Computer Science 💻

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

LLMs don't choose words, they roll dice

Every next token gets a score → logits ÷ temperature → softmax → sample

- T=0.2: "mat" 99.6% of the time
- T=1.0: the model's raw odds
- T=2.0: the long tail wakes up "The cat sat on the… banana"

Same Score and Model, Different dice.

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

If an L1 cache hit took 1 second:

- L2 cache: 4 s
- L3 cache: 12 s
- RAM: 1.7 min
- NVMe SSD read: 1.2 days
- Packet US → Europe → US: 4.8 years

Your CPU spends most of its life waiting. That's why caches, prefetching and data locality beat clever code.

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

There is no single "stock market" order book

Your order → broker (FIX msg) → smart order router → a dozen+ exchanges & dark pools, each running its own matching engine

The SIP stitches their quotes into the NBBO. HFTs skip it: direct feeds, colocated servers, microwave links

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@BilalAhmed_358 @JoinBlind This is currently the state of big tech lmao

Not a single person is safe

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

LGTM

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

If we don't keep raising awareness of low-level programming skills, the skillset will disppear forever under a sea of SDKs, binary blobs and proprietary chips.

C programming matters, assembly language matters.

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@Monstercat Third year in a row now.. I sense a trend...

🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for the music!

[herm1t @vx_herm1t]

Just hacked into ru ransomware gang confluence :-)

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

whyCppWhy https://t.co/rFbStJJPWh

[Aman Khandelwal @_wolfblunt]

Programmers have a unique perspective on the world. Simple things like the time 4:04 take on a whole different meaning. To most, it's just the time, but to a developer, it's a 'not found' status.

@engineers_feed @Computerworld @geeksforgeeks
@ComputerScience @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R

[Yubico | #YubiKey @Yubico]

We have gotten a lot of questions about how to add a security key to your @Twitter account for #2FA. Here is a video walk though that shows the individual steps and how easy it is to set up a #YubiKey.

https://t.co/9bEACMPmlj

#securitykey #twitter

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@GrahamStephan @MKBHD @elonmusk @Yubico :)

https://t.co/761hlVKN7M

[Yubico | #YubiKey @Yubico]

We have gotten a lot of questions about how to add a security key to your @Twitter account for #2FA. Here is a video walk though that shows the individual steps and how easy it is to set up a #YubiKey.

https://t.co/9bEACMPmlj

#securitykey #twitter

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@GrahamStephan @MKBHD @elonmusk @Yubico It's used as the government standard for multiple governments, it's used as the standard at every tech company in existence, and it's even got a biometric version. No reliance on your mobile device.

https://t.co/PwfFx8Ob8X

[FX Networks @FXNetworks]

FX’s The Bear S2 premieres early summer, with 10 episodes. Only on @hulu. 🐻🥫#TheBearFX @TheBearFX

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

my typical day at Google:
9am - reverse a linked list
11am - count unique ways to climb a staircase with dp
12pm - lunch
3pm - help animal escape NxM matrix efficiently
4pm - invert a binary tree
5pm - commute home using Dijkstra's

[valerie szybala. @vszyb]

Anyone wondering why I felt compelled to take this to social media, check out my most recent chat with one of their support reps through the @united app:

[Mashable @mashable]

Very good little robot teaches itself to walk

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@nevmed Didn't realize that many people knew about log4j 🤣

[Computer Science 💻 @ComputerScience]

@PiaRibes @thewinteranon @AtheistSpinster @BlackKnight10k @dylanleclair UTC time is commonly used as a "standard" in tech simply as a way to make sure everyone is discussing the same time, and thats typically how we store it in databases to prevent further confusion of timestamps in tech. (Which is a huge deal/problem believe it or not 😂)