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.

“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.

“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.