Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium

One week out from the world-renowned Sydney Marathon, organisers face questions about whether designers etched the wrong city’s stadium on the participation medal. The medal appears to feature a stadium carved in the likeness of Allianz Arena in the German city of Munich, rather than Allianz Stadium in Sydney – which the 42.2km (26.2 mile) … Devamını oku

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

Home»pgrust»JIT Compiling Code in 5μs Historically, fast JIT compilation was a black art. To write a fast JIT compiler, you would need to know how to write assembly. Case in point: there is no production-ready database today that has its own JIT compiler. They all either use LLVM or generate C/C++ code. Both of these … Devamını oku

The End of an Athlon

When I was researching the mess related tostrange and poorly documented CPUID bitsin theAthlon MP and XP processors, I had to swap a lot of CPUs. This was uneventful in most cases… but only most. When I removed the heatsink from one unlucky Athlon XP, the processor looked like this: And this is what the … Devamını oku

The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer

I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my spare time I like to unwind by… watching interviews where authors talk about their writing process. It’s a sickness. Help me. One of the key things I’ve learned is this: there’s no real blueprint. I … Devamını oku

I Dream of Quieter Computing

I’m thinking of quieter computing. Everything these days is glass and refresh rates, is clouds and cloud-shapes, is brought to you in feeds and in troughs. It’s hard not to pine for a forested internet, an imagined one of searching and finding, of patient and aimless wandering. I think of raising the torch overhead to … Devamını oku

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww… This sucks!” This post is going to be a rather technical series of experiments to demonstrate the impact of implementation-specific hazards with … Devamını oku

RF Cafe

Hugo Gernsback – A Concise Biography Being a big fan ofHugo Gernsback’stechnical work through his many electronics-related publications (The Electrical Experimenter, Radio Amateur News, Radio News, Radio-Craft, Short-Wave Craft, Radio-Electronics, etc.), I decided to task a couple of different AI models with conducting a deep-dive research project on all aspects of his background – family, … Devamını oku

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

You may have heard of the speech synthesis company ElevenLabs. Recently a friend mentioned they knew someone who worked at a company calledTwelveLabs that does AI for video (it feels like it must have been intended to play on the fact that ElevenLabs does audio, but I don’t know for sure). Jokingly, I googled “thirteenlabs” … Devamını oku

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

“Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it.” — Eric S. Raymond Welcome. Today you’ll learn a language from one of programming’s oldest and most unusual families. A language where code is data, where parentheses are pure structure, and where programs can write programs. By the … Devamını oku