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The number of scams perpetrated against traditional bank account holders doesn't seem to support the suggestion that scammers aren't interested in regular person-sized targets.

So has he hired anyone who does not exist to champion the cause of the innocent and helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law?

Presumably you could just require % amounts to be specified (and make sure to pick volume vs weight in some fashion that avoids gaming).

Interesting, but I don't see any licensing terms, which means I can't touch it in a commercial setting.

At least with LG TVs you can just not give them the internet and nothing of value is lost (at least assuming you have an Apple TV or other trusted smart tv capability). Much more difficult to not give the windows PC internet and have it be useful (at least mine is only used for gaming).

I'm still astounded my Ford's infotainment system takes 5-10 seconds after opening the radio "app" to present me with the station selection UI. Most of that seems to be some sort of startup delay. The mind boggles.

I'm somewhat dubious about anything talking about low level performance programming at the instruction level that doesn't distinguish between latency and throughput, never mind mention the incredibly out-of-order nature of modern desktop/server class CPU cores.

Or economies of liability and buck passing. I suspect managers and businesses will still want to be in the game of "not my fault, supplier is working on it, we can sue them if they don't meet SLA".

It will be interesting to see if this solves any issues that aren't already addressed by the likes of matlab / SciPy / Julia. Reading the paper it sounds a lot like "SciPy but with MLIR"?

Not just for speed, Horner can also be essential for numerical stability.

FORmula TRANslation, the clue is in the name. It's great at math, but yeah, strings and OS stuff is a PITA. The modern vector-based syntax is still really nice and I've yet to come across a C++ library quite as slick.

But I think what it was really missing last time I looked at it was good access to compiler intrinsics (or otherwise) to hit vectorizations and math optimization instructions. The OpenMP simd pragmas weren't really doing a fantastic job. I hope that's better now it's in LLVM.

I suspect main benefits are they have no need to maintain the hardware or software for any longer than it makes sense for their own needs, and don't have to handhold users through a constantly evolving minefield of performance and technical capabilities.

I think the current generation of tools have a long way to go before I trust any numerical algorithm they implement, based on our recent experiments trying to make it implement some linear algebra by calling LAPACK. When we asked it to write some sparse linear algebra code based on some more obscure graph algorithms it produced some ugly stepchild of dijkstra's algorithm instead, which needless to say did not achieve the desired aim.

Have meetings to figure out how to interact with the other 9990 employees. Then try and make the skeleton app left behind by the team of transient engineers who left after 18 months before moving on to their next gig work, before throwing it out and starting again from scratch.