# ![@lemire Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::10695152.png) @lemire Daniel Lemire

Daniel Lemire posts on X about canada, microsoft, china, the most the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  19.29% [stocks](/list/stocks)  13.57% [countries](/list/countries)  11.43% [finance](/list/finance)  4.29% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  3.57% [currencies](/list/currencies)  2.14% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  1.43% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.43% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  1.43% [gaming](/list/gaming)  0.71%

**Social topic influence**
[canada](/topic/canada) 6.43%, [microsoft](/topic/microsoft) 4.29%, [china](/topic/china) 3.57%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 2.86%, [software](/topic/software) 2.86%, [countries](/topic/countries) 2.86%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.14%, [science](/topic/science) 2.14%, [has been](/topic/has-been) 2.14%, [we are](/topic/we-are) 2.14%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@geofflangdale](/creator/undefined) [@goretexamerica](/creator/undefined) [@awesomekling](/creator/undefined) [@echoes2099](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@glevonian](/creator/undefined) [@neuralamp4ever](/creator/undefined) [@dwarkeshsp](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@mpweiher](/creator/undefined) [@jfrechette51](/creator/undefined) [@alcebaid](/creator/undefined) [@love2code](/creator/undefined) [@pkese](/creator/undefined) [@blainegaither](/creator/undefined) [@fizzbhau](/creator/undefined) [@frameworkputer](/creator/undefined) [@xmaneyman](/creator/undefined) [@bankrbot](/creator/undefined) [@p_mbanugo](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"http://x.com/i/article/2023053673127907328 http://x.com/i/article/2023053673127907328"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2023057337095729330)  2026-02-15T15:30Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Microsoft for the win: This makes Maia [---] the most performant first-party silicon from any hyperscaler with three times the FP4 performance of the third generation Amazon Trainium and FP8 performance above Googles seventh generation TPU. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-accelerator-built-for-inference/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/01/26/maia-200-the-ai-accelerator-built-for-inference/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2015904929970328015)  2026-01-26T21:49Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Many database systems include compilers meaning that your SQL query is turned into machine code. PostgreSQL has a just-in-time compiler for queries. It is not alone a system like ClickHouse does too. Even the good old sqlite translates queries into its own byte code for efficient execution. Database system engineers often claim that database engines are the most badass software you can build. And they have a point. @cedar_db is incredibly cool and more people should know about it. Theyre a team of PhDs in Munich building a new relational database on top of almost [--] years of academic research"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2016502485599260755)  2026-01-28T13:23Z 32.7K followers, 49.6K engagements


"An implicit decision that engineers make when they optimize systems is their target. Given a fixed budget and your budget is always more or less fixed you can do much better work if you narrow your scope. If you ask an engineer to improve the performance of a game on a specific system they can probably do it relatively cheaply. If you are asking them to improve the performance on all possible PCs the cost goes up. To be fair optimizing for one system often benefits other systems but as you milk more and more performance it gets much easier to tune for a specific system. There are many reasons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2016531481909133386)  2026-01-28T15:19Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Don't code like you have a PhD: One of the downsides of a computer science education is an irrational tendency to prefer complexity when it is not appropriate. You have a math problem to solve Better use Greek letters. How do you design a software system Using the UML standard. How do you store your data Well you might need an AVL tree you know so that it is well balanced. The temptation is clear: more sophistication implies higher status. Here is the reality: building software for the real world can already be insanely complex to the point where even the senior engineer cannot tell you why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2016879167602655698)  2026-01-29T14:20Z 32.7K followers, 14.5K engagements


"Fred Brooks in 1999: Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of [--] percent) is spent thinking and no tool no matter how advanced can think for you. Consequently even if a tool did everything except the thinking for youif it wrote [---] percent of the code wrote [---] percent of the documentation did [---] percent of the testing burned the CD-ROMs put them in boxes and mailed them to your customersthe best you could hope for would be a [--] percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that you have to change the way you think. How much of your work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2017238734186451045)  2026-01-30T14:09Z 32.7K followers, 21.3K engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/2018351159296118784 http://x.com/i/article/2018351159296118784"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2018351689397415948)  2026-02-02T15:51Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"This is your periodic reminder that professors at leading universities still view Marx as an economist worthy of consideration. Who was Marx Marx died in relative obscurity. He was not a major figure of his time. He was known in radical circles but his work had limited readership and he attended his funeral with few people. His global prominence surged after [----] via the Bolshevik Revolution and Soviet promotion. It was understood that his economic theories could not hold. Contemporary and later economists dismissed his theories (labor theory of value etc.) as obviously flawed. It is or"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2018677613519163417)  2026-02-03T13:27Z 32.7K followers, 17K engagements


"Not a good look for Chomsky. From The Guardian : The close friendship that Noam Chomsky maintained with Jeffrey Epstein continued being detailed extensively among millions of investigative records pertaining to the late convicted sex offender recently released by the US justice department including Chomsky fantasizing about the Caribbean island. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019228570346836162 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019228570346836162"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019228570346836162)  2026-02-05T01:56Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Many young people seem to think that an academic career is a great idea in [----]. This is your periodic reminder that a lot of people (often in an invisible manner) serve the system as cheap labour until they are exhausted and fall out. When choosing a career do not look at how well the top 1% do. It is likely you won't be in the top 1%. Look at how well the median person does. You may not care about having a high income and lots of employment opportunities when you are [--] or [--]. but by the time you are [--] or [--] you may feel differently. Importantly: watch where the crowd is going and DO NOT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019431002938953865)  2026-02-05T15:20Z 32.7K followers, 57.4K engagements


