31st December 2017, 13 min read

Index for Year 2017

2017-01-03: Betting against techno-unemployment 🗪
2017-01-09: Predicting the future job market: the librarians 🗪
2017-01-16: Best programming language for high performance (January 2017)? 🗪
2017-01-20: How quickly can you remove spaces from a string? 🗪
2017-01-23: Resizing arrays can be slow in Swift 🗪
2017-01-27: Deep learning: the silver bullet? 🗪
2017-01-27: How expensive are the union and intersection of two unordered_set in C++? 🗪
2017-01-30: Maps and sets can have quadratic-time performance 🗪
2017-02-02: Montreal researchers “prove” that aging is the result of a genetic program 🗪
2017-02-06: Sorting sorted arrays in Swift 🗪
2017-02-14: How fast can you count lines? 🗪
2017-02-16: Thoughts on my new laptop (Dell XPS 13 with Windows 10) 🗪
2017-02-24: Tech jobs are already largely automated 🗪
2017-02-28: How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]? 🗪
2017-03-03: The technology of Logan (2017 Wolverine movie set in 2029) 🗪
2017-03-07: College and inequality 🗪
2017-03-10: Science and Technology links (March 10, 2017) 🗪
2017-03-13: Stable Priority Queues? 🗪
2017-03-17: Science and Technology links (March 17, 2017) 🗪
2017-03-20: Does software performance still matter? 🗪
2017-03-24: Science and Technology links (March 24, 2017) 🗪
2017-03-27: The technology of Mass Effect Andromeda 🗪
2017-03-28: Never reason from averages 🗪
2017-03-31: Compressed bitset libraries in C and C++ 🗪
2017-03-31: Science and Technology links (March 30, 2017) 🗪
2017-04-03: My review of `Ghost in the Shell´ (2017) 🗪
2017-04-04: How much are elite universities worth? 🗪
2017-04-07: Science and Technology links (April 7th, 2017) 🗪
2017-04-08: Robots have not yet stolen our jobs 🗪
2017-04-10: Removing duplicates from lists quickly 🗪
2017-04-14: Science and Technology links (April 14th, 2017) 🗪
2017-04-17: “I have read all of your papers” 🗪
2017-04-22: Science and Technology links (April 21st, 2017) 🗪
2017-04-24: The real lesson of the human genome project 🗪
2017-04-25: Quickly pruning elements in SIMD vectors using the simdprune library 🗪
2017-04-28: Science and Technology links (April 28th, 2017) 🗪
2017-05-05: Science and Technology links (May 5th, 2017) 🗪
2017-05-09: Signed integer division by a power of two can be expensive! 🗪
2017-05-12: My review of Change Agent: A Novel (by Daniel Suarez) 🗪
2017-05-12: Science and Technology links (May 12th, 2017) 🗪
2017-05-15: Has the Internet killed real estate agents yet? 🗪
2017-05-17: Educational backgrounds of the CEOs of the top corporations in the US 🗪
2017-05-19: Science and Technology links (May 18th, 2017) 🗪
2017-05-23: Counting exactly the number of distinct elements: sorted arrays vs. hash sets? 🗪
2017-05-26: Science and Technology links (May 26th, 2017) 🗪
2017-05-29: Unsigned vs. signed integer arithmetic 🗪
2017-06-02: Science and Technology links (June 2nd, 2017) 🗪
2017-06-06: Quickly returning the top-k elements: computer science vs. the real world 🗪
2017-06-09: Science and Technology links (June 9th, 2017) 🗪
2017-06-14: QuickSelect versus binary heap for top-k queries 🗪
2017-06-16: Science and Technology links (June 16th, 2017) 🗪
2017-06-21: Top speed for top-k queries 🗪
2017-06-23: Science and Technology links (June 23rd, 2017) 🗪
2017-06-30: Science and Technology links (July 1st, 2017) 🗪
2017-06-30: Video game review… Nier: Automata 🗪
2017-07-03: Pruning spaces from strings quickly on ARM processors 🗪
2017-07-07: Are your strings immutable? 🗪
2017-07-07: Science and Technology links (July 7th, 2017) 🗪
2017-07-10: Pruning spaces faster on ARM processors with Vector Table Lookups 🗪
2017-07-14: Science and Technology links (July 14th, 2017) 🗪
2017-07-15: What is “modern” programming? 🗪
2017-07-21: Science and Technology links (July 21st, 2017) 🗪
2017-07-28: Science and Technology links (July 27th, 2017) 🗪
2017-08-05: Science and Technology links (August 4th, 2017) 🗪
2017-08-11: Optimizing polynomial hash functions (Java vs. Swift) 🗪
2017-08-11: Science and Technology links (August 11th, 2017) 🗪
2017-08-14: Bubbling up is lowering empathy at a civilization scale 🗪
2017-08-15: On Melissa O´Neill´s PCG random number generator 🗪
