I recently asked a successful senior engineer how he wa…

Re: maps. Eh. Some people tend to romanticize the pre-GPS era with stories of serendipitous adventures, but that doesn’t match my experience at all. My recollection is that wanderi…

> I assert most people will enjoy a baked potato ... about as much as garlic bread See I'd assert the opposite, or at least the following more nuanced version, for myself: If I mak…

Totally hear you. We just added kids 3 & 4 in the fall (twins! Yay!) and so far I’m on paternity leave and just managing a bit of a workout (push-ups, squats, etc) but I have this …

Seems appropriate to quote Bertrand Russell here: “Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but …

Ah, I overlooked this explanation at first: https://github.com/rui314/mold/blob/main/docs/design.md Thanks for the great write up as well as mold itself!

Could you comment on which data structures are most critical to mold’s performance, and what makes them so fast?

I also found this disappointing. There’s supposedly a 100x speed up to be had going from something in pandas to something using plain python lists but I have no real idea what it i…

But what’s the back pressure to this advice? If I need to multiply matrices should I write my own to avoid including MKL BLAS? What’s the heuristic that determines when a dependenc…

I’ve always considered taking a lecturer position as a sort of second career if I ever want something different from Big Tech. It’s kind of a shame the health insurance offering is…

My pet peeve is `XXX:`, which I see with distressing regularity in the codebase I work in. It’s non-specific, but vaguely ominous. Is it a TODO? A warning? A bug? An incantation to…

I love Daniel’s vectorized string processing posts. There’s always some clever trickery that’s hard for a guy like me (who mostly uses vector extensions for ML kernels) to get quic…

I was thinking this would be cool as a tree map ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping ) since that allows for nicely visualizing hierarchical categories.

Thanks!

Are there libraries/tools that people use to do Remez/Chebyshev/etc. function expansions? I can do a basic Taylor series expansion by hand but I’m out of my depth with more sophist…

> how much better it is when you have actual control over which parts of your program are JITed Can you elaborate? What’s the advantage of controlling which parts are jitted?

Possibly the concern with sharing answers is that students could memorize the form of likely exam questions without deeply understanding the material? But that risk exists simply b…

As someone with small children, I found myself wondering whether the parents of these Brooklyn writers have actually done their children a service or disservice by funding a financ…