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Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

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nadavrot / Matrix.md
Last active May 19, 2025 10:19
Efficient matrix multiplication

High-Performance Matrix Multiplication

This is a short post that explains how to write a high-performance matrix multiplication program on modern processors. In this tutorial I will use a single core of the Skylake-client CPU with AVX2, but the principles in this post also apply to other processors with different instruction sets (such as AVX512).

Intro

Matrix multiplication is a mathematical operation that defines the product of

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dacr / index.md
Last active May 11, 2025 11:26
David's programming examples knowledge base / published by https://github.com/dacr/code-examples-manager #fecafeca-feca-feca-feca-fecafecafeca/6e82bf2949cc61c919535ce35a58ebc93721c33

David's programming examples knowledge base

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@vegard
vegard / kernel-dev.md
Last active June 16, 2025 11:22
Getting started with Linux kernel development

Getting started with Linux kernel development

Prerequisites

The Linux kernel is written in C, so you should have at least a basic understanding of C before diving into kernel work. You don't need expert level C knowledge, since you can always pick some things up underway, but it certainly helps to know the language and to have written some userspace C programs already.

It will also help to be a Linux user. If you have never used Linux before, it's probably a good idea to download a distro and get comfortable with it before you start doing kernel work.

Lastly, knowing git is not actually required, but can really help you (since you can dig through changelogs and search for information you'll need). At a minimum you should probably be able to clone the git repository to a local directory.

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n1snt / Oh my ZSH with zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autocomplete.md
Last active June 19, 2025 14:15
Oh my ZSH with zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-fast-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autocomplete.md

Oh my zsh.

Oh My Zsh

Install ZSH.

sudo apt install zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh

Install Oh my ZSH.

@p4bl0-
p4bl0- / 00_readme.md
Last active January 2, 2025 09:03
A complete compiler for a simple language (in less than 150 LoC)

This project is a tiny compiler for a very simple language consisting of boolean expression.

The language has two constants: 1 for true and 0 for false, and 4 logic gates: ! (not), & (and), | (or), and ^ (xor).

It can also use parentheses to manage priorities.

Here is its grammar in BNF format:

expr ::= "0" | "1"

@dicej
dicej / type-systems.txt
Last active December 17, 2024 08:24
Type system learning notes
Classes
* Keith Devlin - Introduction to Mathematical Thinking - https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking
* Michael Genesereth - Introduction to Logic - https://www.coursera.org/learn/logic-introduction
* Robert Harper - Homotopy Type Theory - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/courses/hott/
Books and Articles
* Benjamin C. Pierce - Types and Programming Languages - https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
* x775 - Introduction to Datalog - https://x775.net/2019/03/18/Introduction-to-Datalog.html
* Bartosz Milewski - Category Theory For Programmers - https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/
* Benjamin C. Pierce et al. - Software Foundations - https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/

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kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active June 18, 2025 19:55
macOS Internals

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

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