Sam Estep
@sgestep
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SE PhD student @S3DatCMU | 10x pun engineer | he/him
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined September 2020
how well do you understand how your computer's cache hierarchy affects your programs' performance?
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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!
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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?
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RT @wodenimoni: took the idea of “run the layout optimizer again when interacting with the diagram” pretty far this summer. Bloom is a Reac….
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RT @keenanisalive: Great work by the @UsePenrose team building Bloom: a lightweight way to make interactive diagrams: .
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RT @keenanisalive: Very proud of my group @GeomCollective, for their consistent focus on quality in research. We have 5 papers at #SIGGRAP….
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want consistent math formatting across github and vscode? give this issue an upvote!
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genuinely curious: why do some conferences use a one-column layout? isn't two-column just better?.
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RT @UsePenrose: Penrose is an open-source tool for making beautiful diagrams from any domain of knowledge. Want help using it? Want to he….
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RT @wodenimoni: We've been on a somewhat private slack forever. About time to work in the open for real, so join us there!.
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RT @wodenimoni: been working on @UsePenrose v3 lately and it's live now! check out our blog post to see what's new: .
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RT @keenanisalive: Tired of making the same kind of diagrams over and over by hand (e.g., in PowerPoint)?. The @UsePenrose team has been wo….
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to be clear i'm jk i just ate a corndog did not actually get a dog.
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a nice feature not mentioned in the release notes: @typescript 5.1 standard-library function docstrings include mdn links, added by yours truly :) thanks @sanders_n for shepherding this change! now you can reach the docs with one click, directly from your editor
TypeScript 5.1 is now out! Now with:. - smarter checks for undefined-returning functions.- no restrictions between getter/setter types.- better checks against JSX tags.- linked editing for JSX.- @param snippets.- new speed-ups. Read up more on our blog!.
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RT @keenanisalive: Thanks to @sgestep, we squashed a 4+ year old bug in @UsePenrose that makes it *asymptotically* faster! 🪲. Pro tip: if y….
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