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Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.

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  The SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions on x86 are slow compared to alternatives.

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  NEON has nothing like it; on x64, the closest thing is the SSE4.2 string-comparison instructions (pcmpistrm), which are slow.

  Faster JSON parsing with SVE2 on ARM processorslemire.me

Senior economist at the Foundation for American Innovation; writes Second Best, and was the Niskanen Center's director of social policy before that.

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  Oil-rich Gulf monarchies are effectively post-scarcity societies, with institutions adapted to match that condition.

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  oil-rich Gulf monarchies are the closest thing to post-scarcity societies on earth today, with the institutional adaptions to match

  Notes from the UAEsecondbest.ca

American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  The Drama Bookshop

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  Recently though, I went to The Drama Bookshop, which was a delightful surprise. It is the closest I have come to the experience of a Manhattan bookshop as a third place in the kind of Prairie Lights mode.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Stories of Your Life and Others

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  He is the closest thing to a modern Jorge Luis Borges in melding high concepts with literature to create something better than either

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.

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  The times I have come closest to burnout or flaming out have never been when I was working the hardest, but when I cared the least.

  The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf

Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  In prioritizing a list of tasks, the closest calls matter least while getting the very top item right matters most

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  In hindsight, the hardest comparisons are in fact the least useful - if I do the fourth most important task before the third most important, that's no big deal, but doing the tenth before the first is a screw-up!

  Post 48: Prioritise Tasks by Rating not Sortingneelnanda.io

Distributed-systems safety researcher; runs the Jepsen consistency-testing project and wrote the Riemann monitoring system.

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  Logitech G5

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  I use a Logitech G5 laser mouse, which may be the closest to the Platonic ideal pointing device as it is possible for late-stage capitalism to produce.

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