The case for criminalizing scientific misconduct(chris-said.io)

3 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 2 comments

Optimizers need a rethink(typesanitizer.com)

132 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

Can GPT pass my programming courses?(lemire.me)

27 points by greghn 3 years ago | 40 comments

I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data(vidarholen.net)

376 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 148 comments

Blog post recounting how the author spent weeks hand-optimizing assembly for a Java platform, only to find the gains came from benchmarking on unrealistic random data.

Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark(lemire.me)

146 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 86 comments

How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? (2017)(lemire.me)

87 points by burntcaramel 3 years ago | 41 comments