"Your Playstation runs FreeBSD. Not everything is Linux"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019599875990790646)  2026-02-06T02:31Z 32.7K followers, 74.5K engagements


"Many of the best engineers are from Eastern Europe. It is obvious to anyone who has worked in tech. So why hasnt a country like Poland been a leading economic power If you have work experience in dysfunctional environments you know the answer. Technical excellence means nothing without the proper culture. The number of excellent engineers stuck unable to deploy and gain expertise is enormous. It is probably the greatest obstacle to prosperity. Look at what happened to Poland since [----]. Why [----] It marked the fall of socialism in Eastern Europe. Poland got its first freely elected president"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019779865172496634)  2026-02-06T14:27Z 32.7K followers, 34.7K engagements


"I believe that the Turing test has been passed. I believe Turing would agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019897567824511040)  2026-02-06T22:14Z 32.7K followers, 31.3K engagements


"So we are clear: GPT [---] passed the Turing test. Formally so. The Turing test does not require everything to be fooled. Nor does it give you infinite time to test. I believe that the Turing test has been passed. I believe Turing would agree. https://t.co/QIoLitxcY8 I believe that the Turing test has been passed. I believe Turing would agree. https://t.co/QIoLitxcY8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019907905386848298)  2026-02-06T22:55Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@neuralamp4ever That would not invalidate the Turing test. https://x.com/lemire/status/2019907905386848298s=20 So we are clear: GPT [---] passed the Turing test. Formally so. The Turing test does not require everything to be fooled. Nor does it give you infinite time to test. https://t.co/y4xijAWPo4 https://x.com/lemire/status/2019907905386848298s=20 So we are clear: GPT [---] passed the Turing test. Formally so. The Turing test does not require everything to be fooled. Nor does it give you infinite time to test. https://t.co/y4xijAWPo4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019907997791658181)  2026-02-06T22:56Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@reg_expression @grok Was the default operating system of the PlayStations' Linux"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2019951905955275222)  2026-02-07T01:50Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"I watched the @dwarkesh_sp podcast with @elonmusk. Elon speculates as he likes to do. Still Elons ideas are not boring and thats what makes them worth listening to. It comes up at some point during the podcast: we should avoid being boring. Being boring is death. In some sense boring literally is death. You know when you feel like a random Netflix show would be better than the meeting youre in At that moment you are dead in a real sense. Your brain stops recording. It stops working. A few intriguing possibilities are raised by Elon. One of them is the construction of large data centers in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020142520345247967)  2026-02-07T14:28Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"People in Canada should be asking 'Who is John Galt'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020229365859320295)  2026-02-07T20:13Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@geofflangdale @dwarkesh_sp @elonmusk Sure but my account does take this into account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020308742257230056)  2026-02-08T01:28Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"When programming we chain functions together. Function A calls function B. And so forth. You do not have to program this way you could write an entire program using a single function. It would be a http://x.com/i/article/2020591505531170816 http://x.com/i/article/2020591505531170816"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020592879798718939)  2026-02-08T20:17Z 32.7K followers, 23K engagements


"You can also subscribe at my blog (no ads): Daniel Lemire "The cost of a function call" in Daniel Lemire's blog February [--] [----] https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/08/the-cost-of-a-function-call/ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/08/the-cost-of-a-function-call/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020594670708170897)  2026-02-08T20:24Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"'The Consensus says . ' or 'The Science says . ' USSR did science. China always did science. Germans did science in [----]. The outcomes can be quite different. There is no magical recipe to get at the truth. What there is however is a set of beliefs that might be superior: [--]. Belief that there is an objective truth to be found. [--]. Belief that seeking truth honestly is inherently good. Both of these have been put into question by contemporary scientists. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020597520276009298 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020597520276009298"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020597520276009298)  2026-02-08T20:36Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@mpweiher I see https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3689492.3690052 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3689492.3690052"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020605346876907720)  2026-02-08T21:07Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@geofflangdale My friend Roger Schank was one of Epstein friends. He told me he just had no idea. Schank was not one to BS. So I can excuse people for hanging out with Epstein. Now visiting a certain island thats another story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020674794807578679)  2026-02-09T01:43Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Being better trained can get you to a higher salary. However if the best training was offered by schools then companies would count years of study as more valuable than job experience. And thus they would pay someone with a masters degree more than someone with two years of experience. But they often dont. Typically in tech each year of schooling beyond the minimum is counted as a partial year of experience at best. Mathematically it tends to make these additional years of study a net loss. Your best strategy is to study just enough to get your foot in the door. We can see it at the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020920291224936517)  2026-02-09T17:58Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Big-O complexity is a scheme by Big Math to entice young people to look up to Mathematicians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2020922428608966695)  2026-02-09T18:07Z 32.7K followers, 21.8K engagements


