31st December 2016, 8 min read

Index for Year 2016

2016-01-05: Pac-Man running at 1 million frames per second 🗪
2016-01-11: Revisiting “Holy Fire” (Bruce Sterling, 1996) 🗪
2016-01-12: The Cray supercomputer, the iPhone and blood 🗪
2016-01-18: Consciousness and free will are illusions: you are just a robot 🗪
2016-01-25: More of Vinge´s predictions for 2025… 🗪
2016-02-01: Default random-number generators are slow 🗪
2016-02-08: Imagining the future trumps intelligence… 🗪
2016-02-11: Beyond the PC toward virtual and augmented reality 🗪
2016-02-15: Cultivating weirdness 🗪
2016-02-18: Things you have probably not seen coming… 🗪
2016-02-22: Don´t beat them, make them irrelevant 🗪
2016-02-28: Lost my bet: the PC isn´t dead… yet 🗪
2016-02-29: My next bet: VR is going to take off in the next 3 years… 🗪
2016-03-03: Statistics is overrated: the rise of data science 🗪
2016-03-05: It is easy to lose sight of why we do things… 🗪
2016-03-08: Web plasticity 🗪
2016-03-14: Artificial intelligence is mostly a matter of engineering? 🗪
2016-03-15: Biology and computing are more alike than you think… 🗪
2016-03-21: Ranged random-number generation is slow in Python… 🗪
2016-03-23: What the heck is interesting research? 🗪
2016-03-25: Declarative programming is a dead-end for the lowly programmer 🗪
2016-03-27: What thirty years of technology looks like: the early high-school years 🗪
2016-04-02: Setting up a “robust” Minecraft server (Java Edition) on a Raspberry Pi 🗪
2016-04-04: Could virtual-reality make us smarter? 🗪
2016-04-07: Being shallow is rational 🗪
2016-04-12: Narrative illusions 🗪
2016-04-18: How close are AI systems to human-level intelligence? The Allen AI challenge. 🗪
2016-04-20: No more leaks with sanitize flags in gcc and clang 🗪
2016-04-21: The powerful hacker culture 🗪
2016-04-25: How will you die? Cancer, Alzheimer´s, Stroke? 🗪
2016-04-27: We know a lot less than we think, especially about the future. 🗪
2016-04-29: Is software a neutral agent? 🗪
2016-05-03: Email: how to be polite and efficient 🗪
2016-05-06: Professors intentionally slow down science to make themselves look better 🗪
2016-05-08: We are passing the Turing test right on schedule 🗪
2016-05-23: The surprising cleverness of modern compilers 🗪
2016-05-30: Enough with the bogus medical studies! 🗪
2016-06-03: To be smart, work on problems you care about 🗪
2016-06-13: The strange case of the copyright of open-source software 🗪
2016-06-15: How fast is tabulation-based hashing? The downsides of Zobrist… 🗪
2016-06-21: I do not use a debugger 🗪
2016-06-27: A fast alternative to the modulo reduction 🗪
2016-06-30: Fast random shuffling 🗪
2016-07-06: Virtual Reality: First impressions with the HTC Vive 🗪
2016-07-18: Augmented reality becomes mainstream 🗪
2016-07-21: Accelerating PHP hashing by “unoptimizing” it 🗪
2016-07-25: Common sense in artificial intelligence… by 2026? 🗪
2016-08-01: Combine smart people with crazily hard projects 🗪
2016-08-02: Let us talk about the Luddite problem… 🗪
2016-08-09: How many reversible integer operations do you know? 🗪
2016-08-25: Faster dictionary decoding with SIMD instructions 🗪
2016-08-29: Innovation as a Fringe Activity 🗪
2016-08-31: The rate-of-living theory is wrong 🗪
2016-09-05: Are there too many people? 🗪
2016-09-06: Function signature: how do you order parameters? 🗪
2016-09-14: Starting high school in 2016 🗪
2016-09-14: The new C standards are worth it 🗪
2016-09-15: The memory usage of STL containers can be surprising 🗪
2016-09-19: The rise of dark circuits 🗪
2016-09-21: My thoughts on Swift 🗪
2016-09-22: Swift versus Java : the bitset performance test 🗪
2016-09-28: Sorting already sorted arrays is much faster? 🗪
2016-09-29: Can Swift code call C code without overhead? 🗪
2016-10-05: Variable-length strings can be expensive 🗪
2016-10-10: A case study in the performance cost of abstraction (C++´s std::shuffle) 🗪
2016-10-14: Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors 🗪
2016-10-17: Update to my VR bet with Greg Linden 🗪
2016-10-21: Who is keeping an eye on the tech companies? 🗪
2016-10-31: My review of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (video game) 🗪
2016-11-07: Framed in the past 🗪
2016-11-15: On metadata 🗪
2016-11-23: Software evolves by natural selection 🗪
2016-11-30: Getting a job in the software industry 🗪
2016-12-06: Don´t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study 🗪
2016-12-15: How to build robust systems 🗪
2016-12-16: Science and technology: what happened in 2016 🗪
2016-12-20: What is a useful theory? 🗪
2016-12-21: Performance overhead when calling assembly from Go 🗪
2016-12-23: Don´t let the experts define science! 🗪
2016-12-26: The threat of technological unemployment 🗪
2016-12-30: Can your C compiler vectorize a scalar product? 🗪