UChicago to Commercialize Hoffmann’s Generalized Software Optimization Framework

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6 pointsjasondrowley3 comments

Scientific American reported on this in 2011 [1]. But the application seemed much more limited than how it's being described in this Crunchbase piece. Has the technology advanced that much or is the latest reporting off?

[1] http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/World_Changing_Ideas_Dece...

It's advanced quite a bit, and the article references some of the latest advancements[1] just published.

[1] https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~hankhoffmann/autoconf.pdf

edit: disclaimer - I'm working with the University & Dr. Hoffmann on this, but have also replicated (some) of the results in earlier papers.

> In a complex system with many layers of subsystems, having [Optimization Framework]s all the way down the stack would make the whole system run more efficiently.

Pretty extraordinary claim. Does the law of diminishing returns somehow not apply here?

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