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regehr, 10 months ago to random

in recent peer review news, a paper from my group got really savaged by the reviewers at a usually-solid CS conference -- across the reviews they complained about basically every single thing we did

and of course this happens at the same time that multiple companies have expressed interest in that project, argh.

adrian, 11 months ago to random

my #breadposting don’t want none unless you got

ricci, 11 months ago to random

No matter how many times it's explained to me, and regardless of whether I temporarily get glimpses of a world in which it just might make sense, I just continue to find myself fundamentally unable to grok the International Date Line. It's kinda like Continuation Passing Style in that regard.

adrian, 1 year ago to random

I choose to believe Merkle trees were invented by Chancellor Angela Merkel and I have no reason to revisit this assumption

adrian, 1 year ago to random

when I learned about computer architecture, there were two immutable truths: (1) Intel had an insurmountable 1-node process technology lead, so the best processors were stuck with their monstrous ISA, like it or not; and (2) x86 was and always would be backward-compatible through 1979, taking on new instructions each year like barnacles on a whale but never shedding them.

I’m still grappling with the now-long-gone death of #1, and now this! (h/t @regehr) https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/envisioning-future-simplified-architecture.html

adrian, 1 year ago to random

I wrote that blog post I threatened a while back about “flattened” ASTs. I did a little microbenchmarking of a toy interpreter and the results were surprisingly good?? https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/flattening.html

adrian, 1 year ago to random

more #mosstodon (or is it #lichensubscribe?) from the bike trail