Sam Estep

SE PhD student @S3DatCMU | 10x pun engineer | he/him

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

how well do you understand how your computer's cache hierarchy affects your programs' performance? https://t.co/VQdObbJK6O

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

My collaborator Troels (creator of the Futhark programming language) published a really nice blog post today about a benchmark suite we've been developing for automatic differentiation; the project makes some cool design decisions, check it out! https://t.co/jDLBOknhCm

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

@joshmpollock i am not a post

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

your computer uses binary to represent numbers, including random ones! but have you ever wondered how it can simulate a fair die whose number of faces is not a power of two? https://t.co/7jcmvVAPOa

[Wode "Nimo" Ni @wodenimoni]

took the idea of “run the layout optimizer again when interacting with the diagram” pretty far this summer. Bloom is a React library for interactive diagrams. It lets you reuse the diagram styling just like Penrose, but in a general-purpose programming language.

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

Great work by the @UsePenrose team building Bloom: a lightweight way to make interactive diagrams: https://t.co/He3YRCmbmy

All coordinates are automatically figured out by the Penrose layout engine, and diagram specifications can be re-used for different content (like HTML/CSS).

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

generally?

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

Very proud of my group @GeomCollective, for their consistent focus on quality in research.

We have 5 papers at #SIGGRAPH2024, including two Best Paper Awards and one Honorable Mention.

Only 5 and 12 such awards (respectively) are given out total, from a pool of ~840 submissions

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

want consistent math formatting across github and vscode? give this issue an upvote! https://t.co/DCcYS4RAi5

[adam 🇺🇸 @personofswag]

You'll soon find out that some Linux distros are better than others Potter

[Ian McCormack @icmccorm]

We interviewed 19 Rust developers who regularly write or edit unsafe code. Now, we need your help to evaluate what we learned! If you have ever engaged with unsafe Rust, please consider completing our survey!

https://t.co/JEc4hLfPVu

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

genuinely curious: why do some conferences use a one-column layout? isn't two-column just better?

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

@TitzerBL yeah i think so

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

@kentcdodds unless it's an eslint plugin

[Penrose @UsePenrose]

Penrose is an open-source tool for making beautiful diagrams from any domain of knowledge.

Want help using it? Want to help us build it? Or just want to talk about diagramming in general?

Come chat with us on @Discord at https://t.co/aZQyZNp2Nn. Anyone & everyone is welcome!

[Wode "Nimo" Ni @wodenimoni]

We've been on a somewhat private slack forever. About time to work in the open for real, so join us there!

[Wode "Nimo" Ni @wodenimoni]

been working on @UsePenrose v3 lately and it's live now! check out our blog post to see what's new: https://t.co/11VeSdL88e. special thanks to new coworker

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

Tired of making the same kind of diagrams over and over by hand (e.g., in PowerPoint)?

The @UsePenrose team has been working away on Penrose 3.0, an automated notation-to-diagram tool, finally released today!

Check it out here: https://t.co/dJNMEzrPZR

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

to be clear i'm jk i just ate a corndog did not actually get a dog

[Sam Estep @sgestep]

i just got a new dog!

dachshund/corgi cross breed

corn dog