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Maybe I will try Mokyr. I saw his "A Culture of Growth" is available as an audio book. What do you think about that book? Thanks

Why do you think that Sweden has almost no start up scene?

According to this crunchbase data [1] it has a lot per capita.

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/countries-most-startup-...

Nice that this will be open sourced. Maybe the true performance characteristics can be better understood.

The press release seems exaggerated or written by marketing, e.g. claiming "accelerating optimization exponentially". Shouldn't the acceleration be in the order of the number of compute cores?

This 2016 podcast discusses this in depth: https://cppcast.com/alfred-bratterud/

I could only find a (legal) pdf[1] for $80. Pretty steep price when I'd probably only want to read 2-3 chapters.

[1]: Swedish site: https://www.bokus.com/bok/9781009418133/linear-algebra-for-d...

Thanks for sharing that. AS400 always catches my eye after doing in internship at IBM, working with AS400 back in 2000.

Two months in and I'm a happy Beelink customer too. My kids mostly use it for Minecraft.

For the larger performance diffs, has anyone looked into why? Are there a couple of common reasons? I'd really like to know. Thanks

Interesting. For other readers, this is about an early 80s Texas Instruments computer and not a graphing calculator as I first thought.

I skimmed your post and I wonder if mojo is focusing on such small 512x512 matrices? What is your thinking on generalizing your results for larger matrices?

That would be cool.

Otherwise, sweepers will need both extra robust tires and to be ready change flats.

Some boards have decent support. I've got an odroid C1 released in 2015 and I saw there is at least an Ubuntu 20 image for it!

I've seen that there are Python wrappers for some of CGAL https://github.com/sciencectn/cgal-bindings but I haven't used them.

Thanks, this brought back some memories. I did an internship / co-op in software engineering at that site in Rochester while a student. They needed extra help so I worked a few evenings at 1.5 pay alongside the regular factory workers.

In Sweden, a significant number of parents with young children who work 80% so maybe that has caused the confusion.

Basically.

You can use it for Vehicle Route Problems. I did so once as an interview project but never in production. If you start from some example problem, the learning curve isn't so steep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_routing_problem

Thanks! I didn't know that the benchmarking had resumed. Good news. I hope CPLEX and Xpress return someday.

The photo of Professor Hagai Perets (Left) and Ph.D. student Yonadav Barry Ginat seems to have them in their native environment: the university's Science and Math library. If you zoom you'll see the Math and Science topics listed on the card for the book shelves behind them.

Aren't there better odroid options if you mainly care about compute?

It depends on the country and sometimes the institution and program. Here is a price list from a Swedish university with the approx. USD amounts being between $10,000 to $30,000 depending on the program:

https://www.slu.se/en/education/application-and-admission/tu...

I don't know what your new sources are. The rates of death and infection vary a lot between regions in Sweden so any significant herd immunity is probably regional.

There might be something to that element of (bad) luck: a large number of people in the Stockholm region seemingly timed their ski trips to Italy at just the wrong time: plenty of infectious people but before social distancing / quarantine measures.

The reviews for vim and emacs miss that you can use the LSP (Language Server Protocol) to get some (or a lot) the code navigation and refactoring support you'd find in VSCode or PyCharm.

There is the Swedish company Tink in this space too.

https://tink.com/

I agree with you. I don't like unnecessary packaging. However, I am pretty sure the environmental impact of a plastic bag properly recycled or even incinerated is small compared to all the impacts of the individual item. I am thinking of things like the greenhouse gas emission of cotton crop. Maybe someone with a background in LCA knows the details [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment

I've listen to some of these https://www.manning.com/liveaudio-landing and there are some glitches like some code snippets not being read. The books were not designed for audio so sometimes it is try but you can learn something.

Some of these (maybe all?) are available on audible as well.

Yes loom seems very important. I would interested to know how it compares with similar tools like nidhugg[1][2] for the C and C++.

[1] https://github.com/nidhugg/nidhugg [2] https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1324003/FULLTEXT0...

I guess this is the link https://ispc.godbolt.org/ ?

Exactly. I worked at a few smaller but established FinTech companies delivery Trading Systems to banks, hedge funds, etc that had built their own unique systems written in C++ for concurrent applications. These systems were battle tested but they were not open-sourced and anyway they could not easily be re-purposed.