Why use ECC?
Jeff Atwood, perhaps the most widely read programming blogger, has a post that makes a case against using ECC memory. My read is that his major...
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What’s worked in Computer Science: 1999 v. 2015
In 1999, Butler Lampson gave a talk about the past and future of “computer systems research”. Here are his opinions from 1999 on “what worked”. Yes...
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Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.
The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at...
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Infinite disk
Hardware performance “obviously” affects software performance and affects how software is optimized. For example, the fact that caches are multiple orders of magnitude faster than RAM...
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