Victor Celer

Assembly programmer | Lifelong learner | Developing compilers, emulators, virtual machines | MSc in Artificial intelligence @kpiua | @CelerSMS founder

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@CelerSms Here's a bit of history explaining why so much effort was spent optimizing the CelerXML library
https://t.co/rLsbVP2vGZ

[CelerSMS @CelerSms]

CelerXML v1.0.2 released!

CelerXML is our open source lightweight XML parser for Java, supporting StAX, SAX and SAX2.

What's new in v1.0.2:
• Optimization to reduce memory footprint by ~5% and classloading time.
• The benchmark source code and reports are included.

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

AI is a tool. Using AI is like using a calculator or a computer. When you get used writing letters in a word processor, doing computations in a spreadsheet, testing your code online, having to do the same without a computer becomes a huge challenge.

[CelerSMS @CelerSms]

A study reveals that "after just 10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it".

[Vladimir Kameñar @KamenarVladimir]

Daniel P. Oran, the author of the Start Menu and Taskbar, did a lot of scientific research. His publications have hundreds of citations. Accomplished people frequently prefer a low profile.

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!"

Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming.

He named the paper "Claude's Cycles."

31 explorations. ~1 hour. Knuth read the output, wrote the formal proof, and closed with: "It seems I'll have to revise my opinions about generative AI one of these days."

The man who wrote the bible of computer science just said that. In a paper named after an AI.

Paper: https://t.co/juSOmK9vOt

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@krzyzanowskim Since version 5.0 Visual Basic supports building native executables, which can run perfectly fine in the latest Windows 11.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

C Code to Assembly.

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@davepl1968 The VB6LINK tool is only 2Kb without compression. This tool is used to inject import libraries when building a native executable in Visual Basic 6.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Here's my 1995 code to Windows Task Manager that draws the "green graph paper" of the CPU and Memory graphs. Not complicated by any stretch!

But now that I'm older and wiser, I'd likely build a small 12x12 DIBSection cell with the grid lines baked in, turn it into a pattern brush, SetBrushOrgEx with the scroll offset, and then a simple FillRect. That's one GDI op versus hundreds of lines.

Got an even better way? Let me know what I SHOULD have done!

[Vladimir Kameñar @KamenarVladimir]

Before GUI and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) technology, we had to use the imagination to visualize how the document will look like on paper, before printing, then print in econofast mode a few times to "preview" the document.

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@h_gayner By mere observation

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

The open-source PureBasic OpenAL SDK was updated. The new version supports the latest PureBasic release for Windows. It is also compatible with the original OpenAL v1.0 and v1.1 and OpenAL Soft.

[Vladimir Kameñar @KamenarVladimir]

@CelerVictor @CelerSms The latest PureBasic OpenAL SDK supports the latest #PureBasic release. It was tested up to PureBasic v6.20 LTS. It was also tested successfully for compatibility with OpenAL Soft, an LGPL-licensed software implementation of the #OpenAL 3D audio API.

[CelerSMS @CelerSms]

📚ImpLib SDK updated to v2.0.1.
What's new:
• Support LLVM linker (lld-link)
• Optimization to produce more compact import lib files
• Optimization to speed up the compilation (~5x times faster than previous version)
• Added a Win64 example using GCC

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@DavidEGrayson @x86matthew I'd also like to know the details. The results are amazing!

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Unsealed court documents from February 5th, 2024, in Kadrey v. Meta show Meta (formerly Facebook) illegally torrented 81.7TB of data from "shadow libraries" such as Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen to train Meta artificial intelligence.

Highlights include:
- A senior AI research at Meta says, "I don't think we should use pirated material. I really need to draw a line there."

- Another AI researcher says, "using pirated material should be beyond our ethical threshold" ... "SciHub, ResearchGate, LibGen are basically like PirateBay or something like that, they are distributing content that is protectec by copyright and they're infringing it".

- In January 2023, Mark Zuckerberg attends a meeting which is heavily redacted in court documents. However, he says "we need to this move this stuff forward" and "we need to find a way to unblock all of this".

- Fast forward to April, 2023, Meta employees discuss using a VPN to conceal Meta IP address ranges when torrenting data. Meta employees also discuss the need to involve lawyers if something goes astray. The unredacted court records show a Meta employee saying, "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right 😂".

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Try not to cringe level: IMPOSSIBLE

[CelerSMS @CelerSms]

📚ImpLib SDK updated to v2.0.0.
What's new:
• Support x64 DLL import libraries
• Win32 samples updated to support older 32-bit MS linker versions
• Added examples using GNU Linker (LD)
• Added GCC examples

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@KamenarVladimir @mikejt4 @vxunderground I started using IDA Pro while working for MS a few decades ago. IDA and SoftICE were the most powerful RE tools available.

[Victor Celer @CelerVictor]

@K_Olexiy @ken93511 @KamenarVladimir @CelerSms It may be necessary to do content adaptation (adjusting the size of the pictures) depending on the device capabilities. Alternatively, you can try to use small files compatible with older devices. I've seen marketing campaigns reusing the same MMS file for millions of users.