Daniel Lemire @lemire@mastodon.social

How long should you work on a problem ? https://lemire.me/blog/2021/06/14/how-long-should-you-work-on-a-problem

Science and Technology links (June 12th 2021): the long-lost Egyptian capital has been found, we finished sequencing the human genome, first drug approved for Alzheimer's in 20 years, first disks with a speed of 14 GB/s and more at https://lemire.me/blog/2021/06/12/science-and-technology-links-june-12th-2021

Science and Technology links (May 22nd 2021): faster and leaner computer chips, faster disks, the Little Ice Age might have been caused by ice coming down from the Artic, we rejuvenated the blood of old mice and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/05/22/science-and-technology-links-may-22nd-2021

Converting binary integers to ASCII characters: Apple M1 vs AMD Zen2 https://lemire.me/blog/2021/05/17/converting-binary-integers-to-ascii-characters-apple-m1-vs-amd-zen2

The benefits of locality in random access
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/05/03/the-benefits-of-locality-in-random-access

Science and Technology links (May 1st 2021): grow your own food to combat climate change, we created new neurons inside live mice brain, a drug prevents scarring following injury, smelling food can be as bad as eating it (if you are a worm) and more at https://lemire.me/blog/2021/05/01/science-and-technology-links-may-1st-2021

Some useful regular expressions for programmers https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/22/some-useful-regular-expressions-for-programmers

Science and Technology links (April 17th 2021): Moderna built the vaccine from data, not from the virus itself, people with red hair have odd biology, women enter menopause later and later, and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/17/science-and-technology-links-april-17th-2021

How fast can you sort arrays of integers in Java?
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/04/09/how-fast-can-you-sort-arrays-of-integers-in-java

Science and Technology links (March 27th 2021): college students may not gain critical skills, genetic analysis can predict COVID 19 clinical outcomes, wearables can help you lose weight and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/27/science-and-technologt-links-march-27th-2021

Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/24/counting-cycles-and-instructions-on-the-apple-m1-processor

Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/17/apples-m1-processor-and-the-full-128-bit-integer-product

We released version 0.9 of the record-setting JSON library simdjson. The high-performance On Demand front-end introduced in version 0.7 and optimized in version 0.8 becomes the primary simdjson front-end in version 0.9. https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

Science and Technology links (March 6th 2021): we are giving monkeys human genes, fewer people have stokes, and more

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/06/science-and-technology-links-march-6th-2021

How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)? https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/04/how-does-your-programming-language-handle-minus-zero-0-0

Parsing floating-point numbers really fast in C#
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/22/parsing-floating-point-numbers-really-fast-in-c

Science and Technology links (February 13th 2021): life in Alpha Centauri? Freely available supplement makes middle-aged mice stronger, inexpensive transparent wood https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/13/science-and-technology-links-february-13th-2021

On the cost of converting ASCII to UTF-16
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/09/on-the-cost-of-converting-ascii-to-utf-16

Science and Technology links (February 6th 2021): a billion people now use an iPhone, a common body building supplement made old mice look younger, wine and cheese daily might be good for your brain, more signs of extraterrestrial life?...

https://lemire.me/blog/2021/02/06/science-and-technology-links-february-6th-2021