Daily Shaarli

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December 15, 2022

The problem with overestimating AI — pnw.ai
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A few months old but a good piece to put things in perspective after the recent craze around large language models in general and GPT in particular. Noteworthy is the "wishful mnemonics" phrase mentioned and how it impacts the debate. Let's have less talks about AIs and more about SALAMIs please?

Auto-vectorization: How to get beaten by compiler optimization — Java JIT!

Don't underestimate performance of the generated code when a JIT is in the picture. Very good example with the JVM just there.

Faster hardware is a bad first solution to slow software
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Don't bank it all on faster hardware, make sure your software isn't slow first. Otherwise it'll bring quite some hidden costs.

How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
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Interesting ideas for a proper RSS renaissance.

mold: A Modern Linker 🦠
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Interesting new linker, should shorten build time quite a bit for large projects.