Go Plan9 memo, speeding up calculations 450%
I want to take advantage of Go’s concurrency and parallelism for some of my upcoming projects, allowing for some serious number crunching capabilities. But what if I wanted EVEN MORE POWER?!? Enter SIMD, Same Instruction Muliple Data . Simd instr...
Free-threaded programming in Python 3.13
This (half-) month in Python and elsewhere: Python 3.13’s “no-GIL” or “free-threaded” version is out, and you can try it right now! Also, explore the ins and outs of Anaconda’s Python distribution for data science and get cracking on a Pyt...
AI stagnation: The gap between AI investment and AI adoption
AI continues to shape cloud strategies, but AI implementation is going slower than most predicted. This is frustrating for technology providers who have made big bets on AI. What’s going on? A recent survey conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Re...
True multithreading in Python at last!
This (half-) month in Python and elsewhere: Python 3.13’s “no-GIL” or “free-threaded” version is out, and you can try it right now! Also, explore the ins and outs of Anaconda’s Python distribution for data science and get cracking on a Pyt...
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. After all, computers have evolved from sporting 8-bit processors to 64-bit process...
