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Why We Need SIMD
parallelprogrammer.substack.com
tl/dr: it can deliver big performance speedups at modest area cost Why do we even need SIMD instructions?, a recent blog post by Daniel Lemire, inspired me to write this reflective post with a brief history of CPU architecture and … Read more
The death of industrial design and the era of dull electronics
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it instantly recognizable. When you think of something like a Walkman, an … Read more
The Beer Can
brr.fyi
This post is a celebration of one of my favorite bits of South Pole infrastructure. The Beer Can, or “vertical tower” in official USAP parlance, is how we move between our comfortable living zone above, and our critical infrastructure zone … Read more
The Gaslit Asset Class
James Grant invited me to address the annual conference of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer. This was an intimidating prospect, the previous year’s conference featured billionaires Scott Bessent and Bill Ackman. As usual, below the fold is the text of my … Read more
Gold hits all time high
goldprice.org
GOLDPRICE.ORGprovides you with fast loading charts of the current gold price per ounce, gram and kilogram in 160 major currencies. We provide you with timely and accurate silver and gold price commentary, gold price history charts for the past 1 … Read more
Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D
I recently purchased the textbook “Aircraft Control and Simulation” by Brian L. Stevens, Frank L. Lewis, and Eric N. Johnson1. This book covers the control and simulation of aircraft. It’s really dense and frankly hard to understand. As far as … Read more
`std::flip`
morwenn.github.iostd::flip is a little-known utility from the C++ standard library header : it is a higher-order function that accepts a Callable and returns an equivalent Callable with the order of its parameters reversed (or “flipped”). To understand how it can … Read more