Daniel Lemire
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
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Compressed bitmaps are not always better than uncompressed ones; there are many tradeoffs.
Their wordsCompressed bitmaps like Roaring are not always better. There are many tradeoffs.
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Their wordsThe purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
↗AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIf you hold a PhD today, your chance of having a tenure-track or tenured position is about 10% and falling.
↗AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI predict that, over time, the focus will move away from "papers as the final output."
↗AI is breaking the academic sorting machinelemire.me 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn effect, what I am demonstrating is that CPUs are not boring. They are improving fast.
↗How did Apple Silicon get 50% faster in three years?lemire.me
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Their wordsNEON has nothing like it; on x64, the closest thing is the SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions (pcmpistrm), which are slow.
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Their wordsIn many practical cases, the new std::flat_map is a better alternative to the std::map.
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semiconductorssoftware performance
Their wordsThus it appears that on the latest AMD and ARM processors subnormals might not be a concern. But they remain very much a performance issue under Intel processors.
↗Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive… on Intel processorslemire.me
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Professionals across many fields will adapt to working with AI, and that shift cannot be reversed.
Their wordsMathematicians, software developers, engineers, lawyers, physicians will all learn to work with AI. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.
↗The four-colour theorem was only the startlemire.me 1st of 3 in this piece
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mathematicsformal proofcode generation
Their wordsDifficult proofs will now be built with AI, just as most code will be written with AI.
↗The four-colour theorem was only the startlemire.me 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople who insist on pen and paper should view themselves as artists.
↗The four-colour theorem was only the startlemire.me 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThese people tend to carry a totalitarian ideology. Their ideas will only work if everyone is made to agree.
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Less technology and less wealth increase the risk of human extinction, rather than reduce it.
Their wordsIn fact, the risk of human extinction is assuredly higher if we are poorer and have less technology.
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Publicly expressing fear of AI can function as virtue signaling rather than genuine concern.
Their wordsExpressing fear of AI can become a form of virtue signaling.