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Samuel Albanie

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Branch Prediction for Humans

As an Englishman, I have a biologically innate tolerance for queuing. I can wait stoically for a bus in the rain. I can wait for Diss Town FC to string three passes together.

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Productivity wen?!?

We intuitively understand that the value of an AI assistant is a function of both its speed and its accuracy. But the relationship between these factors and actual productivity is complex.

If an AI completes a task in 10 minutes that takes...

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Documentation Considered (Increasingly) Harmful

In 1968, Edsger Dijkstra published a legendary article titled “Go To Statement Considered Harmful,” arguing that its use obfuscated program flow and should be abolished.

Today, I want to make a related, if more modest, claim: technical doc...

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New Bandits in Town

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