I somehow had missed the annual “performance improvements in .net” post.
As usual, a delightful tour by Stephen, .net’s performance sommelier:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvements-in-net-10/

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.

from my link log —
Async Rust in ScyllaDB: performance, pitfalls, profiling.
https://www.scylladb.com/2022/01/12/async-rust-in-practice-performance-pitfalls-profiling/
saved 2022-01-13

Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
Learn how our developers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.

DL Dexter Lawrence on defense's performance vs. Cowboys https://www.giants.com/video/dl-dexter-lawrence-on-defense-s-performance-vs-cowboys

CPU-Refresh: AMDs Ryzen AI 400 werden teilweise schlechter
AMDs neu aufgelegte Prozessoren takten teilweise niedriger mit gleichzeitig weniger Performance-Kernen. Der Ryzen 7 9850X3D bekommt dagegen mehr Takt.
htt…

AWS unveils its 192-core Graviton5 processor, with an up to 25% performance boost over Graviton4, and says Graviton makes up 50% of AWS' new CPU capacity (About Amazon)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-graviton-5-cpu-amazon-ec2

AWS introduces Graviton5—the company’s most powerful and efficient CPU
Fifth generation chip provides the best price performance for a broad range of workloads in Amazon EC2.

from my link log —
High performance correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit floating point.
https://blog.sigplan.org/2021/08/26/high-performance-correctly-rounded-math-libraries-for-32-bit-floating-poi…

High Performance Correctly Rounded Math Libraries for 32-bit Floating Point Representations
Everyone uses math libraries. Surprisingly, mainstream math libraries do not produce correct results for several thousands of inputs. Developers are seldom aware of them, which affects reproducibil…

High Performance HTML to PNG API
The image generation API your LLM will love to use. Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free. No sign up required.
🖌️ #html

High Performance HTML to PNG API
Convert HTML and CSS to high-quality PNG images instantly. Perfect for dynamic OG images, social shares, and automated screenshots.

'We came to see Otis': Temptations' Otis Williams reflects on Marvin Gaye and Lions ahead of TNF performance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47195997/otis-williiams-temptations-detriot-lions-half-performance-marvin-…

Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these seemingly distinct languages can be bridged, then this session is for you! But don’t worry, you won’t need prior knowledge of economics or the arts! Joaquín Pereira (economist and dancer) invites you to a day-long lab where…

Degrowth cabaret comes to London (and other news)
Degrowth Cabaret! LONDON FRI 23 JANUARY 10.30am – 4.30pm Siobhan Davies Studios If you are an economist interested in performance, a performer interested in economics or simply curious in how these…

baseball: Baseball steroid use (2008)
Two networks representing steroid use among baseball players. First, a bipartite network of players and their steroid providers (of illegal performance-enhancing substances). Second, a one-mode projection of players, which are linked if they have a common supplier.
This network has 84 nodes and 84 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Projection

Rediscovered yesterday and again can't stop listening to this minimal, yet stunning, haunting, evocative live performance by loscil...
Nomadic Streams - VNM Festival 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fHWXxryfk

Evaluating OCR performance for assistive technology: effects of walking speed, camera placement, and camera type https://arxiv.org/html/2602.02223v1 Note that The vOICe for Android includes talking OCR to complement general sensory substitution

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

@… Wobei es da in den letzten Jahren schon nochmal ein paar Sprünge gab, aber halt nicht bei allen Herstellern.
4k-OLED-Panels in Laptops sehen schon echt _fantastisch_ aus. 5G Modems, die in der echten Welt 1000 MBit/s aus dem Stand mitten in der Pampa hinlegen, 8 TB große SSDs oder die Performance und Effizienz von arm64 (z.B. Apple Silicon oder Qualcomm X E…

#Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/kubernetes-1-35/

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad

Ein #Gravelbike für 3000€ und dann ein maximales Systemgewicht von 110kg.
Was soll dieser Quatsch?
https://www.imtest.de/mobilitaet-reise/ros

Rose Backroad GRX: (D)ein Gravelbike für jedes Abenteuer
Das Rose Backroad GRX kombiniert sportliche Performance und Vielseitigkeit, eignet sich aber besser für schnelle, intensive Fahrten als für entspannte Touren, bei denen Komfort an erster Stelle steht.

