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Thanks! Have these actively helped you? There's too much noise around this business...

I'm comfortable with Rust. Why the HW focus? I've heard about FPGAs being used for HFT, but I'm not going for sub-ms frequencies--except if it's unavoidable.

This summer I got my PhD in computer engineering. I have saved enough money to survive the next 6 months unemployed. I want to invest that time in serious preparation to become an …

You sound lucky enough to have dodged self-hate. Happy for you. Enjoy your day.

Everyone has their values. It's OK if there's no universal system. I don't want to feel bad if a day passes and I haven't learned or done anything; I trust my intuition and experie…

I wouldn't have commented if the article kept neutral on when to apply its ideas. But the push for daily learning-reflecting-etc is there. Even the segment you're quoting uses days…

> Learn something every day . It's fine if it doesn't happen every day. Don't be obsessed about this stuff. Forgive yourself if you ever behave sub-optimally. You're not a machine,…

The joke's on anyone outside of China thinking they're free.

> A version of Greg's research was published in the Wall Street Journal. This is not research; it's an opinion piece by a Bridgewater employee that may prove right in the years to …

I spent the most part of my PhD trying to convince people that allocators are not simple. But the not-simple part is design , specifically the strategy/policy part. In other words,…

I perceive a negative colouring of the "academic" notion in this post. And I totally get some of the pathologies implied: publish-or-perish is a harsh environment, lots of snobbery…

Location: Greece Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: EU or UK Technologies: Rust, Linux Résumé/CV: https://shorturl.at/0ZdaL Email: cplamprakos@proton.me

There are countless pragmatic reasons to avoid a PhD, and no doubt both the article and other commenters will bring them up. The most constructive thing I can do is share a persona…

Nah, the alternative that popped in my mind was "phantasizing", so I guess my wording aligns with my feelings. Whether these feelings are healthy is another discussion :D

Were I to design a computer ( both HW & SW), the founding principle should be compatibility with legacy code at no expense of performance or user effort. Stuff like this gives me h…

I see your point. I've had my fair share of trouble as well. Talking about this stuff on HN after the storm has passed, from a financially stable place, is a luxury on its own. Nev…

Great, useful article. Remember: the same principle holds in the world of the psyche. Those people walking around, seeming effortlessly happy? Unless if they're little children, a …

They claim their mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all humanity. What a preposterous lie. I remember asking myself when ChatGPT was launched: "why would any sane person massiv…

Wait a minute: 1. Formulating DSA as ILP doesn't scale. TelaMalloc starts from this fact as motivation. 2. There's no 1-1 mapping between tensors and allocations. Buffer re-use is …

TBH I don't know what you mean either :D I know that DSA is NP-complete, and none of the existing deep learning compilers implement the theoretical SOTA (you're probably referring …

Hopefully I'll defend next summer. Papers-and-code-wise, I haven't published the "final" thing yet. Right now I'm looking into integrating it with IREE, to get some end-to-end figu…