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> However, when an entire program consists of a single chain of dependent instructions, which may happen e.g. when computing certain kinds of hash functions over a file, you are do…

The Nissan versa is like the last cheap car. The Chevy Spark is dead. The Mitsubishi Mirage is dead. etc.

Car thieves have been using antennas to remotely trigger the keyless entry to great success here in Canada. Many people leave their keys on their doors so you just need to put a ra…

> I'm not talking about whether the scheduler can block the task on IO. This is trivial. The whole point of coroutines is that they are trivial to block and resume, right? So the w…

We use it at work to send FSMs over the network for distributing tasks. Admittedly we always do this with continuations that haven't started yet, but there is no technical reason w…

Scala async coroutines build FSMs that are just standard objects. They aren't very commonly used, but the same approach could probably be adapted to C. Basically the compiler compi…

For context, I came across this because I was interested in how they came to acquire the Twitter four-letter twitter handle @meta, which I wrote about here https://twitter.com/cyri…

I don't think it would be a good idea, given that you'd have to claim the winnings. It might work once or twice but not over and over again. Additionally in most cases I'd think th…

The more renewable energy that is built , the cheaper it gets. We now know that there is a cartel of US miners trying to create "clean" bitcoins (in part to appeal to Tesla and Mus…

which is basically admission that they will API it, not release the models... again. The original version on github can only compute the specific systems in the paper. https://gith…

Here is pattern matching as a library that is not built using statements, https://github.com/santinic/pampy Clearly it's possible. It's also more ergonomic than PEP 622.

I guess it comes down to whether one does the cost benefit analysis for society as a whole or for individuals. While decentralized permissionless markets can (and have) helped some…

So first, investing in DEFI is not exactly simple. If I am reading it properly, you lose 20% in fees at least if you buy bitcoin with Madagascar dollars on paxful, https://paxful.c…

The majority of people have wealth in real estate and generate income from wages, both of which are inflation neutral. In contrast, the rich are much more likely to have bonds or c…

That's been the problem with the Google result too, even though they did have "controlled" operations. They basically showed that a quantum computer doing random operations has an …

Yeah that's what I mean. This is the case for both commercial software (eg Q-Chem) and free software. This is not to say that the boot time is always a problem, there are plenty of…

why? I commonly do things like screen 10,000 molecules for some property by calling a Fortran program 10k time. If each run takes 60s of compute, the 10s boot from Julia (over the …

The wavefunction of an n qubit system is representable by a 2^n vector of complex numbers [1]. Using single precision floats [2], a 10 qubit wavefunction is 8 KB, 20 qubit = 8 MB, …

> One guy went on for like fifteen minutes about how much he hated open office plans. Does this guy have a patreon?

Correct. There is a lot of arguments around that quantum computing will scale in a Moore's Law way (wrt qubits, so doubly exponential in compute power) and thus will be useful in t…

re-running is definitely too much work for most scientific papers, at least in ML and computational sciences were experiments might take 1000s of core-hours or gpu-hours, but that'…

So I guess LLVM has rather poor fortran support, but zig fortran compilation would be really neat for all kind of scientific programming purposes. Being able to call fortran code f…

see the (current) top comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27244810 it's a very clever use of symmetry.

I did peer review for a number of scientific papers that include code. Almost every time, I was the only reviewer that even look at the code. In most cases, peer reviewers will jus…