In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

SLOTHY enables a development workflow where developers write 'clean' assembly by hand, emphasizing the logic of the computation, while SLOTHY automates microarchitecture-specific micro-optimizations.

pyz80 is an assembler for the assembly language of the Z80 micro-processor. It is designed in particular for producing code to run on the SAM Coupé computer, and outputs disk images which can be ...

Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

With ARM chips now ubiquitous in high-performance laptops and edge servers, it’s legitimate to ask whether these new devices are worth your next purchase. It’s time to get an understanding of the ...

Why do we build radios or clocks when you can buy them? Why do we make LEDs blink for no apparent purpose? Why do we try to squeeze one extra frame out of our video cards? We don’t know why, but we do ...

Abstract: General Matrix Multiplication or GEMM kernels take centre place in high performance computing and machine learning. Recent NVIDIA GPUs include GEMM accelerators, such as NVIDIA’s Tensor ...

Our expanding understanding of the brain at the level of neurons and synapses, and the level of cognitive phenomena such as language, leaves a formidable gap between these two scales. Here we ...

Directed self-assembly (DSA) is a nanofabrication technique in which self-assembling block copolymer thin films (BCP) are ordered using larger-scale, pre-defined guides patterned by standard ...