What I found interesting this time

by: Artur Dziedziczak

July 20, 2025

“Strategies for Very Fast Lexers,” n.d. https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies/

How to build lexers in C? A really interesting article that shows not only the caveats of #C but also great #benchmarks.
I was not aware of jump macros as a strategy to make switch statements faster, but I also have not written in C for many years now.
Either way, great article! Highly recommended.
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“Common-Pile,” n.d. https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf

There is a significant movement toward the creation of sustainable datasets for LLMs that do not violate the licensing of the content they are trained on.
Here is another example.
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“Reflections on OpenAI,” n.d. https://calv.info/openai-reflections

Apparently some person who quit #OpenAI made a pretty concrete description of the company insights.
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