Fun fact: Aaron Swartz who helped create RSS, was involved early in the development of Reddit.

I wonder if their paper has a plot of the speedups against number of elements. Did they just stop measuring at 250k? What was the shape of the curve?

I’ll bet it just ends up being the limitations of memory bandwidth to stuff things into registers for the optimized algorithm. Or, something like Mojo’s autotuning finds the best way to partition the work for the hardware.

Regularly Use

• bash
• python
• golang
• rust
• elm

Favorite

• rust because it provides a pretty good expressive type system for letting the compiler keep you honest.
• elm helps me avoid client-side programming hell with JavaScript.

Interested

• zig because of its promise of “compile it for anything” and small language philosophy.

Wow. Now we’re getting close to being attended to by Omm in THX1138.

Actually that is kind of scary, most companies supply you with a work device so it can be securely administered. That’s kind of a red flag that they accept you working from whatever you have.

Get the laptop if you can, you can probably claim it for a reduction of taxes (keep the receipts). Keep it separate, always. You’ll appreciate being able to close the “work device” when the day is done. Also, very much lock it down–do not let friends/family “borrow” your laptop.

People do the worst crap on computers that aren’t their own.

I hate this click-baity headline. But this is pretty interesting.

Most of the world’s population either chronically suffers from plaque and dental cavities or will develop them at some point in their lives. Toothpastes, mouthwashes, and regular checkups do their part, but more could always be done. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists and their colleagues at Sichuan University and the National University of Singapore have discovered that 3,3′-Diindolylmethane (DIM), a naturally occurring molecule also known as bisindole, reduces the biofilms that produce plaque and cavities by 90%. The molecule is also found to have anti-carcinogenic properties. (my bolding)

Now the problem with this for me personally is, DIM has an awful smell–it smells like “old people” in a particularly unpleasant way.

But I can see this being pretty interesting substance to add to DIY toothpastes.

Might be somewhat partial to CueLang but that needs an external tool to fiddle with.

I mostly use YAML or TOML depending on what’s being configured.

So, is there an opposite “disease” where the deceleration-sensitive neurons are non-functional? What would that look like?