"@geofflangdale In my case I used about nothing from my university education in my professional life. My most useful class was on Balzac. I learned a lot from Balzac"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2021017376204980684)  2026-02-10T00:24Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"The ChatGPT breakthrough is probably the most quickly and broadly adopted technology in the history of humanity. The adoption curve is nearly vertical. ChatGPT was launched in [----]. In [----] I gave an internal talk where I explained how impactful it is: most quizzes and standard tests can be defeated by AI. By [----] I had pushed for AI chatbots in some classes. Today I estimate that nearly all students use AI. I believe that the majority of software developers use AI to help them code. Nearly everyone on Earth has access to these AI tools. They are everywhere. Last night I was giving an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2021226164878995469)  2026-02-10T14:14Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"For the human makers of things the incompletenesses and inconsistencies of our ideas become clear only during implementation. (Brooks)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2021261628973744548)  2026-02-10T16:35Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@jfrechette51 Well said. You have a French Canadian last name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2021267239077351500)  2026-02-10T16:57Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"He says not needed so I take his claim to mean the following thing. By the end of the year they will go from a prompt or a series of prompt to a working binary program that will be highly optimized. Whether you want this software running in your pacemaker or your car is another story. With my interpretation it seems quite likely to happen this year. Don't you agree"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2022139259335946743)  2026-02-13T02:42Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Lconomiste mrite Fortin: En fait lappui des milieux daffaires un taux dimmigration lev a pu crer une boucle de rtroaction explosive. Aprs quOttawa et Qubec ont acquiesc leur demande et accept un nombre de plus en plus lev dimmigrants (permanents et temporaires) la pnurie de main-duvre na pas t allge et elle sest probablement intensifie contrairement aux attentes. Les milieux daffaires ayant interprt ce rsultat comme une preuve que limmigration tait insuffisante leur demande sest poursuivie avec la mme intensit ou avec une intensit accrue dans une nouvelle ronde en faveur dun niveau"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2022469185205670024)  2026-02-14T00:33Z 32.7K followers, [---] engagements


"They submitted a complex case to an AI and it delivered. It was the best possible legal document. And all done in seconds for pennies. How can any of us compete We cant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2001864355160429043)  2025-12-19T03:57Z 32.7K followers, 1.6M engagements


"Suppose that to publish a video game you needed to submit your game to anonymous reviewers. all of them video game designers. The video game designers would review your game and either reject it or demand changes. And you'd need to satisfy them before you get your game published. Of course people would tune their video games to please the other video game designers. Do you think that the games would be good Well. Since the 1970s science works this way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2005785125271798111)  2025-12-29T23:36Z 32.7K followers, 92.2K engagements


"A question I often ask top software engineers I meet is: How often do you read research papers The most common answer is a silent grunt. Top engineers do read some research papers occasionally but they mostly ignore 99.9% of the papers that are supposed to mark advancements in their own field of activity. This even extends to engineers who hold a PhD and are actively doing industrial research. I am sure this is not limited to computing and extends to most businesses. What should you make of my observation Firstly we risk overestimating the contribution that a formal research paper makes to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1972350886169981311)  2025-09-28T17:21Z 32.7K followers, 50.1K engagements


"Notepad++ the popular text editor used by programmers was hacked by the Chinese government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2018185946580025635)  2026-02-02T04:53Z 32.7K followers, 166K engagements


"People around you do stupid things: Should you be sad or angry In many cases you should rejoice. Why Its obvious if youre an investor. When other investors are misallocating their capital it creates an opportunity for you to bet against them. Everybody is pouring money into company A but you believe company B is the real winner Invest in company B. Its stock is probably undervalued. The same principle applies to every area of life. Your employer insists that everyone work in a silly unproductive wayand everyone is going along with it Bet against them. Your options You can leave for a better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2022294696542851338)  2026-02-13T13:00Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Blog post: Daniel Lemire "AI: Igniting the Spark to End Stagnation" in Daniel Lemire's blog February [--] [----] https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/ai-igniting-the-spark-to-end-stagnation/ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/15/ai-igniting-the-spark-to-end-stagnation/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2023057581380444421)  2026-02-15T15:31Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"When programming we need to allocate memory and then deallocate it. If you program in C you get used to malloc/free functions. Sadly this leaves you vulnerable to memory leaks: unrecovered memory. http://x.com/i/article/2023126054764761090 http://x.com/i/article/2023126054764761090"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2023127382211862727)  2026-02-15T20:08Z 32.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Excellent question. The conventional explanation behind the Canadian stagnation is more or less than we have all the innovation we are going to get. The easy wins are covered. Progress now is going to be difficult because we are so incredibly advanced. We can't get much better. There is no need to rethink about institutions. A sufficiently breakthrough forces us to rethink where we are and what we can do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/2023128413351878854)  2026-02-15T20:12Z 32.7K followers, [--] engagements


"The report of Java's demise has been greatly overstated. Were about to release a major version in the next few days and it looks like the community is ready for it. Were currently the most trending Java repository on GitHub Thank you all and keep the stars coming https://t.co/q4CXv0iQC1 Were about to release a major version in the next few days and it looks like the community is ready for it. Were currently the most trending Java repository on GitHub Thank you all and keep the stars coming https://t.co/q4CXv0iQC1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1942344567656747029)  2025-07-07T22:06Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"We're crafting a sleek C++ library for semantic versioning built with the sharpest tools in the modern C++23 toolbox. If you're itching for a fun challenging project to flex your coding chops jump in and join the party Our C++ codebase seeks to embrace raw power and elegance. Come contribute to something that doesn't nanny you into submission while still delivering rock-solid versioning logic. https://github.com/ada-url/version_weaver/ https://github.com/ada-url/version_weaver/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1942346931742859375)  2025-07-07T22:16Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@geofflangdale Right. So people are told that having kids is the end of the road. It is not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1942374498080108820)  2025-07-08T00:05Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@alcebaid @ValidScience It is likely that we can do fun optimizations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1942550070651711558)  2025-07-08T11:43Z 27.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@geofflangdale People who think that prediction the future is doable should write down their predictions and wait. It is just not feasible. Some people get lucky some of the time. But there is no science involved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943085224247660591)  2025-07-09T23:09Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@damageboy This is one core [---] MB. I don't expect that this will run on multiple channels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943086088005792101)  2025-07-09T23:13Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I am curious what school @DataRepublican has in mind. Very few professors (you know with a PhD and so forth) know how to use AWS. They are almost all eager to teach UML though I really don't think that the curriculum has changed that much. Intro to programming databases some software engineering algorithms and data structures blablabla Look. Why would you it change You got your lecture notes from Joe who retired in [----] and it has been fine all this time. Why would you change anything I think that most CS degrees are highly predictable. Ok. To be fair some of them switched to Python first as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943088809828044916)  2025-07-09T23:24Z 27.7K followers, [--] engagements


