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Doing Everyone Else's Job(yosefk.com)

184 points by luu 1 month ago | 88 comments

All means are fair except solving the problem(yosefk.com)

70 points by akkartik 5 months ago | 48 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C (2024)(yosefk.com)

79 points by hun3 9 months ago | 13 comments

The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)(yosefk.com)

59 points by signa11 1 year ago | 34 comments

LLMs aren't world models(yosefk.com)

330 points by ingve 1 year ago | 189 comments

Blog post by Yossi Kreinin arguing that large language models are not world models, illustrated with examples like LLMs losing track of chess board state.

0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance(yosefk.com)

139 points by ingve 1 year ago | 78 comments

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)

101 points by homebrewer 1 year ago | 25 comments

People can read their manager's mind (2015)(yosefk.com)

189 points by luu 2 years ago | 57 comments

Profiling with Ctrl-C(yosefk.com)

66 points by jstanley 2 years ago | 29 comments

Advantages of incompetent management(yosefk.com)

451 points by zdw 2 years ago | 216 comments

A July 2024 blog essay by Yossi Kreinin arguing that competent management makes some desirable outcomes, like efficiency, harder to achieve than incompetent management does.

SIMD < SIMT < SMT: Parallelism in Nvidia GPUs (2011)(yosefk.com)

127 points by shipp02 2 years ago | 34 comments

Refix: Fast, Debuggable, Reproducible Builds(yosefk.com)

99 points by luu 2 years ago | 34 comments

Do call yourself a programmer, and other career advice (2013)(yosefk.com)

29 points by luu 2 years ago | 7 comments

Bad scientific code beats code following "best practices" (2014)(yosefk.com)

204 points by luu 2 years ago | 261 comments

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)

70 points by sph 3 years ago | 68 comments

I can't believe I'm praising Tcl (2008)(yosefk.com)

67 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 26 comments