Spencer Tipping

Compression trades speed for space, but we should be able to make that decision on the fly. There are two, perhaps three, action items here: 1. Trade space and speed...

A common case is for sort optimization: `^{row/sort-buffer=65536m row/sort-compress=lz4} g` is pretty ridiculous. Another one is for `S`, which is less bad but still not great: `^{scale/ibuf=64 scale/obuf=64} S8[...]`. Some...

Forwarding numpy calculations over SSH results in single-core operation

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If I run from my laptop and use `s` to forward a `by''` section to a 64-core server, it runs single-threaded. On the other hand, if I run `by''` directly...

https://xkcd.com/833/

It currently uses its own canvas-imagedata renderer that's decent but pretty outdated by now.

Hi! I love what you're doing with this project. I wanted to offer a broader explanation about why reciprocal units are helpful in performance engineering: since time-complexity is measured in...