I like to make things to help me break things. Tinkerer of all things related to computers.
Joined January 2014
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Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
Alysa Liu recently went viral for her Teen Vogue rant on MMX.
“Most Pentium MMX vectorization was premature micro-optimization & aged poorly. The same code rewritten a few years later with streaming SIMD or even compiled automatically often outperformed it with far less effort.”
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
Parallel, Concurrent and Distributed Programming
ilyasergey.net/YSC4231/
This course on basic concurrent and parallel algorithms has been taught by Ilya Sergey at Yale-NUS College in 2019-2024.
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
The number of people actually doing perf work is far far lower than the number of people using a systems lang and virtue signaling about perf on twitter
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
tldraw’s backend runs off of a Dell PowerEdge R440 that I shoplifted in 2013. electricity from the city. nothing is cheaper than free
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
I’d like to introduce the Big Mac Index for tech 2024.
The Split Keyboard Index.
When it goes up it means there is more serious engineers in the field.
When it goes down it means a good year for vercel.
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
Reading a systems paper:
"Oh yeah, this makes sense"
"Oh wow! I didn't know this"
Reading an AI/ML paper:
"WTF is this equation saying"
"What do they mean here"
"Where did they define this symbol",
"What is this new term, do I need to read another paper?!"
Chandrasekaran Akash retweeted
Yo I fucking hate university culture so much "ooga booga me want internship me get internship me code monkey corpo slop for big tech me no know how to produce a single original thought jane street citadel salary I want but me can't program" etc etc