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chrisaycock

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About chrisaycock

I've worked across various tech companies and quant firms. My specialties are programming languages, high-performance computing, and systematic trading.

https://www.chrisaycock.com

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    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 metaprogrammin…

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    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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    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 as…

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    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 Anthr…

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    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…

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    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 for…

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    I hadn't realized that Kalshi is a YC company: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33696486

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    > 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 machin…

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    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 thou…