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At the same time, though, it doesn’t mean you can’t infer the location parameter of a Cauchy distribution with more and more precision as you receive more samples. It just means th…

Tried to build it but it references a `cmake/GenerateMenuHelpHeader.cmake` that seems to be absent from the repository?

… Or perhaps I too would be interested to know what you allege is faster on your 2019 MacBook? Or was it only ever meant as “random noise opining” and nothing more?

Maybe we don’t necessarily expect them to answer from their own knowledge, but to either do that or say “I don’t know”.

On the contrary, they care enough about facts not to take a random, implausible and unsubstantiated claim at face value. Please don’t resort to Bulverism.

You are the one refusing to give any detail whatsoever (e.g. what task?) to substantiate your claim.

> I’m not trying to prove anything…? That’s exactly the point. Why would you expect others to even entertain a vague claim like that if you give them no reason to find it plausible…

You’re shifting the burden of proof. You made a claim and refused to substantiate it in any way whatsoever.

> Being French, I have a hard time understanding why you wouldn't. I too am French and I’m more puzzled by you than by the driver. Am I secretly German?

Isn’t this a bit like saying “ ‘open object files are not open source’ is a complete misunderstanding” because “You can’t rebuild the executable from scratch, but you can’t do this…

Jumbling together year, month and day and having to separate them by counting digits is not an improvement for human readability. (And you have the year wrong.) Any of “27 July 202…

> ECS “Entity Component System”, for those like me who didn’t immediately think of it.

> But SIMD code is still not write-once-run-everywhere. Modern, portable SIMD libraries are making it increasingly close to that. Highway is my personal favourite, thanks in part f…

A lot of cheese is naturally lactose-free. That’s not really where most of the “danger” is for people who don’t tolerate lactose.

> If you start to drop effort levels, you need to compare to the competition models. Yes. I advocate for doing that. > So GPT models on the same ~intelligence level, are then 50% c…

Your numbers are for “max”. Opus 5.0 “max” is $2.03. Opus 5.0 “high” (competitive with Claude 4.8 “max” on that index) is $1.06, less than the $1.80 you are quoting for 4.8 max. Th…

Forgot to add: using Highway also means that you can detect and take advantage of e.g. AVX2 or AVX-512 in one binary that still works on CPUs without those instruction sets, wherea…

> How is that different from any other compiler optimization? When it can be single-handedly responsible for an 8× speedup, you might not want to rely as much on the compiler as in…

> HN has a fetish for SIMD, but if you are hand-rolling SIMD and you aren't writing an explicit acceleration library, you're doing it wrong. Like, 100% of the time. What if the “ex…

> You really should see if you can get the compiler to auto-vectorize first (possibly padding data structures and loops) before you write anything by hand. Counterpoint: https://ph…

It really doesn’t take much complexity at all for autovectorisation to fail.

There is some discussion of the possible options here: https://github.com/google/highway#strip-mining-loops

That can easily cause you to traverse your data several times when once would be enough. Let’s say you wanted to compute “mean of array divided by max in absolute value”. NumPy-lik…

Explicit SIMD doesn’t have to mean hand-crafting assembly (and I don’t think it did in this instance).