andy thomason

Games and bioinformatics

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Another meetup in Oxford introducing #rustlang : More Rust - Generics constraints and safety.

https://t.co/dQh5dD7eUP

At the St. Aldate's Tavern, Oxford from 6ish.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

There is a meeting of Oxford Rust upstairs in the St. Aldates tavern 6.30 Wednesday 20th March. #oxford #rustlang

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@rakitadragan I think this would be the best way anyone could learn the Ethereum ecosystem from the ground up.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Christer is right. The best edit command is delete, not something that is done often in architecture or in software development.

[🙊Christer Ericson @ChristerEricson]

I greatly dislike the software vs building architecture comparison.

Architecture is rigid, set in stone (literally), fully defined at the start, never-changing.

Software is ever-changing, in a competitive landscape, and the best approach is highly nimble/changeable code.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@m_ou_se The biggest effect you notice is in cold code performance which drops significantly with code size. The multi megabyte executables we see today spend most of their time fetching instructions which will not be executed. I measured this in game engines a few years ago.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Not to blow our own trumpet. But thanks to everyone who has contributed to the success of extendr in bridging the R-Rust frontier.

[R Consortium @RConsortium]

Andy Thomason, code performance consultant and lecturer at @LondonU, shares about his ISC-funded project Extendr. The Extendr package is a safe and user-friendly R extension interface for using @rustlang. Read more ➡️ https://t.co/F0y7TEPQ1I | #Rstats #Rprogramming

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@alexjc Just curiously, I guess. You reach the point where you could do a better job of any library you encounter, but then you have no time.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

British politics in action.

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

The way that a voting district is carved out from a population can be exploited to mathematically determine its outcome. https://t.co/92t9JBnBDY

[DeSciWorld @DeSciWorld]

Decentralised storage is the most foundational component of DeSci, so why decentralise?

Nice discussion from the guys at Peerspace!

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@fbuontempo @KevlinHenney An evil person would take it over and dry their hands any time they liked.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@Lucretiel Unroll the loop 15 times.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@mike_acton Recommendation algorithms are designed for people who always like the same stuff.

Sadly, many of us fail these expectations.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Rust?

[https://mastodon.social/@vitaut @vzverovich]

Should std::string_view be renamed to std::use_after_free or std::dangling_reference?

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Still so proud of this monstrosity. Minutes after writing it, I forgot how it works, and that knowledge remains thankfully lost to me to this day

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

On Saturday, Maria and I attended a course on post mortem preparation with cryonics UK, a volunteer organisation to support human preservation.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

@EMBYRDEV I don't know about Unreal 5, but the original Unreal used a unity build with only a small number of modules. The result was a much much smaller build time and code size. Perhaps they have abandoned this now.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

As research for my book on high performance Rust programming, here is a tiny example of a custom Rust allocator:

https://t.co/B3duU2eG9q

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Remembering DJ Derek. The leading expert in black music from Bristol and lovely chap.

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...

[andy thomason @quaternioso]

I've just ordered @hatcat01 @gregcons 's book: https://t.co/1Ok0v2xNI0

I look forward to reading it.