assembly language
PulseAugur coverage of assembly language — every cluster mentioning assembly language across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
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AI's impact on software development compared to historical language shifts
The AI's impact on software development is being compared to historical shifts like the move from punch cards to assembly language or from C++ to Java. This analogy questions whether the advent of AI in coding will lead…
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8-Bit Computer Project Trains Neural Networks from Assembly Code
A project called VirtualPC is demonstrating the feasibility of training neural networks on an 8-bit computer simulated from basic logic gates. This open-source initiative allows for direct training of models using assem…
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User decries modern coding, urges hex and pen-and-paper
A Mastodon user expressed a contrarian view on programming languages, suggesting that even assembly language is too high-level. They advocated for writing code directly in hexadecimal opcodes and using pen and paper bef…
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Assembly code achieves 100x speedup over C, Dwarkesh Patel reveals
Dwarkesh Patel discussed the surprising speed of assembly code, noting it can be up to 100 times faster than C code. This performance gain is attributed to highly optimized, low-level programming techniques. The convers…
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VLC and FFmpeg developers discuss internet video backbone on Lex Fridman Podcast
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC, and Kieran Kunhya, a contributor to FFmpeg, appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast to discuss the critical role these open-source projects play in internet video. They delved int…
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I learned # Pascal in the 80s. I learned a bit C and Rust and hated that pointer logic which is extremely clumsy for matrix manipulation. # Python and # C users
A programmer shared their experience learning various programming languages, finding Pascal's array handling superior for matrix operations compared to C and Rust. They noted that libraries like NumPy are often written …