"I actually want to work using a VR/AR headset. I did work with such a headset and I loved it. And yet Apple could not get me to care about the 'Vision Pro'. I did not even think about buying one. Now I hear that they want to make it lighter and more powerful. I just want something that can connect to my laptop. I get where they are trying to go but I don't want something to replace my laptop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943301128034132056)  2025-07-10T13:27Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@geofflangdale We have to be realistic. I would get elected prime minister of Canada. I would call Anthropic : can you help me automate the government. They would answer positively. How well and how fast would it go Not very well and not very fast"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943653620659913076)  2025-07-11T12:48Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"A famous professor once told me that students underestimate our work. Students feel that they did all the work during their PhD. What did the professor do Give advice here and there What value is that Professors like other leaders can provide immense value. but it is not always tangible. What value did Steve Jobs bring He did not code the software. He did not build the phones or even the assembly lines. I believe that the same phenomenon applies to AI. Tools like @grok ChatGPT Claude. may sometimes appear to do all of the work when solving simple tasks. But if you just switch over the person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943674589256528095)  2025-07-11T14:11Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Just [--] years ago Intel was a giant. You should have shorted Intel you would have made a fortune"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943724236347933092)  2025-07-11T17:29Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@geofflangdale The switch thrives on indie games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1943824898402439633)  2025-07-12T00:09Z 27.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Several 'AI leaders' are anti-human because it is the dominant paradigm in academia and it has been so for many decades. Academia has been framing humans as disruptors to planetary systems. It is anti-civilizational. Ehrlichs Population Bomb viewed humans as resource-consuming variables in finite ecosystems predicting collapse and advocating authoritarian controls. Every prediction by Ehrlich turned out to be incorrect but far from being discredited he is still popular in academic circles. Many academic leaders view human beings as essentially disposable. They typically look down on culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1944430696954515953)  2025-07-13T16:16Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"If the programming work you need to do is just 'established knowledge' the LLM can multiply your productivity by a factor of ten or more. So if you are working for an IT department and all they have for you is boring routine work and you are teleworking. then you can pretty much either find a second job or just become really good at video games. It is hard to tell how highly skilled programmers are impacted by LLMs. But I suspect that we are quite far from a revolution. I always disliked and deactivated conventional autocomplete tools. I had long debates with fellow programmers telling that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1944738237454360922)  2025-07-14T12:38Z 27.8K followers, 10.2K engagements


"@federicolois I use LLMs a lot just to be clear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1944840744436466092)  2025-07-14T19:25Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@Love2Code Here is what it looks for me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1944901938585252320)  2025-07-14T23:28Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@_neonsunset It is not surprising that one can beat Redis. My understanding of KeyDB is that it is based on better parallelization. So how the benchmarks is designed in important"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1945331469041168888)  2025-07-16T03:55Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"The next major release of simdjson will include support for C++26 static (compile-time) reflection. To be clear it means that you will be able to turn your own data types into JSON strings and go from JSON strings to data types. If you are into advanced C++ or you just like to help make the documentation better please review our release candidate on GitHub. I want this release to be good so it will probably be delayed for a few weeks until we can make it really good. Sadly it is still awkward to test C++26 features given the lack of immediate support. but that's coming soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1945516553031532972)  2025-07-16T16:11Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The official real (chained) GDP per capita in Canada (Q1) since [----]. Between [----] and [----] (20 years) we became 35% richer. That's a 1.5% gain per year on average. Between [----] and [----] (20 years) we became 10% richer. That's less than 0.5% gain per year on average. Between [----] and [----] (5 years) we became less than 1.5% richer. The gain per year is less than [---] %. These levels of growth are similar to Soviet Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1945624183658221994)  2025-07-16T23:18Z 27.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@geofflangdale On the plus side ChatGPT can solve your trig problems for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946023283544961243)  2025-07-18T01:44Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@alcebaid @markpapadakis There is a difference between something that requires specialized knowledge (SIMD) and might be difficult to master and something that it is difficult to make work at all. A rotary phone is difficult to use. Yes there is a learning curve but thats not why it went away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946635040584077530)  2025-07-19T18:15Z 27.7K followers, [--] engagements


"I am willing to put place a public bet (100$ to the charity chosen by the winner) that computer science and related fields will continue to be popular in the coming two years. No crash in sight. Before you bet against me check the historical data. The dot-com crash and following massive reduction in funding saw a reduction by half of the number of students in computer science. And it did take a decade to recover. It might happen again. But the dot-com crash was brutal. Entire business domains were wiped out. We massively over invested in the web and many of these investments proved to be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946683571789570296)  2025-07-19T21:28Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements


"We have had ChatGPT for years how many cures did it come up with How many scientific innovations did it produce Of course we may eradicate all diseases in the next ten years. It may happen. But what evidence do we have We still live in a world where Microsoft Windows file paths are limited to [---] characters by default. Many of us want faster progress but the fact that the highest prizes in Medicine Physics and Chemistry go to computer scientists is not entirely reassuring. Is better software the cure for most of our problems Software is definitely eating the world but how do we get to folks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946773254057672743)  2025-07-20T03:24Z 27.8K followers, 11.8K engagements


"@wangzhr4 "It already beat PhDs in many areas." Show me a PhD thesis worth reading written by ChatGPT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946782912583705009)  2025-07-20T04:03Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements


