Amara Emerson

I work on compilers for a fruit company. Or fruit for a compiler company, can’t remember which.

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After almost 5 years at a great compiler team at Apple, I’m thrilled to announce that tomorrow I will be heading into work as usual. Probably around 10-11am depending on traffic.

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@k4eo @sudox7 Compiler has no idea what the runtime behavior is going to be, so conditional branches vs if-conversion decision is a crapshoot.

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@jfbastien @pikuma @CompileExplore We have operator overloading at home…

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@winocm @jonmasters Unless I’m missing something, that’s the SME version which isn’t regular SIMD/NEON.

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Domestic appliances: clothes and dishwashers, have done more to improve the lives of people than any computers have. Hug your appliances, even if they’re front loaders.

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@jon_roelofs @never_released "I generated them all! And not just the blog posts, but the TRM and data sheets too!"

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...but when wood first yields to metal, one more thing is made: and that is the sculptor.”

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“The initiate was only half-right,” said Bawan to the emptiness. “True, the value lies not in carven oak, but neither does it lie in the shape of the carving; for both the real pillar and the virtual one may be lost, and the temple will be no poorer...

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Of course growing up drinking fluoridated water may have impaired my ability to assess the evidence. Feel free to refute me and at the same time assuage my worries over lost cognitive powers.

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Attempting to refute a fluoride conspiracy on Reddit a year ago I went down the rabbit hole of literature on the subject. Unfortunately I ended up changing my mind on the subject, a meta study from the NIH shows adverse affects on IQ across 30 studies: https://t.co/M1eyAT6FIP

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Is there any way to talk to someone at Google about Google One & family sharing? The user experience is just so much worse than iCloud family sharing and plain doesn’t work in some cases.

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As of tomorrow I will not be working at OpenAI.

I wasn't anyway, but I won't be tomorrow as well.

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@d_feldman I think that Popek & Goldberg's "Formal Requirements for Virtualizable Third Generation Architectures" was a more important paper, way back in the 70s. It defines the requirements that the CPU architecture needed for full virtualization to be possible https://t.co/q5AEuJJMkQ

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I won’t be impressed by any AI coding LLM until it can sort out the mess that is the compiler-rt cmake build system. Once it can do that we know we have AGI.

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@_saagarjha That’s just like, your opinion, man.

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@_saagarjha This is your engineer -> YouTube content creator origin story.

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@stephentyrone @_saagarjha Anyway, enough about loop strength reduce.

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@stephentyrone @_saagarjha LSR would be fine if they stopped at places people actually need to fucking go to without having to rent a car/call an Uber to go the last 2 miles.

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@anothercohen @vijayswamidass Lol what.

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when you spent the last few months learning linear algebra to get up to speed w AI & now you have to learn condensed matter physics