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borodi··on Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)
So you do know :)
borodi··on Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively
There is the Julia package https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/BinaryBuilder.jl which creates an environment that fakes being another, but with the correct compilers and SDKs . It's used to build all the binary dependencies
borodi··on What rr does
rr is a life changing experience for debugging things. One underrated thing is being able to save and share rr traces. rr + CI makes finding and potentially fixing heisenbugs a lot easier.
borodi··on RIP Good Times (2008)
If only there was a world where the bussinesses didn't talk to each other so they wouldn't collude or fix prices, or join/buy their competition.
borodi··on Ask HN: Recommendation for general purpose JIT compiler
+1 for LLVM ORC, it's really powerful but also very easy to use. There is a simple tutorial in C++ which is a great intro to it.
borodi··on Modern Python Performance Considerations
This feels like you are describing julia, startup cost included :).
borodi··on Jax vs. Julia (Vs PyTorch)
I imagine it has to do with the fact that lots of python libraries are mostly c/c++ or fortran, while Julia packages are usually just Julia.
borodi··on Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Errors
They do auto correction while parsing. If you have a C code and forget a semicolon or something else. It will try to guess a way to fix it in order to parse the rest of the program, in order to give you other possible errors it found. There even is the -Wfatal-errors flag to disable this functionality.
borodi··on Why DC May Replace AC (2019)
Reactive power losses due to the cable's inductance are probably the largest factor in the efficiency boost of using DC. Also you can use a somewhat higher voltage since you don't have to account for the AC peak, it does mean however that breaking a DC arc is harder since the is no 0 crossing.
borodi··on Apple Mac Studio
I imagine the mac pro is going to have a Super Sayan M1
borodi··on Apple Mac Studio
So 3090 price for 3060 performance, doesn't sound very promising. I wish we could exploit those gpus easier for compute, but compute with metal is simply not there, at least for now.
borodi··on Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.5
I agree there is a lot of survivorship bias, but it seems like every triple AAA game that releases is an unfun buggy mess. It feels like they like passion and have become too corporate. Like they focused on what features the game has to have instead of being a fun game. And by having so many features of course you have more area for bugs.

Vampire survivors, a game developed by a single person provided me with more fun than cyberpunk, the game is played with just WASD.

borodi··on Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity
I wonder if you hit the drive hard enough, so that the cache gets filled, does the performance degrade by that same magnitude?
borodi··on Julia Macros for Beginners
Julia does take inspiration from Dylan and Scheme(the parser is even written in it) so it makes sense I guess
borodi··on Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, and Julia
The idea, I imagine, is to differentiate what the julia ML stack offers over what is already on python, if it offers the same thing, but without the funding from facebook or google, why bother switching? It has to offer something more.
borodi··on TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS
OBS is GPLv2 so I don't think it would get to that level. Tho if the other GPL code is v3 then who knows.
borodi··on Wavelets allow researchers to transform and understand data
They are very similar to a short term Fourier transform (STFT). Both of which permit one to analyze the spectrum of signal over time
borodi··on Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
They were greedy and put profit over game quality and were on down for a while. They haven't released a good game in years, and the WoW expansions have been a lot more miss than hit. But the harassment is what finished it for me. Shame.
borodi··on Amazon Gets Record $888M EU Fine over Data Violations
You should probably read more about the other things Bosch does i.e the entire automotive part of it.
borodi··on Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
Whether we like or not, streamers are very influential to the gaming community, all of the games that blew up in the pandemic (among us, fall guys...) Blew up because of streaming.
borodi··on Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
Atleast inside the mmo community streamers are very relevant. On the start of july a famous streamer started playing FFXIV and look at google trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F064ln09
borodi··on A 3°C world has no safe place
Oh the world will be absolutely fine, it will be we that suffer.
borodi··on Intel Distribution for Python
For sure, I switch between python, C/C++ an julia a lot and well, lets say bounds errors are pretty common for me.
borodi··on Intel Distribution for Python
While people discuss a lot about it, in the end 1 indexing doesn't really matter. I think it comes from fortran/matlab.
borodi··on Intel Distribution for Python
Julia does have channels similar to those of Go, although if you want to call it pythonic or not is up to you.
borodi··on Julia Computing raises $24M Series A
Check some replies by Keno in thread, he goes a bit deeper into their business model
borodi··on Julia and the Reincarnation of Lisp (2020)
Julia has a JIT compiler but it doesn't store the compiled code between sessions. This can add a delay on the first time you call a function. By keeping the REPL open you can avoid having these delays multiple times.
borodi··on Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
As always, the easiest way to be successful is to be born in a successful family
borodi··on Rust 1.53
Julia does this in a pretty simple way, you type \lamdba then press tab and it becomes λ, emojis and many other things work like this, so typing them is very wasy.
borodi··on .C as a file extension for C++ is not portable
People think that. amd64 and x86 today mean the same thing, C and C++ not quite. I've also seen HR people think that java and javascript are the same thing.
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