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Occasional posts about interesting stuff that pops into my head.
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December 25, 2022
How to Almost Find the SVD of a Matrix Really Fast
The singular value decomposition has applications in compression, signal processing, natural language processing, quantum information, big data, numerical weather prediction, financial engineering, gravitational waveform modeling, disease surveillance, and recommender systems, to name just a few. It is also expensive — unless you are willing to accept an answer that is wrong.
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December 21, 2022
You Don’t Know C++ Until You Know About Move Semantics
Move semantics are a fundamental component of object lifecycle and effective memory management in C++, and writing good C++ code goes hand in hand with understanding them. I motivate their existence and dig into the technical details behind moving objects.