Simon Felix

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[Simon Felix @deiruch]

This is probably my final message on Twitter/X - I'm switching to Mastodon. See you on the other side.

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

Why are experts so often wrong?

Because we have lost track of what an expert is.

An expert is someone who has a deep experience with a given set of problems and a track record of getting things mostly right.

An experienced plumber is likely an expert at plumbing.

An expert is not someone who has studied a topic deeply. That’s a scholar not an expert.

What expert would be relevant for predicting the future of AI?

People have consistently predicted AI progress properly.

If such people exist, they are uncommon.

In fact, for many problems, there are few relevant experts.

We just don’t know. Often that’s the best answer.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov I consider async/parallel two very distinct topics. For desktop apps, I prefer to run purely async & non-blocking code with unlimited concurrency on a single UI thread, and perform parallel work on a bounded thread pool. Best of both worlds.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@DiademGames I, a small part of the vast emptiness of the internet, agree. Main point is probably whether you're code- or art-/design-driven. Case in point: Playdead switched from custom to Unity, and like it.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@thebookisclosed @_h0x0d_ What is Explorer doing for several hundred milliseconds after double-clicking a folder? Why does the volume slider visibly re-enact all volume changes since it was last shown?

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

MatMul-free LLMs appear to be significantly more energy efficient: https://t.co/FLgcBCCbg1. 10x less memory, 5x faster. Interesting!

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov And PARALLEL.ForEachAsync shouldn't be about parallelism? Huh... :)

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov Are there disadvantages to using PLINQ? Why not just use that?

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov Btw: Not a single Parallel.For/ForEach function collects & returns results.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov I use LINQ when I want to collect results. I don't think I'd want a by-default-array-allocating Parallel.ForEachAsync.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@cybersandwich @karpi Die Zeitung stellts doch ziemlich neutral dar, oder etwa nicht?

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@dcuthbert @LargeCardinal Nice paper, but the QUBO solving and Q hardware benchmark is... uhm... "not convincing". What was the classical exact algorithm? How was it implemented? Why compare a heuristic with an exact solver? How about comparing with state of the art: Gurobi, Hexaly, ...? Etc.

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@karpi Mit welchem Ziel? Bessere Regulierung? Fair trAIne? Nur noch Produkte von Unternehmen mit freilaufenden GPUs kaufen? nVidia Maxwell Havelaar?

[Tom Francis 🔜🪦 @Pentadact]

"Stop what you're doing, you're late for a meeting I've just decided starts immediately. Here, lemme set off a siren in your home until you join."

Phonecalls are wild.

[alz @alz_zyd_]

It's only consciousness if it's from the Sapiens species of the Homo genus, otherwise it's just glorified pattern matching

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@andrewlocknet There's no need to call remove(). Should run faster without it. It's no problem to process the same city twice.

[Rico Mariani @ricomariani]

It's a bit of a rant but it has a link to a really useful article from Herb Sutter in it and some of my opinions might be illuminating :D

https://t.co/x2imFASt13

[Simon Felix @deiruch]

@STeplyakov Hmm. Other impls beat the native impl for common cases: https://t.co/vqfdhE0QGc