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In today’s world, much emphasis is placed on learning to code, and programming is touted as a golden ticket to a successful life. Despite all the code boot camps and programming being taught in elementary schools, the computer itself is often treated as an afterthought — it’s increasingly becoming invisible in the discussions of raising the next …

Apex Legends Respawn Something rather terrifying has disrupted the North American Finals of Apex Legends, and players are now starting to potentially worry about their own accounts and the overall safety of the game. Respawn and EA have postponed the North American Finals in the wake of the “competitive integrity” of the game being compromised. …

I know that the author frequents HN so hopefully this can reach him 🙂 Let me first say that this is an excellent book and IMO is as good as a Compiler book for laymen as it can be. It is way better than the other books with the same focus IMO (I compared it …

Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading (SHMT) may be the solution that can harness the power of a device’s CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator all at once, according to a research paper from the University of California, Riverside. The paper claims that this new multithreading technique can double performance and halve power consumption, which results in four …

Summary Researchers at Stanford University have developed a method called “Quiet-STaR” that enables AI systems to learn to think between the lines. This could pave the way for more versatile and efficient AI that can better solve complex tasks. When humans write or speak, we often pause to think. We consider how best to phrase …

AutoRTFM is designed to make it easy to take existing C++ code—which was never designed to have any transactional semantics—and make it transactional just by using an alternate compiler. For example, AutoRTFM enables you to write code like: void Foo(){    TArray<int> Array = {1, 2, 3};    AutoRTFM::Transact([&] ()    {        Array.Push(42);        // Array is {1, 2, 3, 42} here.        AutoRTFM::Abort();    });    // Array is …

This is an upcoming high performance computing book titled “Algorithms for Modern Hardware” by Sergey Slotin. Its intended audience is everyone from performance engineers and practical algorithm researchers to undergraduate computer science students who have just finished an advanced algorithms course and want to learn more practical ways to speed up a program than by …

Until relatively recently, security has tended to be an afterthought, something to be added once a computer and its chips have been designed. In the development of Apple silicon chips, not only was security designed in at the start, but Apple implemented and evolved part of it in the T2 chip over the years preceding …

Most hotels want you to feel at home in your room. From complimentary pens to soaps and shampoos, they will fill it with nice things to make your stay all the more comfortable. You might be tempted to take some of these things home with you. Certain items, like the complimentary shampoo, are given to …

Downloaded over 5 Billion times, NumPy is the most popular library for numerical computing in Python. It wraps low-level HPC libraries like BLAS and LAPACK, providing a high-level interface for matrix operations. BLAS is mainly implemented in C, Fortran, or Assembly and is available for most modern chips, not just CPUs. BLAS is fast, but …