Robert Knight

Software developer.
@robertknight2.bsky.social, @[email protected]

OCR and ML in Rust -

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

I can write my own review skills to help identify these, but I think the issues are general enough that it would be great if this was a focus for upcoming releases.

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@claudeai I find that a significant proportion of code review comments I leave at work are around issues with documentation (code comments, docstrings, docs) written by Claude, much more so than issues with the code itself.

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My latest books cartoon for @GuardianBooks
Many more here: https://t.co/LRRw29BKvG

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continueFromHereClaude

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@geofflangdale Does "everything and anything else" include changing the behavior of the program (outside of undefined behavior)? IME that is the major constraint that compilers have compared to humans. Human optimizations often change behavior slightly (but in ways that don't materially matter)

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@lemire Do you know if any of the cloud vendors are going to offer Arm chips with SME/SME2 any time soon?

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@pshufb What are the main issues with it?

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@ashvardanian Did you find a good policy for when to use SVE vs NEON, if SVE isn't always a win?

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@gvanrossum This opens in Keynote now. Thanks!

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@tmikov @awesomekling @dhh One change from 15 years ago is that social media engagement-baiting has become much more optimized, so this kind of drama tends to get spread and amplified more.

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@bcrow Thanks, that looks good!

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

Someone sent a patch for my JS implementation of the TeX linebreaking algorithm, and now I'm stumbling through the original TeX source (a 25K LOC file called tex.web) to try to figure out how it handled a particular situation.

Send thoughts and prayers.

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Bad news -- I'm not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation demands. If anyone has any leads for roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@mitchellh Which project(s) were you compiling that prompted the tweet?

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

I wrote a progress report / retrospective on the RTen machine learning runtime in 2024, looking at the added features and progress towards performance parity with more mature runtimes: https://t.co/UrvRsailFd

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@laurencerowe @jordwalke My FB experience and X experiences have been similar. FB used to be a useful place to see what my IRL friends have been up to. Recently it has been full of suggested content I didn't ask to see.

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

RTen v0.14 has been released. It adds examples for Whisper speech recognition and RMBG background removal, plus compatibility with tokenizers exported by the latest version of Hugging Face Transformers - https://t.co/TzOdHIYAt0

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

When starring a repo, it would be cool for maintainers if users could provide context on why it is interesting ("I really need a FooBar implementation for my XYZ project")

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

The onslaught of unhinged political content in my Twitter feed got a bit much over the weekend. This prompted me to take another look at Bluesky (https://t.co/gOExiAYAIN). My first impressions are quite positive.

[Robert Knight @robknight_]

@tonofcrates The use of MathJax for rendering the HTML version has the unfortunate consequence of breaking copying and searching text amongst other things (https://t.co/i5tUGWEnvo, https://t.co/fje7aNCPv5). I really wish that had been given higher priority.