"Healthcare and education are not free. Ever. We measure how capitalistic a country (i.e. free market) is by its economic freedom index (as per the Fraser Institute) here are the countries you mention ranked (2024 ranking): Canada: [--] Denmark: [--] Norway: [--] Spain: [--] Sweden: [--] Germany: [--] Denmark and Canada are in the top [--] of the most capitalistic countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1946883249369657463)  2025-07-20T10:41Z 27.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@franklynd We were promised marvellous cures after the human genome was mapped. The human genome was mapped and nothing happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1947005571309207787)  2025-07-20T18:47Z 27.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@martin_f_foster If this was in Canada the label would be made bilingual (French/English) by law. I am not in Quebec I am in Italy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1947334126107025717)  2025-07-21T16:33Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements


"If you are in Venice in a remote corner there is this great restaurant. Highly recommended"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1948038060513329285)  2025-07-23T15:10Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Our CPUs were designed for small models (code). GPUs were designed for large models (graphics). Before the current AI revolution CPUs were the dominant platform. Nvidia was the big winner of the recent cycle. Nvidia is not the only play. Amazon has its own specialized processors AWS Trainium and Inferentia. Apple had its neural engine. Google has its TPUs. It is hard to predict the future but increased bandwidth and more fast memory all around should definitely be a standard expectation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1948423956672782575)  2025-07-24T16:44Z 27.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@JustineTunneys llamafile can do inference at high speed on CPUs. It is a small model and the AMD EPYC 9575F is not cheap. I dont know how the power usage per unit of work compares between different hardware solutions. Thats what we have today. I cant predict the future but it is almost certain that folks at Intel AMD Qualcomm are working on getting a lot more bandwidth on their processors. Doing inference directly on commodity CPUs with large models seems like a natural step forward. https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/llamafile#results"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1948650099883602198)  2025-07-25T07:42Z 28.8K followers, [---] engagements


"I do not get angry often but bad software gets my blood boiling. Here is an example. Many banking mobile applications in Canada will just stop working. You may get an obscure error message or just a spinning wheel. When it happens you need to update the app in the app store. The application is unable to check the version and report back a meaningful error message. It gets me very angry because it is not difficult to fix. I am not angry because a mistake was made. We all make mistakes. But we have had banking apps for over a decade. People ought to know what the failing points are. But nobody"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1949393620324262379)  2025-07-27T08:57Z 27.8K followers, 19.9K engagements


"The JSON format requires numbers to be actual numbers: Inf and NaN are not accepted. If you produce non-compliant JSON using NaN or Inf or Infinity it will generate errors when trying to parse in Python or JavaScript. JSON is valuable because it is portable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1950714238617469118)  2025-07-31T00:24Z 28K followers, [----] engagements


"@yagiznizipli @Cloudflare Exciting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1950714349082853526)  2025-07-31T00:25Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@SendaoTrust "unicode behavior is undefined""  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1951058953548488758)  2025-07-31T23:14Z 27.8K followers, [--] engagements


"Andrew Ng suggests that China might overtake the US on AI. The gist of the argument is that China is leading in open models (those you can freely download) even though the US dominates overall (on the proprietary models). If Meta and Le Cun with Llama cannot keep ahead of the Chinese enterprises I am not quite sure *what* can be done. There is very little moat. Despite everything the US did to slow China they still move forward. So what is happening It is not just about AI. A long time ago now @mattwridley warned us. If the West keeps up with the anti-science anti-engineering narratives the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1951480228879933540)  2025-08-02T03:08Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"In my data warehousing courses I tell students not to use a REAL type for money. The type INTEGER is usually fine though there are specialized types that are even more convenient. I used to take this for granted but students even advanced students are often confused. This summer in my student evaluations I even got a student who wrote a small essay on why I am wrong and why the REAL type is the correct type for financial data. We do not avoid the REAL type because of the accumulation of smaller errors. It is far simpler. Just type: SELECT [----] + [----] 0.30; Under many database systems this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952018224884719657)  2025-08-03T14:46Z 27.9K followers, 20.2K engagements


"AMD is my current champion with respect to SIMD processing. The Zen [--] architecture has [--] units capable of processing 512-bit registers. There is nothing else like it out there on commodity processors. Apple processors are fantastic but as far as SIMD processing goes they are not even close to AMD. https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/simdjson&eval=55ded682564c03f676d77dbc1f8de67e27c7aadc#metrics https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/simdjson&eval=55ded682564c03f676d77dbc1f8de67e27c7aadc#metrics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952389971303633126)  2025-08-04T15:23Z 28.1K followers, 23.2K engagements


"AMD has crushed Intel in the scope of ten years. From a minor play to the dominant player. AMD is my current champion with respect to SIMD processing. The Zen [--] architecture has [--] units capable of processing 512-bit registers. There is nothing else like it out there on commodity processors. Apple processors are fantastic but as far as SIMD processing goes they are https://t.co/bRWfbqKzgK AMD is my current champion with respect to SIMD processing. The Zen [--] architecture has [--] units capable of processing 512-bit registers. There is nothing else like it out there on commodity processors. Apple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952390920852414562)  2025-08-04T15:27Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@pkese [--]. Yes that is what I mean. [--]. Apple has not shown any interest in SVE thus far but I have not claimed anything about what they might do. I do not have any knowledge about Apple future plans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952399746640781396)  2025-08-04T16:02Z 27.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@wogglebug_te Intel is using TSMC. Same as AMD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952402149469507837)  2025-08-04T16:12Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@EgorBo Right. But we are getting DDR6 which is going to push the DRAM boundary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952492957791318154)  2025-08-04T22:12Z 27.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@dahankzter AMD is better than Intel by some margin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952493917930459185)  2025-08-04T22:16Z 27.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@BlaineGaither @pkese Currently Apple has often excellent memory bandwidth at the CPU level compared to other systems. That's a significant advantage we are about to get a bandwidth boost in DRAM. I am not sure about costs. Memory is often quite cheap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1952522904673104023)  2025-08-05T00:11Z 27.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@Alecazam123 @geofflangdale The rumor has it that next-gen consoles (2027) will use AMD Zen [--]. This means *great* AVX-512 support is quite likely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1953509066413605205)  2025-08-07T17:30Z 27.9K followers, [--] engagements


