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Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs

Joe Rowell explores the use of unified memory on modern GPU, the low-level details of how unified memory is realized on an x86-64 system, and some of the tools to understand what's happening on a GPU.

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Architecture & Design

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AI, Rust, and Resilience: Key Software Trends Seen by the QCon San Francisco 2024 Program Committee

QCon conferences cover emerging trends in software, and this episode features members of the QCon San Francisco 2024 programming committee discussing those trends selected to be the focus of this year’s QCon San Francisco. This discussion is similar to InfoQ trends reports, with expert practitioners highlighting the technologies and practices that they feel deserve attention.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

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Generally AI - Season 2 - Episode 2: Fantastic Algorithms and Where to Find Them

Roland Meertens and Anthony Alford discuss their favorite algorithms, starting with the etymology of the word "algorithm". Roland introduces the concept of probabilistic counting, focusing on the HyperLogLog algorithm, which can be used to estimate the count of unique items. Meertens shares his own personal algorithm for estimating how many people he talks to at conferences.

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Great Products Need Closer Collaboration Between Product, Engineering and Design

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Maria Fernandez Guajardo about how product management has evolved, with the need for closer collaboration between product, engineering, and design, especially in the age of AI.

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Proactive Approaches to Securing Linux Systems and Engineering Applications

Maintaining a strong security posture is challenging, especially with Linux. An effective approach is proactive and includes patch management, optimized resource allocation, and effective alerting.

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TypeScript - Scaling up JavaScript

Jonathan Turner covers the challenges with growing and maintaining large JavaScript applications and how TypeScript addresses them.

Jonathan Turner
on Nov 20, 2014

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48:47
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs

Robert Smallshire explores the disconnect between the dire outcomes predicted by advocates of static typing versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built with dynamic languages.

Robert Smallshire
on Apr 26, 2014

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51:42
The Trouble With Types

Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.

Martin Odersky
on Oct 28, 2013

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48:51
Dependent Types for JavaScript

Ravi Chugh introduces Dependent JavaScript (DJS), a statically-typed system for the imperative, object-oriented, dynamic language.

Ravi Chugh
on Mar 20, 2013

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24:40
Static vs. Dynamic Languages

Stuart Williams discusses the merits of dynamic languages, definitions, stereotypes, myths, suggesting when and how to introduce such a language in production.

Stuart Williams
on Feb 25, 2013

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