Raiders rookie's strong Week 13 performance makes Pete Carroll look bad https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-rookies-strong-week-13-performance-pete-carroll-look-b…

🤦🏻 Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
#politics

Golf lesson: Study shows political polarization hurts performance at work
Few workers face more scrutiny than professional athletes. Every movement is measured, every outcome quantified, and every performance evaluated against objective standards. So when UC Berkeley Haas researcher Tim Sels wondered how America's deepening political polarization was affecting workers' performance, he turned to one of the most comprehensive data sets on individual human performance: the PGA Tour.

„Borderlands 4“: Gearbox stampft Switch-2-Version ein
Die angekündigte Switch-2-Version von „Borderlands 4“ liegt auf Eis, bestätigt Take-Two. Der Shooter hat auf anderen Plattformen mit Performance zu kämpfen.
https://w…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- Highlights from Oumou Sangaré with BBC Concert Orchestra
Tonight, Soweto shares highlights from pioneering Malian vocalist Oumou Sangaré’s recent performance with the BBC Concert Orchestra as part of this year’s London Jazz Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mkd3

#whatdidyoudo has been updated to versión 1.1.0.
- Fixed: work around #OpenStreetMap API limit of 100 changesets (now limiting to 5000 changesets to prevent overload)
- Improved performance
- Improved caching

Intel details its 2nm 18A-process Panther Lake chips, showing major performance gains; laptops with Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 chips will debut on Jan. 27 (Michael Justin Allen Sexton/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-panther-lake-core-ultra…

another case of AGPLv3 being used extractively! https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4
MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license. - update README.md maintenance mode · minio/minio@27742d4

Just fixed an interesting and subtle shader performance bug.
Here I'm trying to recover a clock from a PAM-3 signal which consists of two consecutive filter blocks: the PAM edge detector (find level crossings and interpolate, accounting for the fact that the threshold changes depending on start/end symbol), and then the CDR PLL proper.
If you're not familiar with NSight Systems especially on complex multithreaded applications, there's a lot going on here even though I…

From 'Hamilton' to Issa Rae to Philip Glass: Here's a List of Kennedy Center Cancellations (Michaela Towfighi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/arts/kennedy-center-performance-cancellations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p39#a260203p39

»Was ist Rust?
Bei Rust müssen Entwickler nicht zwischen Geschwindigkeit, Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit wählen.«
Ein weiteren pro Rust Artikel und ich als Rust-Fanboy teile dies natürlich gerne. Ich bin der Meinung, dass u.a. moderne Web Server, API's & App's der Performance wegen auf/mit Rust aufgebaut werden sollen.
🦀

Was ist Rust?
Bei Rust müssen Entwickler nicht zwischen Geschwindigkeit, Sicherheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit wählen.

from my link log —
Composite data type performance issues in PostgreSQL.
https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/composite-type-performance-issues-in-postgresql/
saved 2020-06-17

Schedule F won’t fix government’s performance management problems, report finds - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/schedule-f-wont-fix-governments-performance-management-problems-report-finds/411107/

Netflix achète Warner, donc HBO mais le service HBO devrait rester une entité.
https://www.letemps.ch/culture/netflix-va-racheter-warner-bros-discovery-pour-pres-de-83-milliards-de-dollars?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

Intel unveils the Arc B390 integrated GPU, offering improved gaming performance, and says it will power gaming handhelds built by MSI, Acer, Microsoft, and more (Madeline Ricchiuto/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/exclusive-intel-is-making…

Exclusive: Intel Is Making Its Own Handheld Gaming PC Chips at CES 2026 - IGN

Gamification enhances user engagement and task performance in prosthetic vision testing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.25342740v2 "Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified ver…

Gamification Enhances User Engagement and Task Performance in Prosthetic Vision Testing
Purpose Visual function testing in retinal prosthesis users relies on repetitive psychophysical tasks that are cognitively demanding and fatiguing. Gamification may increase engagement, but its effects on perceptual performance in implanted users remain unclear. Methods Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified versions. Visual stimuli, trial structure, and response requirements were matched within each participant; gamified…

"Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Plastic

Success! EU Microplastic Ban Regulation Drives Innovation in Biodegradable Alternatives | Happy Eco News
EU microplastic ban regulations introduced through REACH in 2023 are transforming how industries use plastics. The comprehensive rules phase out microplastics from cosmetics, detergents, and agricultural products by 2035, pushing companies to develop biodegradable alternatives. Major corporations and startups are responding with innovative solutions that break down naturally while maintaining performance.

Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers: 7-point output was a 'boo-worthy performance' in loss to Bills https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-qb-aaron-rodgers-7-point-output-was-a-boo-worthy-performance-in-loss-to-bills

«[…] there is a choice to be made. We ought at least to ask if universities exist to sort and qualify, or to form and transform. AI forces the question.»
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-end-of-pr

The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies Jim Dickinson reflects on the end of scarcity, the rise of AI, and the challenge to a system of higher education built on pretence, performance and proxies

[2025-12-05 Fri (UTC), no new articles found for cs.PF Performance]
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Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/

Titans + MIRAS: Helping AI have long-term memory

Did Performance

Played two Loopy gigs

Just a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.

The @… Email Newsletter on Web Performance this week was great!
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-newsletter/

The NPR Network revenue programs brought in $18.3M in FY25, including $9M from NPR Network donations and podcast subscriptions via NPR , up nearly 5x YoY (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/npr-reports-exceptional-performa…

NPR reports ‘exceptional’ performance of its digital revenue-sharing programs 
Proceeds from NPR Network donations and podcast subscriptions will be distributed to stations in January.

baseball: Baseball steroid use (2008)
Two networks representing steroid use among baseball players. First, a bipartite network of players and their steroid providers (of illegal performance-enhancing substances). Second, a one-mode projection of players, which are linked if they have a common supplier.
This network has 72 nodes and 1089 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Projection

Highlights: Top plays from Jaxson Dart's 2-TD game vs. Cowboys https://www.giants.com/video/highlights-top-plays-from-jaxson-dart-s-2-td-game-vs-cowboys

So, tonight's goal is to continue with ngscopeclient performance work.
I started out by doubling the speed of the eye pattern *again* by moving index buffer calculation from CPU to GPU.
Next up is going to be getting the 100baseTX decoder to not be so slow. Right now of the 43 seconds of CPU time in the current 1-minute benchmark, 26.9 is spent sampling the MLT-3 waveform on rising edges of the recovered clock.
The thing is, we already *know* the sample values at the re…

When NOT to use #Pydantic
#python

Greg Roman on Game Planning with Herbert's Hand Injury https://www.chargers.com/video/greg-roman-press-conference-thursday-week-14-2025

AMD teases its next-generation CDNA 6-based MI500 AI chips built on a 2nm node, claiming 1,000x performance gains over predecessors, launching in 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-unveils-new-chips-ces-event-las-vegas-2026-01-06/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Parquet Courts:
🎵 Human Performance
#ParquetCourts
https://parquetcourts.bandcamp.com/album/human-performance

Call Mack Hollins a journeyman if you want, but Patriots love the course he's charted https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7026019/2026/02/06/patriots-seahawks-mack-hollins-super-bowl/

Dans un arrêt rendu le 19 novembre, le TAF vient d’en faire la démonstration en prenant position sur un recours contre la loi fédérale sur le renseignement (LRens), qui autorise de facto le SRC Š espionner massivement les Suisses, sans limite ni contrôle. Afin de respecter les droits fondamentaux ainsi bafoués, le parlement fédéral est invité, dans un délai de cinq ans, Š réviser sa copie, approuvée Š 65,5% par la population lors d’un référendum en 2017.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/autorisant-la-surveillance-de-masse-des-suisses-y-compris-des-journalistes-et-avocats-la-loi-sur-le-renseignement-devra-etre-revisee?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}

AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855463/amd-strix-halo-ai-max-plus-388-…

AMD heard you like powerful gaming portables — so here are new Strix Halo chips
AMD’s announcing two lower-end Ryzen AI Max Plus parts with full-fat graphics but fewer CPU cores, specifically aimed at gaming devices.

Agencies internally pan OPM's bid to overhaul federal performance management (GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/agencies-internally-pan-opms-bid-overhaul-federal-performance-management/411051/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p76#a260129p76

from my link log —
macmon: sudoless performance monitoring for Apple processors. CPU / GPU / RAM usage, power consumption and temperature.
https://github.com/vladkens/macmon
saved 2026-02-01

GitHub - vladkens/macmon: 🦀⚙️ Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors. CPU / GPU / RAM usage, power consumption & temperature 🌡️
🦀⚙️ Sudoless performance monitoring for Apple Silicon processors. CPU / GPU / RAM usage, power consumption & temperature 🌡️ - vladkens/macmon