"There are more Linux gamers than macOS gamers at least as far as the Steam store is concerned"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1953811030435315776)  2025-08-08T13:30Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"We have probably reached the point where my wife spends more time listening to ChatGPT than to listening to me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1954202728462193025)  2025-08-09T15:26Z 28.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@TommyYesItsMe Right. You can use SWAR although it is going to generate many more instructions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1954379166767346122)  2025-08-10T03:07Z 28.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Over the years Ive worked with many students some now thriving in the software industry. The trait that sets the successful ones apart Leadership. My best research assistants took initiative helping without being prompted. Most however waited for me to organize their tasks. Our education system often guides students along rigid paths encouraging compliance over creativity. This suits anxious students who prefer direction but its counterproductive. Employers rarely value workers who need constant guidance and such individuals are unfit for leadership roles. Lets be frank: when we talk about AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1954891031373332724)  2025-08-11T13:01Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@tegila Is this true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1955042209557844301)  2025-08-11T23:02Z 28.1K followers, [--] engagements


"The first rule of programming is: do not make things worse than they are. Chesterton's fence is the idea that you might encounter an apparently unnecessary fence in the country. It might be tempting to just remove it. But if you don't know why the fence is there you might be making a costly mistake. The principle of Chesterton's fence applied to an established software project suggests that it is preferable not to modify the code architecture or processes without a thorough understanding of their purpose and implications. Any change whether a refactor update or removal must be robustly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1957788389555519935)  2025-08-19T12:55Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"South Korea vs Argentina : GPD per capita. Growth matters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1958038595245109689)  2025-08-20T05:29Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Following the AI revolution I don't think anyone is likely to do fire the junior employees if you mean 'junior as in less experienced'. However it seems unavoidable that the skill threshold has gone up. I expect employers to raise the bar when hiring software professionals. The fellow who is hired to fill in JSON configuration files: his days are counted. The good news is that young people can easily train themselves to higher skill levels using AI. The secondary effect is that it will increase the disconnection between college degrees and what employers seek. Colleges will be slow to adapt."  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1958145670625243275)  2025-08-20T12:34Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"If you work in an office look around you. Is more work getting done with fewer people thanks to AI I certainly do not see any such productivity gain. Given that ChatGPT and friends are used worldwide. you would expect that if it lead to large productivity increases you would see it in the data of several countries. The productivity growth in Canada in [----] was 0.2%. In the province where the tech sector is concentrated (Ontario) the productivity growth was slightly negative (-0.2%). This means that people work just as many hours for the same output. Of course governement-measured productivity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1958505126856933627)  2025-08-21T12:23Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@annasimonofff @zehavoc Interpreters are highly qualified people who translate in real time. They are hired by important politicians news agencies and business people. They are not getting replaced by google translate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1958675878277534199)  2025-08-21T23:41Z 28.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Interpreters and translators are different jobs. But if you refer to translators you cannot replace a certified professional translator by Google Translate. Though there are market fluctuations you can look around in Canada. Translation companies are still around. If you come to Montreal and you have official documents that are not in French you need to work with a certified translator. They will not accept Google Translate. The Canadian government has been using automated translation for specific tasks for decades such as for weather systems. Today being a translator is a highly skilled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1959264370611146839)  2025-08-23T14:40Z 28.3K followers, [--] engagements


"In software we mostly care about two metrics: whether the code does what we want and whether it does so efficiently. Often efficiency isnt critical. Keep building web services in Pythonthats fine. But when performance mattersand it eventually doespeople sometimes assume theyre facing a Pareto distribution: one bottleneck that if eliminated will drastically improve performance. This holds true at the micro level in isolated benchmarks but not broadly. Consider shopping for a TV. You first head to the TV section then narrow it down to the sizes you need. Next you optimize for price seeking the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1959283926414873008)  2025-08-23T15:57Z 28.3K followers, 30.5K engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/1959705987025448960 http://x.com/i/article/1959705987025448960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1959706839647699232)  2025-08-24T19:58Z 28.4K followers, 14.4K engagements


"The same company that gives you Microsoft Teams also gives you Visual Studio Code. I am spending my life by hating Microsoft products but when it comes to the VS Code I absolutely love it. No IDE comes close VS Code on mac and linux in terms of speed and UI/UX. I am spending my life by hating Microsoft products but when it comes to the VS Code I absolutely love it. No IDE comes close VS Code on mac and linux in terms of speed and UI/UX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1959712543909282150)  2025-08-24T20:20Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@CAD_Diabolo I like Linux a lot but I use an Apple laptop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1959761377314341371)  2025-08-24T23:34Z 28.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Canadians are clamoring for more AI regulations whatever that means. The State has drawn all authority to itself. (Pierre Manent) Why are people clamoring for AI regulations We live in a complex world where the only center is the State. The State is thus called to be our protector. But the State often does a poor job. To escape bad rules and bad laws we have two main options: 1.Just ignore the law and regulations. You can either act as a criminal or pay corrupt officials to look the other way. 2.Move so fast that the State cannot catch you. Ambitious software developers in the USA have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1961419523665301887)  2025-08-29T13:23Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Base salaries for workers in AI with up to three years experience increased by 12% from last year to this year the largest gain of any experience group. The AI staffing firm also found that people with AI experience are being promoted to management roles roughly twice as fast as their counterparts. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-jobs-entry-level-salary-ab2a11c0 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-jobs-entry-level-salary-ab2a11c0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1961585385181466952)  2025-08-30T00:22Z 28.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@JonFraserTF @cselley Come on. @grok could tell you as much:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1962688012497604669)  2025-09-02T01:24Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@sebpaquet Quebec does not have vaccine mandates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1963465744974561600)  2025-09-04T04:54Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements


