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Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture
Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture publishes 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to the science and art of designing, analyzing, selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create computers that meet functional, performance and cost goals. The scope will largely follow the purview of premier computer architecture conferences, such as ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, and ASPLOS.
comparch  microarch  compsci 
december 2009 by domnit
Leonid Domnitser
Look, I have a mostly empty academic page! It will scroll on for miles with lots of great papers, just not yet.
me  academia  compsci 
july 2009 by domnit
Stevey's Blog Rants: The Universal Design Pattern
Finally got through Steve Yegge's detailed description of the Property Pattern.
compsci  software 
october 2008 by domnit
Python generators are really just objects
Demo for a discussion I had with my PL prof.
python  compsci  complang 
march 2008 by domnit
Back to Basics - Joel on Software
Bookmarked for reference to the phrase "Shlemiel the Painter's Algorithm", meaning an O(n^2) algorithm that should be O(n).
compsci  language  humor 
february 2008 by domnit
Alarming Development : Dispatches from the Programmer Liberation Front
Subtext creator Jonathan Edwards's blog. There are some subtext posts for me to read in here.
subtext  toread  blogs  compsci 
february 2008 by domnit
Stevey's Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b
"the bigger problem is cultural: it's hard to restrain metadata addiction"
complang  compsci  java  metadata 
february 2008 by domnit
Google wants your phonemes
"The reason we really did [GOOG-411] is because we need to build a great speech-to-text model ... that we can use for all kinds of different things, including video search."
google  search  compsci  business 
december 2007 by domnit
Sneaky overflow bug in most binary searches
(n + m) / 2, n,m>0 can overflow and leave a negative "average". Use (n + m) >>> 1.
compsci  reference  bug 
september 2007 by domnit
Image and Depth from a Conventional Camera with a Coded Aperture
"an optical element alters the incident light array so that the image captured by the sensor is not the final desired image but is coded to facilitate the extraction of information"
photo  graphics  light  compsci 
august 2007 by domnit
The camel has two humps
Consistency of mental model about inherent meaninglessness of a program to a computer as an indicator of ability to learn programming
compsci  psychology  education 
july 2007 by domnit
Georgia Tech/IBM Announce New Chip Speed Record
Silicon-germanium transistor at 500 GHz at 4.5 Kelvins
compsci  hardware  cpu  engineering  cold 
june 2007 by domnit
Bug 10863 - Storing large integers with GM_setValue overflows
Bookmarked because this will bite me in the ass eventually
greasemonkey  bug  math  compsci 
january 2007 by domnit
The Rule of Least Power
"Principle: Powerful languages inhibit information reuse."
web  w3c  compsci  philosophy  design  language  complang  power  scalability 
december 2006 by domnit
Good Math, Bad Math : Nullity - the Nonsense Number
Some twat in the UK is teaching kids a made up number, and the BBC picked it up as a legitimate story. I've been looking for a good rant about it, and this seems to be the best one.
math  compsci  media  education 
december 2006 by domnit
Joel on Software: Book Review: Beyond Java
"it’s starting to look like type declarations are one of those accidental difficulties that good programming languages can eliminate"
compsci  books  java  complang 
october 2006 by domnit
Python else Clauses on Loops
"Loop statements may have an else clause; it is executed when the loop terminates through exhaustion of the list (with for) or when the condition becomes false (with while), but not when the loop is terminated by a break statement."
python  compsci  complang 
september 2006 by domnit
Can Your Programming Language Do This?
Functional programming abstracts away massively parallel computation
compsci  functional  complang  concurrent 
august 2006 by domnit
Download Pi
Silly idea which is useful in a parallel universe where storage and/or processing are way cheaper than bandwidth
internet  compsci  math  copyright  pi 
may 2006 by domnit
YA anti-PHP rant
Argues that PHP is a bloated template system. Right on.
php  design  compsci  complang 
february 2006 by domnit
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