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New comment by pascahousut in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

pascahousut — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:30:10 +0000

Is the linear algebra of machine learning more complicated than that of graphics?

New comment by pascahousut in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

pascahousut — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:46:54 +0000

My understanding is that it is a common and sad phenomenon of the cloud era that systems are unnecessarily complex and costly relative to the actual computational requirements mandated by the actual volume at which the system is realistically going to be used. For example, it is very easy to have more microservices than users because bootstrapping complicated systems has never been as easy as it is now, but architecting good systems and finding the correct problems to solve is just as hard as it has ever been.

New comment by pascahousut in "The Little Book of C"

pascahousut — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:43:32 +0000

And the K&R reference is useful too. It's a small book about a small language that does not have many features and maps to very basic concepts on hardware that really only does very basic things.