2017-08-18: Science and Technology links (August 18th, 2017) 🗪
2017-08-22: “Cracking” random number generators (xoroshiro128+) 🗪
2017-08-22: Testing non-cryptographic random number generators: my results 🗪
2017-08-25: Quantifying the performance benefits of Go 1.9 on bitsets 🗪
2017-08-25: Science and Technology links (August 25th, 2017) 🗪
2017-08-31: Parsing comma-separated integers in Java 🗪
2017-09-01: DeepL is as good as human translators? 🗪
2017-09-01: Science and Technology links (September 1st, 2017) 🗪
2017-09-05: Go does not inline functions when it should 🗪
2017-09-08: Science and Technology links (September 8th, 2017) 🗪
2017-09-08: The Xorshift128+ random number generator fails BigCrush 🗪
2017-09-14: Scholarship is conservative, tinkering is progressive 🗪
2017-09-15: How fast are malloc_size and malloc_usable_size in C? 🗪
2017-09-15: Science and Technology links (September 15th, 2017) 🗪
2017-09-15: The Xorshift1024* random number generator fails BigCrush 🗪
2017-09-18: Computing the inverse of odd integers 🗪
2017-09-18: Visiting all values in an array exactly once in “random order” 🗪
2017-09-22: Science and Technology links (September 22th, 2017) 🗪
2017-09-22: Swift as a low-level programming language? 🗪
2017-09-26: Benchmarking algorithms to visit all values in an array in random order 🗪
2017-09-26: Runtime constants: Go vs. C++ 🗪
2017-09-26: Runtime constants: Swift 🗪
2017-09-27: Stream VByte: breaking new speed records for integer compression 🗪
2017-09-29: How smart is Swift with abstraction? A trivial experiment with protocols 🗪
2017-09-29: Science and Technology links (September 29th, 2017) 🗪
2017-09-30: Stream VByte: first independent assessment 🗪
2017-10-03: My iPad Pro experiment 🗪
2017-10-06: Science and Technology links (October 6th, 2017) 🗪
2017-10-09: On Blade Runner 2049 🗪
2017-10-11: Post-Blade-Runner trauma: From Deep Learning to SQL and back 🗪
2017-10-13: Bee-level intelligence 🗪
2017-10-13: Science and Technology links (October 13th, 2017) 🗪
2017-10-14: The Harvey-Weinstein scientific model 🗪
2017-10-17: Why virtual reality (VR) might matter more than you think…. 🗪
2017-10-20: Science and Technology links (October 20th, 2017) 🗪
2017-10-27: Fast integer compression with Stream VByte on ARM Neon processors 🗪
2017-10-27: Science and Technology links (October 27th, 2017) 🗪
2017-10-31: A decade of using text-mining for citation function classification 🗪
2017-10-31: Synthesized hash functions in Swift 4.1 (and why Java programmers should be envious) 🗪
2017-11-01: The dual-shotgun theorem of software engineering 🗪
2017-11-03: Science and Technology links (November 3rd, 2017) 🗪
2017-11-07: Are universities an egalitarian force? 🗪
2017-11-10: How should you build a high-performance column store for the 2020s? 🗪
2017-11-10: Should computer scientists keep the Lena picture? 🗪
2017-11-11: Science and Technology links (November 11th, 2017) 🗪
2017-11-12: China is catching to the USA, while Japan is being left behind 🗪
2017-11-16: Fast exact integer divisions using floating-point operations 🗪
2017-11-16: Fast software is a discipline, not a purpose 🗪
2017-11-17: Fast exact integer divisions using floating-point operations (ARM edition) 🗪
2017-11-17: Science and Technology links (November 17th, 2017) 🗪
2017-11-21: Do relational databases evolve toward rigidity? 🗪
2017-11-22: You are your tools 🗪
2017-11-24: How often do superior alternatives fail to catch on? 🗪
2017-11-24: Science and Technology links (November 24th, 2017) 🗪
2017-11-28: Bit hacking versus memoization: a Stream VByte example 🗪
2017-12-01: Science and Technology links (December 1st, 2017) 🗪
2017-12-06: Simplistic programming is underrated 🗪
2017-12-08: Science and Technology links (December 8th, 2017) 🗪
2017-12-11: No, a supercomputer won´t make your code run faster 🗪
2017-12-12: If all your attributes are independent two-by-two… are all your attributes independent? 🗪
2017-12-16: Science and Technology links (December 15th, 2017) 🗪
2017-12-22: Science and Technology links (December 22nd, 2017) 🗪
2017-12-26: Personal reflections on 2017 🗪
2017-12-30: Science and Technology links (December 29th, 2017) 🗪