Daniel Lemire @lemire@mastodon.social

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

Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/29/number-parsing-at-a-gigabyte-per-second

Science and Technology links (January 24th 2021): Year 2020 was a 'great' year for tech, more great technology to keep mice young and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/24/science-and-technology-links-january-24th-2021

Science and Technology links (January 16th 2021): the universe contains fewer stars and galaxies than we thought, we can tell someone’s political view using image recognition technology, dog owners live longer and more at https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/16/science-and-technology-links-january-16th-2021

Science and Technologie links (January 9th 2021): the Earth is spinning faster, much faster Wi-Fi coming near you soon, vitamin D might keep advanced cancer at bay and more https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/09/science-and-technologie-links-january-9th-2021

‪Science and Technology links (January 11th 2020): low-fat milk is more fattening than regular milk, the financial value of a college degree is near zero, type 2 diabetes might be caused by fat‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2020/01/11/science-and-technology-links-january-11th-2020

‪Science and Technology links (December 21st 2019): wind turbines may be worse for global warming than fossil fuels on the short term, tiger populations are going up, neural networks for mathematics‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/21/science-and-technology-links-december-21st-2019

‪Science and Technology links (December 14th 2019): we might finally have a therapy against Alzheimer's (in human beings), we are adopting medical therapies at record rates, computing power for artificial intelligence is doubling every 3 to 4 months https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/14/science-and-technology-links-december-14th-2019

Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/12/05/instructions-per-cycle-amd-versus-intel

Memory parallelism: AMD Rome versus Intel
https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/25/memory-parallelism-amd-rome-versus-intel

Cloud computing: a story of incentives https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/20/cloud-computing-a-story-of-incentives

‪Science and Technology links (November 16th 2019): girls and boys have similar psychometric intelligence but girls do much better in school, extraordinary age reversal in the eyes of mice using genetic triggers, PhD students are unhappy‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/16/science-and-technology-links-november-16th-2019

‪Unrolling your loops can improve branch prediction‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2019/11/12/unrolling-your-loops-can-improve-branch-prediction

‪Science and Technology links (October 26th 2019): daily vitamin D supplements may make you smarter, lots of ice in Antartica, and more.‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/26/science-and-technology-links-october-26th-2019

‪Science and Technology (October 12th 2019): drink alcohol, own a dog, go out in the sun, and more‬

‪https://lemire.me/blog/2019/10/12/science-and-technology-october-12th-2019

‪Science and Technology links (September 28th 2019): breakthrough in skin rejuvenation, creating new neurons in the brain of mice, lead is killing you https://lemire.me/blog/2019/09/28/science-and-technology-links-september-28th-2019

Doubling the speed of std::uniform_int_distribution in the GNU C++ library https://lemire.me/blog/2019/09/28/doubling-the-speed-of-stduniform_int_distribution-in-the-gnu-c-library