Dedicated AI hardware is the way to go

The following presentation by Dr James Tour is fascinating. It presents the very early stages of what may actually be a disruptive AI technology… or a total flop. That early, there is no way to know. During the Q&A session, Dr James Tour is brutally honest about it. "I don't know yet", how powerful these … Continue reading Dedicated AI hardware is the way to go

Chat GPT comprend ma théorie!

Un ami a récemment soumis à la version payante de ChatGPT le texte en anglais de la théorie des mesures incomplètes, qu'on peut télécharger gratuitement depuis cet article. Le résultat de l'analyse a été tellement spectaculaire qu'il a décidé de le partager avec moi. À mon tour, je vous soumets ces réponses, avec mes commentaires … Continue reading Chat GPT comprend ma théorie!

Could not have written it better

Seen on github… copied here without permission, but with the intent of preservation. I'm here for software, but unfortunately, Zeitgeist politics invade this space every day.This started as a reply to the PR comment auto-linked above, but it turned into a funny blog post, and everyone needs a laugh. (And some food for thought.) If … Continue reading Could not have written it better

Progress?

Progressivists have turned the wonderful universities of times past into hateful unsafe burning pits of rage. Progressivists have turned Google from a wonderful search engine into a system to hallucinate female black popes and black nazis. Progressivists have turned Wikipedia from a wonderful collaborative tool for knowledge into a web of partisan lies where you … Continue reading Progress?

We are Rotten Flesh™

According to their own self-description on Reddit, openSUSE is for open minds. A good way to demonstrate that open-mindedness, dear fellow boiling frog, is to call political opponents bigots, hateful and rotten flesh. Faced with this, I can only pray "Lord, have mercy on them, they are just clueless". Also, a good time to re-read … Continue reading We are Rotten Flesh™

The hidden cost of exception handling

During a meeting today, a colleague of mine shared the belief that exception handling had no impact on optimizations in modern C++. While we did everything we could 20+ years ago to ensure that all kinds of optimizations were possible, there is a residual cost that you can trigger. This is section 3.8 in the … Continue reading The hidden cost of exception handling

Les idées loufoques de Christophe de Dinechin

Je viens de créer une petite liste de lecture sur YouTube concernant des idées diverses et variées sur la physique, la mécanique quantique, la relativité, etc. Ce qui aiderait cette petite chaîne toute neuve, ce serait de mettre des commentaires ou des questions sur YouTube (sachant que "2:30" dans un commentaire, ça pointe directement vers … Continue reading Les idées loufoques de Christophe de Dinechin

I will not lie to please your masters

Political correctness is a cancer of the mind. It is based on lies, and worse yet, it demands that you bow to the lies. In a very Grenouille Bouillie way, this propaganda technique has slowly invaded not just politics, but even the corporate world, and we are now at risk of losing major human rights, … Continue reading I will not lie to please your masters

The Freedom Covenant

The year 2020 has seen a massive onslaught on individual liberty, restricting or putting conditions on our movements, what we can say, what we can publish, what we can even think. This is always done ostensibly for some "greater good", but in reality to grab power. Nothing new here: in the infamous words of Saint-Just, … Continue reading The Freedom Covenant

C++: generating a native interface automatically

When you write an interpreter, it is useful to be able to connect to the underlying system easily. In this post, I will show how modern C++ makes it possible to entirely automate this process.