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Great article! For those interested in an open source design embodying these techniques, I have an open source hardware design here: https://github.com/russellmcc/dco with a blog w…

Awesome project! As a professional audio developer, I was really blown away that this was the author's first project working with audio. For anyone interested, I'd recommend checki…

Thanks for the clarification. I guess like all trade-offs, it's context dependent. I see the advantages of having a realtime usable non-optimized build for debugging. Since I use m…

Well, you aren’t rebuilding your binary every frame, are you? I might be missing something. Also, I think build time is super important in most contexts - what I think is less impo…

I work using C++17 for high performance applications, and I can relate to a lot of these gripes. I think it's a fair point that C++ is unreasonably complex as a language, and it's …

There was a C with Classes. http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#invention

Of course you can do this in Haskell: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.2/html/libraries/base/Un...

This was done on a much larger scale (without primes) as a lottery game in Sweden called "Limbo" or "LUPI" (lowest unique positive integer). Several game theorists have analyzed th…

Multi-armed bandit isn't an algorithm, it's a model of how to view the problem. Like it or not, the problem web designers face fits the multi-armed bandit model pretty well. The al…

I find it interesting that there is no mention of using dependently typed languages or proof engines for this application. Something like Coq, where you write the formal proof of c…

Seems like a nice companion to Whitespace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

I have mixed feelings about this book. It's how I learned electronics, so I can't knock it too much. However, sometimes the explanations, which tend to be intuitive rather than log…

64 bit x86 is very similar to 32 bit. The differences are covered in on slides 191-193 in this deck. The biggest difference for me is the difference in the calling convention. In 3…

While I agree that this is totally possible, are there any shipping, non-buggy optimizers that do this? Sometimes C/C++ seems purposely designed to make the compiler/optimizer's jo…

I'm not sure what you're getting at. As a thought experiment, let's consider a pulse that has been band-limited to 20kHz. Are you arguing that the analog output of a (filtered, ide…

This is completely incorrect, by shannon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_samplin... ). The sampling frequency determines the maximum frequency that can be ca…