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Excited to announce that this work ended up getting both a distinguished paper and artifact award at ASPLOS! Looking forward to working on all the interesting research the techniques in this paper unlock.

On behalf of 95% of Canadians, I'd like to apologize for Jordan Peterson. He must have been raised by the geese. Sorry.

Peterson will lose his license. The Ontario College of Psychologists doesn't care about politics. He's a grifter who routinely violates their code of conduct.

I just read -- in the book SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO by Jess Hill -- about the incident in Stockholm for which Stockholm Syndrome is named, and I am royally pissed off on behalf of all women, buckle up.

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public.
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Check out the camera-ready version of our #popl2023 paper on using formal technique to improve the #SPIRV programming language. Joint with Vasileios Klimis, Jack Clark, John Wickerson, Alan Baker and Daniel Neto.

Khronos Group Vulkan

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R.I.P. 2022 (2022 - 2022)

Next we have a GPU transpiler by ｄｅｖｏｎ: this project transpiles a CUDA kernel to a WebGPU kernel, to enable cross-vendor portability. In the end (see the write-up for the juicy details), it was able to input some CUDA Rodinia kernels and run them on M1 and AMD GPUs!

A big congrats to Jason Ekstrand, 2022 Khronie Award recipient! As an active contributor to the Vulkan Working Group since 2015, we're proud to see his hard work see some well earned spotlight! 🎉 col.la/khronie #Vulkan Khronos Group Faith Ekstrand 🏳️‍⚧️

Excellent thread. Calmly demonstrates that the sharp waves of RSV etc that many countries have been seeing are not due to any “Covid-induced immune impairment” etc, but are simply the results of immunity doing what immunity does, and the basics of epidemiology.

The Europeans are, so far, a super-interesting b-plot to this debacle, but give ‘em time…

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If another baseball fan ever tells me again that soccer is boring, I swear

Wait, what's Nostr?

(Streisand effect)

A thread on building with stone.

Particularly, the way stones are arranged in the wall, or ‘bond’.

Specifically, that bond called sneck, or Scotch.

A stone wall is a stone wall, right? Look at these two: rubble (L) and sneck bond (R). Just stone walls.

Lots of votes (804)! Thanks to Tara Moriarty and Prof. Michael S Fuhrer for amplifying.

No worries to those who didn't get it right, but the best answer is 79! Life expectancy is pretty sticky to all these excess deaths! Why is it sticky? I'll explain!

Let's test your actuarial math intuition!

Suppose life expectancy is normally 80 years.

In a given year, we see 10% more deaths than usual across all ages!

What is life expectancy with 10% more deaths?

Assume you live every year of your life with 10% more deaths than usual

CFL
Ken Danby
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#GreyCup2022