Charles L Wilcox

#BostonCpp Meetup Organizer; Software Engineer; Systems Administrator; Computer Scientist; Student; Human

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

NASA unveils its X-59 quiet supersonic jet https://t.co/Xa2XoZqsFm via @scrippsnews

[FEMA @fema]

IMPORTANT: On Wednesday, Oct. 4th at 2:20 p.m. ET, there will be a nationwide emergency alert test on cell phones, wireless devices, radios, and TVs.

This is a standard test that occurs at least once every three years. No action is needed.

Info & FAQs: https://t.co/KKyrIr4e03

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The first victim of LLM, the first job to go, is that of copy editor.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Rocket reusability enables increased reliability and launch cadence

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship's flight test window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT tomorrow; a live webcast will begin ~45 minutes before liftoff → https://t.co/bG5tsCUanp

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@lefticus Babylon 5: War Without End (Part I and II)
https://t.co/YFJqpXsN2D

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@ciura_victor Why didn't `i+=+1` get any love?

[PVS-Studio @pvs_studio]

We wrote 50 terrible coding tips. They are for those C++ developers who do everything the other way round.

Are you not one of them? Awesome! We invite you reading these tips anyway — they may help your team avoid future code bugs. Click the link: https://t.co/Z0O1yj1PGu

#Cpp

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@blelbach @KevlinHenney "Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) reaches End of Life on February 4 2016"
https://t.co/tMQdQNtFP4

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@TheCriticalDri2 Every time I hear you say "Don't know", I think of Aughra
https://t.co/uE8Stz4y8C

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, marking the 100th successful landing of an orbital class rocket booster!

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@MichaelCaisse Can't wait to see what's next. 😃

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

"Stochastic rounding ... enables statistical parameter updates ... very small values are accumulated into larger values, and such updates would not happen with IEEE rounding modes. [It] is also useful in various training computes to add random noise to prevent regularization"

[Tesla @Tesla]

Dojo whitepaper https://t.co/4PgUGuXE0a

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@ipapadop I see an accessible destructor; does this type get exported to your clients?

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

Seen in C++ code today:
delete this;

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

The greatest risk bearer shall be the decision maker
#SkinInTheGame

[Charles L Wilcox @CharlesLWilcox]

@ipapadop @mhoemmen If your embedded programs build from scratch, don't link in third party libraries, and don't ship as third party libraries, maybe this approach is feasible?
https://t.co/2zIlCgAjdY

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Tesla AI Day showed incredible engineering at all levels: AI hardware for inference & training, neural net design innovation, data, tools, auto-labeling & long-term vision for future of robotics. Here's a quick video I made on the key ideas presented: https://t.co/94ydBp2J3y

[Tesla @Tesla]

Tesla AI Day presentation streaming live from https://t.co/shRnZSwgd4 at 5pm Pacific today