Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code?

https://matklad.github.io/2023/04/09/can-you-trust-a-compiler-to-optimize-your-code.html · More or less the title this time, but first, a story about SIMD. There are three levels of understanding how SIMD works (well, at least I am level 3 at the moment):

Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices"

https://yosefk.com/blog/why-bad-scientific-code-beats-code-following-best-practices.html

Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL - EXPLAIN EXTENDED

https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/ · A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.

Typing delay experiment

https://input-delay.glitch.me/

SQL as API

https://valentin.willscher.de/posts/sql-api/ · Why SQL can be a valid choice in your API

O(1) Build File

https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/31/O(1)-build-file.html · Rule of thumb: the size of build or CI configuration should be mostly independent of the project size. In other words, adding, say, a new test should not require adding a new line to the build file to build the test, and a new line to .yml to run it on CI.

https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and

Cold-blooded software

https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

4 billion if statements

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html · I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.

CI Dream

https://matklad.github.io/2023/12/24/ci-dream.html · This is more of an android dream (that one with a unicorn) than a coherent post, but please indulge me. It's a short one at least!