Human folly for 02023-10-07

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• Specbnch (people.eecs.berkeley.edu):

  #PDF #paper by #Kahan about #floating-point being compromised in the pursuit of #performance to cheat on SPEC benchmarks

• (labs.oracle.com):

  Steele’s reminiscences about, largely, #Lisp (and how he ended up writing a Lisp 1.6 for his high school’s IBM 1130) #history

• Sparse (research.swtch.com):

  #algorithms using uninitialized memory for constant-time #performance for sparse integer sets (citing Briggs and Torczon’s 01993 paper)

• Fix your timestep (gafferongames.com):

  How to adjust your timestep in #games and interpolate movement (or extrapolate) so that your #performance problems only change the display refresh rate and not the game’s rules

• Histogram%20Filter (eecs.yorku.ca):

  nice #PDF slide deck about histogram filters, similar to #particle-filters, with Octave code to implement it. #algorithms #machine-learning

• Ar3Cqnfjmyhjictazk (social.applied-langua.ge):

  #moon-child and #rygorous discussing #GPU #floating-point and #FMA and dot products and round-to-negative vs. round-toward-zero etc.

• Nb07 (irwinsnet.github.io):

  an #IPython notebook for histogram filters, similar to #particle-filters