"My friend Peter Turney used Microsoft Bing Image Creator to generate images from carefully crafted prompts. He then framed the images"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1963573626097017093)  2025-09-04T12:03Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@frankdedomiseur Lintelligence artificielle. OpenAI bleu"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1964376031051301142)  2025-09-06T17:11Z 28.6K followers, [---] engagements


"A promising young Canadian asked me for advice this summer. He had is master's in robotics from a decent school. Where could he go Jokingly or not I told him that he should move to China. We don't build leading edge robots in Montreal. There is a tragedy at play in countries like Canada. When I was a young man we had people working on nuclear fusion advanced pharmaceuticals and space technology right here in Montreal. It is mostly gone. Local politicians like to pretend that we are leaders in AI but all we have are extensions of powerful American companies or heavily subsidized jobs. Want a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1964830412053893446)  2025-09-07T23:17Z 28.6K followers, 24.9K engagements


"AI is unlikely to cure cancer. I think we might make significant scientific and medical progress in the near future but it is important to understand the state we are in. We are in a decade-long scientific stagnation. Outside of computing progress is historically slow. We struggle to find who should receive a Nobel prize in Chemistry or Physics. Some will tell you that we have simply exploited all the low-hanging fruits. Somehow just as the 1970s arrived we reached the apogee of scientific progress. I have another much more credible explanation. Let us examine stagnations in general. During"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1965803484487602592)  2025-09-10T15:44Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"New release of the simdjson library Version 4.0.0 is a major release of the simdjson library introducing a range of new features through extensive community contributions. A key addition is the builder API which simplifies converting C++ data structures to JSON strings. For instance a vector of vectors or a custom struct like Car containing fields such as make model year and tire_pressure can be serialized to JSON with minimal code such as std::string json = simdjson::to_json(c). We added support for std::ranges in the DOM API as well as JSON Path support for wildcards. Experimental support"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1966294881820684766)  2025-09-12T00:16Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Software profilers are tools that help you identify the functions or segments of code that take up the most time (or other ressources). My son just graduated from university in computer science and he was never told once about profilers. Yet he did take courses that had a strong emphasis on performance. Of course I told him about profilers and it helped him identify a problem with a piece of software he had built. Yet just like you can produce correct software without a debugger you can produce fast software without a profiler. I hardly use either of those things. I know many software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1966483600183878125)  2025-09-12T12:46Z 28.6K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Here is what a pundit wrote in [----]. (Hint: it is entirely wrong.) Now the opposite applies: it's likely computers will be less performant a year from now. Hammered by the finance of physics and the weaponisation of optimisation Moore's Law has hit the wall bounced off and reversed direction. We're driving backwards now: all things IT will become slower harder and more expensive. That doesn't mean there won't some rare wins GPUs and other dedicated hardware have a bit more life left in them. But for the mainstay of IT general-purpose computing last month may be as good as it ever gets. Still"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1966516655892087034)  2025-09-12T14:58Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@mitsuhiko @awesomekling This woman got raped but it is unfortunate that I feel that she did not debate honestly. Gross"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1966530361011118502)  2025-09-12T15:52Z 28.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Our processors do not keep getting better because we do more of the same. Every single technique eventually reaches a plateau. If you only have one tool then there is only so much you can do. We can predict with confidence that the same is true with LLM (ChatGPT and friends). If we just do more of the same we eventually plateau. No more progress. And that's why the soviet approach does not work. You cannot plan out the future. But you can build a culture of innovation where new ideas are tested and eventually put in practice. I have no idea where LLMs will go in the future. But I can say with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1966544702313804256)  2025-09-12T16:49Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@PhilipGreenspun I guess that you don't have a job requiring you to use Microsoft Teams. Give it a try You'll 'love' the experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1967985454294454667)  2025-09-16T16:14Z 28.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@Love2Code Oh Oh. You are such an 'Elon Musk' (Tesla reference.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1968471900805267585)  2025-09-18T00:27Z 28.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@MythicDreidel @RyanRozbiani Please dont hand them out to Hamas. But thanks for the post"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1969562664985588025)  2025-09-21T00:41Z 28.6K followers, [----] engagements


"http://x.com/i/article/1969848290834341888 http://x.com/i/article/1969848290834341888"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1969848513224729038)  2025-09-21T19:37Z 28.8K followers, 11K engagements


"The initials of the main contributor to Microsoft STL library are STL. Stephan T Lavavej. True story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970539802136285481)  2025-09-23T17:24Z 28.7K followers, [----] engagements


"For the last few decades we have defined science by the publication of peer-reviewed research. That is a scientist is someone who can write a paper and have it reviewed by two or four other scientists who conclude that the work is credible. Notice how this is a circular definition: it defines a scientist as effectively a member of a social club of people who agree on writing conventions. Contrary to what many people believe this system of peer review is recent. When Watson and Crick submitted their double helix paper to Nature in [----] it did not go to reviewers. Peer review became the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970838513747710282)  2025-09-24T13:11Z 28.8K followers, 10.8K engagements


