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Sorting Japanese is not only difficult—it’s an unsolved problem. This seems hard to believe if you are not familiar with the complexities of processing Japanese digitally. But what is trivially easy in English is impossible in Japanese, even with the amount of computer power we have available today.
I am mostly a backend developer, but every now and then I need to do some frontend work. Even if just for personal use.
A comprehensive guide on how to write good documentation for your code and libraries
Some personal reflections about the evolution and death or programming languages. By the forces a circumstances, I had to reverse engineer and decommission a few Perl scripts in an old company earl…
Code that shows how floating point arithmetic can go wrong, and how C and C++ can return different results for similar code.
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
A paper on debugging non-deterministic concurrency issues interactively.
I have always wanted the Cone compiler to be fast. Faster build times make it easier and more pleasant for the programmer to iterate and experiment quickly. Compilers built for speed, such as Turbo Pascal, D and Go, win praise and loyalty. Languages that struggle more with this, like C++ or Rust, get regular…
There's a lot going on behind the scenes, since I am not only writing the books; at the same time I have to create the software to write about. For example, ...
Cedarwood is an effort to speed up jieba-rs , an efficient implementation of trie is needed in order to satisfying the following needs.
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
Serde is one of the most popular Rust crates, and deservedly so. If you aren't familiar, Serde describes itself as "a framework for serializing and deserializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically." What is most impressive to me is how robust the Serde data model has proven to be, allowing it to support…
While Full-text-search is famous for search through documents at a faster rate, there are other interesting ways in which these systems handle scale, synonyms, abbreviations, misspellings etc., we will
Solving problems by identifying underlying systems
A “Feature of Last Resort” (FOLR) is a useful feature which solves certain otherwise hard-to-solve problems, but are often best avoided.
In episode 1 of the Swift Community Podcast, Chris Lattner, Garric Nahapetian, and John Sundell talked about the origins and the current state of Swift. This is an edited transcript of the most interesting parts of the conversation.
A great moment has arrived. We are going to apply our neural networks implementation to a regression problem. The network is going to learn a known function,...
The stage has been set for wrapping up the simplest version of a complete neural network API, and its key part that offers the entry for the /learning/ funct...
Software rots. That is: Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don't like to admit this, but open so…
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When all you have is a hammer, everything in the world starts to look like a nail. Twenty five years of doing analysis and helping others do analysis has shown me that there are at least three diff…
The current article describes a series of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Garbage Collectors (GC) micro-benchmarks and their results, using a different set of patterns. For the current issue, I included all Garbage Collectors from AdoptOpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM version 13 (build 13+33) :
