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Re:Inside the Linker (2012) on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:21AM (#17520879)
Can you say more about the last paragraph? I have often wondered if you could avoid identifier mangling with a better designed object file format
Re:Ask HN: Anyone interested in a systems programming/math knowledge e... on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @01:00AM (#17123830)
Those videos look cool! I don't know anything about instruction pipelines and stuff like that. Will def check it out

Ask HN: Anyone interested in a systems programming/math knowledge exchange?

Posted by bear_child on Monday May 21, 2018 @09:30PM
from the ask-hn dept.

hi HN,over the past few years, I have developed an interest in the technical details of how modern computer systems actually work. I mostly satisfy my curiosity by reading about computer security, reverse engineering, systems programming, embedded programming and stuff like that. Over the past few months, some of the basic skills have really started clicking for me^^ and to go further, I would...

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Re:Show HN: A MIX simulator on Friday March 17, 2017 @03:26PM (#13897154)
That is a good point! For me, if I click the step button, I can then hold down enter and it starts steping very fast. That may be browser specific though

Ask HN: Less well known opportunities for STEM PhDs in the technology industry?

Posted by bear_child on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @03:37PM
from the ask-hn dept.

It is that time of year again. A sizable proportion of graduating mathematics/science PhD students (including myself) didn't get that university position they were jockeying for and they are now wondering what to do after graduation in April.If you spent your time in graduate school working on something popular like machine learning, programming languages or financial mathematics, getting a job...

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Re:Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:11PM (#13314158)
https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-...

is the standard reference. It is well written and light if you have the math background (linear algebra + probability theory)

Re:Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017 on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:47PM (#13313950)
Regardless of how we end up building quantum computers, they will be useful. The theory behind computing with qbits is well established and many interesting quantum algorithms have already been developed.

Even a 32 qbit computer would be a very serious breakthrough.

edit: by a 32 qbit computer, I mean that the device should have 32 qbits of memory in total! I'm not talking about bus size.

That is one of the cool things about quantum computing. You don't need a big device to do interesting computations.

Re:Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data science and mach... on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:42AM (#13237490)
What is your company? I am Australian, finishing a PhD in mathematics and looking for a job.