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2024 will be an interesting year for software performance based on what I read a few days ago: Data-type profiling for perf : There s also the presentation of the author from November 2023: A few more relevant tools for people doing performance work: See also:
Recently I ve come across the following message from the Twitter account of SDF Public Access UNIX System, and I realized that I have some personal connection to the whole thing, albeit weakly. How so? you might ask, well, keep on reading It points to a short movie from 1967, Ellis D. Kropotechev and Zeus, A [ ]
Today I decided to ask some difficult questions about very big numbers to Amazon Alexa: At least, it is better than the current Google Calculator, I mean, Amazon Alexa tries at least, before throwing in the towel 😉 It all started with the following observation: Well, dealing with such large numbers isn t easy, especially if [ ]
My wife has recently drawn my attention to a very interesting report about diversity in Belgium: In a piece dated 8th January, 2022, written by Tobias Santens in one of the mainstream media outlets, you can find interactive information visualizations about some diversity figures in Belgium. The piece starts with the following (automatic translation): Unknown [ ]
These days I m busy helping one of our clients build a data platform for their renewable energy project in their own data center using Nutanix. I requested from their tech support a RAM and CPU cores upgrade for one of the virtual machines that was already running Debian GNU/Linux. When they informed me that they [ ]
Thanks to a recent post on lwn.net, I learned about a new data structure: Maple Tree. Apparently, it s been in development for the last 1.5 years: The Maple Tree is a new data structure for Linux that provides an efficient way to store index ranges which map to a single pointer. It is RCU-safe and [ ]
I ve recently come across the names of two women that were active during the birth and early days of Unix, back in 1970s and 1980s. For future reference, I wanted to note down information about these pioneering women. For many people, writing is painful and editing one s own prose is difficult, tedious, and error-prone. It [ ]
I ve come across the following when doing research on data processing inequality : As it s also stated in Scholarpedia s Mutual information article, Kullback-Leibler divergence is not a true distance: it is not symmetric, and it does not obey the triangle inequality (Cover and Thomas, 1991). It is not hard to show that DKL(P(z) Q(z)) is non-negative, and [ ]
UPDATE (2025-09-17): Five years later, maybe I should update the title as Perspectives from a 15-year-old open source project ! OK, let s get on with an exciting update! ➡ Bülent Arman Aksoy has recently announced https://github.com/armish/nokta-ai, A lightweight PyTorch-based neural network package for restoring diacritics in Turkish text. nokta-ai can accurately restore Turkish special…
If you are an engineer, or an engineering manager responsible for designing software-intensive complex systems, you will find a lot of food for thought in the following quotes from The Sciences of the Artificial by Nobel laureate and Turing Award recipient Herbert A. Simon. You might realize that the term software never appears in the [ ]