Riggs Swanepoel

@binary_specific

A father that loves his kids, technology and nature!

Science & Technology

Cape Town, South Africa

Joined May 2011

150Posts 87Followers 261Following

YouTube

WILD CONNECTION - Award Winning Short Documentary

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Human creation - within the universe - has always worked in the realm of probability and not the absolute. Yet everywhere I go people are making absolute claims of the future with AI. Weird… I hope we still get to build systems. I consider this to be a creative process.

NIK

@ns123abc

May 23

Anthropic researchers: “Even if AI progress completely stalls today and we don’t reach AGI… the current systems are already capable of automating ALL white-collar jobs within the next 5 five years” It’s over.

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ThePrimeagen

@ThePrimeagen

Apr 17

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wangbin579

@wangbin579

Apr 13

PostgreSQL finally finished the test. In this case, MySQL was 360 times faster. The chart below shows the bottleneck in PostgreSQL — experienced people will recognize the issue at a glance. No wonder it’s rarely used in Chinese internet companies.

wangbin579's tweet image. PostgreSQL finally finished the test. In this case, MySQL was 360 times faster. The chart below shows the bottleneck in PostgreSQL — experienced people will recognize the issue at a glance. No wonder it’s rarely used in Chinese internet companies.

Riggs Swanepoel

@binary_specific

Apr 9

The most important take away for me is not the nifty numbers per se but the idea that your process/program moves through a series of finite states and the collective time it took to complete is called performance. Also, small tends to get big - it’s a pattern

World of Engineering

@engineers_feed

Apr 9

Numbers every computer engineer should know: 1. L1 cache reference: 1 ns 2. Branch mispredict: 3 ns 3. L2 cache reference: 4 ns 4. Mutex lock/unlock: 17 ns 5. Main memory reference: 100 ns 6. Compress 1K bytes with Zippy: 0.01 ms 7. Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network: 0.01…

Riggs Swanepoel

@binary_specific

Apr 9

As far as I can tell thus far, AI is just a better version of code-completion with just as many hits as misses within the IDE as before… you still have to tell it what to do and then mark its homework. My fear is caused by the ensuing code quality and (business) logic error…

Riggs Swanepoel

@binary_specific

Apr 9

As an old(er) software engineer, I am two weeks into my reluctant journey of investigating AI. My reluctance comes from a desensitisation to obligatory buzz of the industry. Feels like Ive seen this movie before… you have to have a story to be able to *sell* something, right?!

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GitHub

@github

Apr 7

Two decades. Countless commits. Approximately one billion merge conflicts. Happy birthday to our favorite little version control system, Git! 🥳

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Confluent

@confluentinc

Apr 7

Want to learn how Tableflow works and why it's such a big deal? Stream @tlberglund's lightboard video to learn how this 🆕 Confluent Cloud feature lets you completely skip the ETL and make your Apache Kafka topic data available as tables in your data lake:…

Riggs Swanepoel

@binary_specific

Oct 19, 2020

We are looking for Software Engineers in Cape Town and the rest of South Africa to join our company to build software and relationships! #javascriptdeveloper #javascript #NodeJS #Java linkedin.com/jobs/cap/view/…