Over the years, I’ve worked with many students, some now thriving in the software industry. The trait that sets the successful ones apart? Leadership. My best research assistants took initiative, helping without being prompted. Most, however, waited for me to organize their.

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Software programming is not a single occupation. Maybe it was in the 1970s, but no longer. The folks adding business rules to an Oracle database have almost nothing to do with the folks writing device drivers. I consider myself to be a system programmer. I would say that many.

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We have probably reached the point where my wife spends more time listening to ChatGPT than to listening to me.

There are more Linux gamers than macOS gamers, at least as far as the Steam store is concerned.

A colleague recently told me that "being interesting" is just a social construct. I don’t buy it. Scientific papers, for instance, are rarely interesting. Nobody reads them unless they’re forced to, and that’s not a social construct—it’s just reality. When hiring a professor, we.

Are you putting everything under git? Then you might be getting a tad obsessive-compulsive. Relax. I expect that almost all professional programmers today use version control systems for their code. But it is not actually a strict requirement. I would not be surprised to find.

I have had many friends at Intel. Fewer today due to recent firings. Yet I don't know what happened to Intel. About ten years ago. AMD was on its knees. Intel owned the markets that matters. Cloud, PCs, laptops, servers. ARM was a ridiculous competitor, only able to power

Be sustainable. I don't mean to drink from paper straws or to apply for a government grant so you can afford a Tesla. I mean that when you start something that requires a long term investment, make sure that everything is in place so that you can sustain it. I stay fit, but I.

It is a good approximation to say that we have infinite storage.

AMD has crushed Intel in the scope of ten years. From a minor play to the dominant player.

AMD is my current champion with respect to SIMD processing. The Zen 5 architecture has 4 units capable of processing 512-bit registers. There is nothing else like it out there on commodity processors. Apple processors are fantastic, but as far as SIMD processing goes, they are

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In my data warehousing courses, I tell students not to use a REAL type for money. The type INTEGER is usually fine though there are specialized types that are even more convenient. I used to take this for granted, but students, even advanced students, are often confused. This.

Andrew Ng suggests that China might overtake the US on AI. The gist of the argument is that China is leading in open models (those you can freely download) even though the US dominates overall (on the proprietary models). If Meta and Le Cun with Llama cannot keep ahead of the

If you are wondering why college degrees are less likely than ever to lead to good jobs… I submit to you that it has much to do with the increasing and very visible mediocrity of the faculty.

Suggested reading: Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell. Go read Sowell and you'll understand the game people like Harari play.

Like many other fashionable terms, object oriented programming is not nearly as useful as a concept as initially thought. but we stick with it out of inertia. And people who have paid thousands of dollars to take courses focused on object oriented programming are now deeply