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Floating-Point Determinism | Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson
Is IEEE floating-point math deterministic? Will you always get the same results from the same inputs? The answer is an unequivocal “yes”. Unfortunately the answer is also an unequivocal “no”. I’m afraid you will need to clarify your question. My hobby: injecting code into other processes and changing the floating-point rounding mode on some threads …
Random Thoughts 15 years into Software Engineering
I’m coming up on 15 years of professional software engineering. I’ve worked at companies from unknown startups to large FAANG-like silicon valley companies and everywhere in between. In no particular order, just sharing some things I’ve learned that others may find helpful. Try not to think in absolutes. Computers are great at binary, humans not …
Winn-Dixie showers health care workers with random acts of kindness
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Winn Dixie celebrated “Random Acts of Kindness Day” on Wednesday by giving back to some of the community’s essential health care workers. The company presented 500 bags of food items to hospital employees at Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Baptist Health. They were behind-the-scenes employees, like maintenance workers, who help keep the hospital …
3 people killed, 3 injured in random shooting at Illinois bowling alley: Police
The shooting took place in Rockford, Illinois, northwest of Chicago. December 27, 2020, 3:13 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Three people are dead and at least three others injured after a person opened fire at random in a bowling alley in Rockford, Illinois, on Saturday evening. The shooting …
Penguin Random House to Buy Simon & Schuster
ViacomCBS received more than half a dozen inquiries from interested buyers, including financial firms and the French media giant Vivendi, which holds a minority stake in Hachette through the publisher Lagardère. The top three contenders were Bertelsmann, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which owns HarperCollins, and Vivendi. News that Bertelsmann was close to a deal was …
Experts: Flash in dark sky of Western Pa., Ohio was probably a random meteor – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Experts: Flash in dark sky of Western Pa., Ohio was probably a random meteor Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Fireball In The Sky: Social Media Lights Up With Reports Of Giant Meteor Across The East Coast CBS Pittsburgh Meteor, asteroid or UFO? Multiple reports of streak of bright light WXIX Photos: Bright flash lights up dark skies over parts of eastern …
Wesley So First World Official Fischer Random Chess Champion
Wesley So has won the first official World Fischer Random Chess Championship, sweeping aside Magnus Carlsen in the final. So needed just two fast-rapid games to dispatch Carlsen and become the first official Fischer Random chess world champion. Defending with black in the first game, So agreed to a repetition of moves from a position …
Carlsen To Play So For Fischer Random World Championship
The two finalist spots were decided before the blitz segment of the World Fischer Random Chess Championship today. Wesley So needed only three fast-rapid games against Ian Nepomniachtchi to book his seat in the title match, but there was plenty of drama, including one replay, two arbiter interventions and an appeals-committee ruling. The tension in the spotlight Magnus …
Carlsen, So Lead World Fischer Random Championship
The deadlock in the World Fischer Random Chess Championship was broken today in both semifinals. The top seed and favorite Magnus Carlsen earned a second win with Black over Fabiano Caruana to take the lead in the match. Wesley So blanked a moody Ian Nepomniachtchi to take a commanding six-point lead in their duel. That gap …
The Final Test Begins In The World Fischer Random Chess Championship
Both semifinal matches ended in deadlock after day one – tied 3-3 after a pair of ‘slow rapid’ duels. In terms of entertainment, Fischer Random at the very highest level delivered. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Wesley So traded punches in two violent brawls that both ended in perpetual check. The spotlight match had to be the …
