Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem (2021)(matt-rickard.com)

49 points by ingve 3 years ago | 18 comments

Optimisation-dependent IR decisions in Clang(convolv.es)

37 points by luu 2 years ago | 0 comments

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?(dylancastillo.co)

632 points by dcastm 3 months ago | 237 comments

Blog post investigating whether AI labs are optimizing their LLMs for Simon Willison's 'SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' informal benchmark.

Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search(fremaconsulting.ch)

53 points by tohms 4 months ago | 4 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Recent Optimizations in Python's Reference Counting(rushter.com)

16 points by f311a 9 months ago | 4 comments