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Welcome to the lucky 10,000! SIMD is actually a pretty integral part of how GPUs are able to work efficiently, it's part of why there's such a strong focus on branchless programmin…

Where would you draw the line between someone advocating for their belief vs shoving it down your throat? Does the "extremeness" of the belief factor into the judgement? If so, how…

I read Singh's book a few years ago, I really enjoyed it and left with a basic understanding of the underlying math

I agree with a lot of this, and the framing is new to me and I really appreciate it. I especially appreciate the acknowledgement that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with ha…

I'm using a mac for work, and coming from Linux I'm pleasantly surprised by how great homebrew is. It really makes the the experience a lot better

Yeah, this take is wildly out of touch. Sure, it's great when you're able to derive philosophical meaning from your work, but at the end of the day the vast majority of people are …

The keyboard looks great in general, but jumping into switch design is a huge undertaking. If you're willing to share: how many presses are these rated for? What is the yield looki…

Great project! Are vertex insertion and deletion also supported/accelerated? What compromises are keeping this constrained to 32-bit? It seems like you could cut back on quantizati…

A lot of the discussion here is pretty surprising. Saying "The information is in people's heads" is wild considering the allegations involve taking screenshots of documents, not ju…

Hey HN! I created a library that extends GJK-based collision to higher dimensions. This approach unifies the math for computing the distance to the origin for any simplex in any di…

I think another aspect of this is that the author experienced positive feedback from this approach early on. Rejection is tough to deal with, but having an instance that turned out…

While I generally agree that local models will gain popularity and Apple is generally well situated to capitalize on this, articles like this are not the way to convince anyone. Pl…

This decision may also be related to infrastructure. Even if Codeberg wasn't against heavy LLM use for moral reasons, their limited infrastructure would have a hard time keeping up…

My understanding is that this more of a tactical consideration than a technical one. When these planes were used in the Gulf war, they were absolutely detected by Iraqi radars; the…

Super exciting stuff, especially coming from one of the best projects in Rust (imo). Can't wait to see where this goes!

This is interesting analysis, but I don't think it necessarily counteracts what the book is saying. To build state-affiliated housing also involved "clearing the pipes" as the arti…

One of my main takeaways from this article is that the author ADORES Umberto Eco. Which is understandable.

Pretty important asterisk concerning the privatization of the Japanese rail network: this privatization led to the closure of a lot of rural, unprofitable lines. IMO this would pla…

I was thinking of the data race case, and I was unaware of relaxed access used by other languages. Thanks for sharing!

I can see how multiple mutable references is fine in a single-threaded context, but surely this would cause UB in the multi-thread context?

I've been on my soapbox for a while that introductory machine learning courses should cover the basics of optimization. Even just basic KKT conditions could add a lot.

I'm a huge fan of Paul's, and his book Measurement is easily the most beautiful introduction to geometry out there. I appreciate his focus on how to maintain engagement with studen…