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At least with LG TVs you can just not give them the internet and nothing of value is lost (at least assuming you have an Apple TV or other trusted smart tv capability). Much more d…

I'm still astounded my Ford's infotainment system takes 5-10 seconds after opening the radio "app" to present me with the station selection UI. Most of that seems to be some sort o…

I'm somewhat dubious about anything talking about low level performance programming at the instruction level that doesn't distinguish between latency and throughput, never mind men…

Or economies of liability and buck passing. I suspect managers and businesses will still want to be in the game of "not my fault, supplier is working on it, we can sue them if they…

It will be interesting to see if this solves any issues that aren't already addressed by the likes of matlab / SciPy / Julia. Reading the paper it sounds a lot like "SciPy but with…

Not just for speed, Horner can also be essential for numerical stability.

FORmula TRANslation, the clue is in the name. It's great at math, but yeah, strings and OS stuff is a PITA. The modern vector-based syntax is still really nice and I've yet to come…

I suspect main benefits are they have no need to maintain the hardware or software for any longer than it makes sense for their own needs, and don't have to handhold users through …

I think the current generation of tools have a long way to go before I trust any numerical algorithm they implement, based on our recent experiments trying to make it implement som…

Have meetings to figure out how to interact with the other 9990 employees. Then try and make the skeleton app left behind by the team of transient engineers who left after 18 month…

Transmission is pretty expensive, lots of infrastructure and maintenance.

I think calling VLIW "an adandoned design" is somewhat of an exaggeration, such architectures are pretty common for embedded audio processing.

This book provides a high level overview of many methods without (on a quick skim) really hinting at the practical usage. Basically this reads as a encyclopedia to me, whereas Noce…

But it can be even worse than that. It's "we assassinated the phone", "algorithm says vehicle has suspicious travel history and must die". There's no real thinking human in the loo…

Very true, but a lot of stuff builds on a few core optimized libraries like BLAS/LAPACK, and picking up a build of those targeted at a modern microarchitecture can give you 10x or …

They just label such people as Applied Mathematicians, or worse: Physicists and Engineers; and then get back to sensible business such as algebraic geometry, complex analysis and g…

Introduction to PhD study: "How hard can it be, I'm sure I could write that in a week"

I thought GPLv3 adoption by GCC was what really lit the flames on moving to llvm by commercial entities?

Oh yes, from an actual implementation POV you can just apply some transpose and ordering transforms to convert from row major to column major or vice-versa. cblas is pretty univers…

What I suspect he really means is that FORTRAN lays out its arrays column-major, whilst C choose row-major. Historically most math software was written in the former, including the…

Much better to burn the area for multiple smaller units, its a bit more area for frontend handling, but worth it for the flexibility (see Apple's M-series chips vs intel avx*).

In the UK specifically the radical reform (read destruction) of council housing by the Thatcher government had a large impact on the housing market in the 1980s.

The main advantage of cmake is it's slightly easier to use than autoconf so long as you stick to the path. Do not attempt to leave the path. Also the path is poorly signposted.

So my experience with moving from a Cambridge undergrad to an Edinburgh postgrad, albeit a couple of decades ago now, was the expectations between the two were nowhere comparable. …

There will almost certainly be an election in 2028. The degree to which it will be rigged through gerrymandering, voter intimidation, voter suppression and/or blatant cheating is a…