"@humberto_jr_ How were lasers developed How did we get airplanes Engines LLM were developed at OpenAI. It would never have happened on campus. NASA cannot send anything in space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970871470566834291)  2025-09-24T15:22Z 28.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@fizzbhau LIGO is literally the greatest invention of humanity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970903403581845780)  2025-09-24T17:29Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Science is being defunded The National Science Foundation (NSF) when from $1 billion in [----] to $8.28 billion in [----]. Even accounting for inflation that's more than double. Compared to the 1920s and 1930s when Quantum Mechanics was invented we have orders of magnitude more funding for science. Let us see why that might be Ok. So we have Fermilab. What are they up to Oh Right. They have sustainability manager that looks at reducing the carbon footprint of the accelerators. That's great That makes for fantastic PowerPoints but new science Not so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970942408604205313)  2025-09-24T20:04Z 28.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@fizzbhau "current physics theories are working at the edge of physics possible by us on earth" How do you know "why software engineers need to take humanities before they start making sweeping generalizations about societies and development" I am not a software engineer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1970951592020148486)  2025-09-24T20:40Z 28.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@Matt_barlowe @awesomekling @dhh You appear to endorse a tweet that labels Charlie Kirk and those mourning him as fascists. Dehumanizing political opponents fuels justification for violence and contributed to Kirk's murder. It is immoral and dangerous behaviour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1971348493630685547)  2025-09-25T22:58Z 28.7K followers, [---] engagements


"In Is Russia Fascist (Cornell University Press) author Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of fascism has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putins regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism supposedly evidenced by Russias annexation of Crimea its historical revisionism attacks on liberal democratic values and its support for far-right movements in Europe. But at the same time Russia has branded itself as the worlds preeminent antifascist power because of its sacrifices during the Second World War while emphasizing how opponents to the Soviet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1972637275516268769)  2025-09-29T12:19Z 28.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@DonaldWelsh16 @ReginaWatteel Reaching as far as communist China Moscow Europe South America. If this was all done to bring down Trump it seems like an extraordinarily vast operation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1975539436390916604)  2025-10-07T12:31Z 28.9K followers, [--] engagements


"The consumer/producer paradox. When students want to pursue a PhD with me I used to ask them to tell me about the research papers they have read recently. I stopped bothering when I found out that they have usually never read a research paper. I was also told that it was unfair. Indeed getting into a PhD program is where you learn to read research papers I am told. So you somehow decide that what you want to do for a living is to dedicate decades to writing research papers but you barely know what they are about. And yes before you ask I had definitely read research papers well before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1975579759573704960)  2025-10-07T15:11Z 28.9K followers, 19K engagements


"@BolekBobcik Thanks for the good words. I definitely think that you are an outlier"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1975600293334102215)  2025-10-07T16:33Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Aesthetics matter. I gave a talk last week at a software shop. Two hundred engineers were present. I wore a tie. The man who invited me wore a tie. Can you guess how the [---] engineers were dressed Yeah. You guessed it. They all picked up a t-shirt that they found under their bed. I attended a large programming conference in Denver a few weeks ago. I shared a picture someone took of me with a friend back in Montreal. She said that my shoes were too casual. I told her: Never mind my shoes; I am the only one with a jacket and a tie in the whole place. I have had the pleasure of attending a great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1975928221976662357)  2025-10-08T14:16Z 29K followers, 17.2K engagements


"Nearly all reports are obviously going to be written by AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1977144620480946385)  2025-10-11T22:49Z 29K followers, [----] engagements


"@awesomekling @FrameworkPuter I have been burned before by Linux laptops. I'll wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1977398364627927219)  2025-10-12T15:38Z 29K followers, [---] engagements


"@pyvitor @awesomekling @FrameworkPuter Does it reliably go to sleep when you close the lid Does the sound stop working randomly Do the fonts look bad some of the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1977413590002151877)  2025-10-12T16:38Z 29K followers, [---] engagements


"@geofflangdale I think AMD fixed PEXT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1978201501890760794)  2025-10-14T20:49Z 29K followers, [---] engagements


"@geofflangdale @FUZxxl AMD is hiring. 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/1978232185392877668)  2025-10-14T22:51Z 29K followers, [---] engagements


"What I have learned about book publishing by Jacob Lund Fisker http://ff.im/-sIqL6"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/28859428259)  2010-10-27T04:20Z 25.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Julian Assange's back story (well researched) http://t.co/RPnOlZP http://is.gd/9TnAEo http://is.gd/9TnAEo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/52179210474766336)  2011-03-28T01:24Z 25.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Video showing a wide range of American leaders calling for the Assassination of Julian Assange http://t.co/FArKDi8 http://youtube.com/watchv=3Fab1IsCZzY http://youtube.com/watchv=3Fab1IsCZzY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/63761030488133632)  2011-04-29T00:26Z 25.3K followers, [--] engagements


"If you have never read the fable of the Dragon-Tyrant you could do worse with your time today https://x.com/cfenollosa/status/725324857819418624 https://x.com/cfenollosa/status/725324857819418624"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/725335506976931840)  2016-04-27T14:47Z 25.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Transient rapamycin treatment can increase lifespan and healthspan in middle-aged mice https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16351 https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e16351"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/770613319594106880)  2016-08-30T13:25Z 25.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@slothware I hope I get to meet you guys one day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/929192365377679360)  2017-11-11T03:41Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements


"20th anniversary with my sweet wife and my oldest son: champagne (the real stuff) and meat macaroni prepared by my wife. Ill follow with a Battlestar Galactica"  
[X Link](https://x.com/lemire/status/971193399117312000)  2018-03-07T01:18Z 28.5K followers, [--] engagements

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