Interactive Linear Programming in the Browser(lpviz.net)
68 points by klamike | 3 comments
lpviz is a browser-based interactive tool for visualizing and solving linear programming problems on a 2D/3D graph canvas.
#optimization on Hacker News
12 stories tagged optimization, newest first.
Communication Between the Compiler, the Build System, and Beyond(shrub.industries)
17 points by shrub900 | 3 comments
A personal essay arguing that compilers, build systems, and package managers in POSIX-like operating systems fail to share dependency and resource information, missing optimization opportunities.
The Heilbronn Problem(math.tejstead.com)
60 points by tejstead | 12 comments
A website collecting the best known point configurations for the Heilbronn triangle problem in squares, triangles, and convex regions, with coordinates and an in-browser verifier.
Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)(asawicki.info)
164 points by ibobev | 127 comments
Adam Sawicki's article, originally published in Programista magazine in 2013, on practices for writing efficient, high-performance C++ code.
Missile defense is NP-complete(smu160.github.io)
353 points by O3marchnative | 367 comments
Blog post arguing that allocating missile interceptors is an NP-complete resource allocation problem, starting with single-shot kill probability of interceptors.
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)
942 points by vismit2000 | 437 comments
A university course page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes relating them to Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks.
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Algorithms for Optimization [pdf](algorithmsbook.com)
336 points by Anon84 | 29 comments
PDF of the second edition of the textbook "Algorithms for Optimization" by Kochenderfer and Wheeler.
Playing in the Creek(hgreer.com)
328 points by c1ccccc1 | 110 comments
A LessWrong linkpost of Hastings' personal essay "Playing in the Creek," which starts from childhood memories of damming a backyard creek.
Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()(iquilezles.org)
395 points by romes | 192 comments
Inigo Quilez article correcting the misconception that GPU conditionals should be replaced with mix() and step() in shader code.
Lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012)(stevehanov.ca)
359 points by Kerrick | 153 comments
Steve Hanov's 2012 blog post arguing that a short epsilon-greedy multi-armed bandit algorithm outperforms traditional A/B testing.
Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming(quantamagazine.org)
443 points by pseudolus | 176 comments
Quanta Magazine article on researchers finding a much faster algorithm for integer linear programming, approaching a theoretical speed limit.
Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory(arxiv.org)
412 points by Anon84 | 132 comments
arXiv listing for a book by Jentzen, Kuckuck, and von Wurstemberger giving a mathematically rigorous introduction to deep learning methods, implementations, and theory.