Highlights: Top plays from Tyrone Tracy Jr.'s 159-yard game https://www.giants.com/video/highlights-top-plays-from-tyrone-tracy-jr-s-159-yard-game

Jesse Minter on Defensive Growth and Tuli Tuipulotu's Impact https://www.chargers.com/video/jesse-minter-press-conference-thursday-week-14-2025

No Spanish? No problem: Bad Bunny promises a party at halftime https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47843337/super-bowl-lx-bad-bunny-half-preview

#Valkey 9.0 Introduces Multi-Database Clustering, Atomic Slot Migration, and Major Performance Gains
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/valkey-9-atomic-migration/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Integrating High Performance In-Memory Data Streaming and In-Situ Visualization in Hybrid MPI Ope...
Jeremy J. Williams, et al.

Cowboys' Jerry Jones in denial over George Pickens' effort issues vs. Lions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-jerry-jones-denial-george-pickens-effort-issues-lions/2…

"To understand just how poor this performance was, consider that nothing of this magnitude has happened since 2009, when the global economy began to recover from the financial crisis. Stocks are no anomaly, US bonds and the dollar are relative losers as well."
'Americans were sold fool’s gold': Scathing analysis tears into Trump's broken promise - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-economy-2674841708/

Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …

Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength is collapsing.

The fastverse is a suite of complementary high-performance packages for statistical computing and data manipulation in R. #rstats

GitHub - fastverse/fastverse: An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R
An Extensible Suite of High-Performance and Low-Dependency Packages for Statistical Computing and Data Manipulation in R - fastverse/fastverse

Dan Campbell on Lions' Jahmyr Gibbs tying Barry Sanders for most TDs before age-24: 'There’s just not a cap on this dude' https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-campbell-on-lions-jahmyr-gibbs-tying-barry-sanders-for-most-tds-before-age-2…

Bucky's Breakdown: How Raiders' narrow loss reveals blueprint for success https://www.raiders.com/news/bucky-s-breakdown-how-raiders-narrow-loss-reveals-blueprint-for-success

James Cameron says the idea that generative AI can "make up a character" and a performance can be generated "from scratch with a text prompt" is "horrifying" (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-c…

James Cameron Says It's 'Horrifying' that AI Can 'Make Up an Actor'
James Cameron says its 'horrifying' that AI can replace actors.

Windows: Microsoft will SSD-Performance massiv verbessern
Microsoft erneuert seinen Software-Stack für Datenträger. Zuerst ist Windows Server 2025 dran. Windows 11 folgt hoffentlich.
https://www.

Rust JS Tooling 2025: Why Biome, Oxc, and Rolldown Change Everything
Explore how Rust-powered tools like Biome.js and Rolldown are delivering 10x performance gains and revolutionizing the JavaScript ecosystem in 2025.
— by @…
🦀

Rust JS Tooling 2025: Why Biome, Oxc, and Rolldown Change Everything
Explore how Rust-powered tools like Biome.js and Rolldown are delivering 10x performance gains and revolutionizing the JavaScript ecosystem in 2025.

Pending Free Agent George Pickens Being Recruited by NFC Rival, Per CeeDee Lamb https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/pending-nfl-free-agent-george-pickens-being-recruited-nfc-rival

from my link log —
It's not always icache: performance of inline functions.
https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/10/its-not-always-icache.html
saved 2025-12-03

Bucky's Breakdown: How Raiders' narrow loss reveals blueprint for success https://www.raiders.com/news/bucky-s-breakdown-how-raiders-narrow-loss-reveals-blueprint-for-success

Added performance counters for keeping track of PCIe transfers between the CPU and GPU.
I still need to track allocations, and there's a bunch I can do to merge temporary buffers etc. But one step closer to understanding memory system behavior better.

Nvidia says its GB200 Blackwell AI servers boost performance 10x compared to H200 servers for MoE models like Moonshot's Kimi K2 Thinking and DeepSeek's R1 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia

George Pickens on Cowboys' loss: 'Things just didn't go our way, to be honest' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-on-cowboys-loss-things-just-didn-t-go-our-way-to-be-honest

from my link log —
Eliminate branches by melding IR instructions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22390
saved 2026-01-01 https://dotat.at/:/J3PP5.html

Eliminate Branches by Melding IR Instructions
Branch mispredictions cause catastrophic performance penalties in modern processors, leading to performance loss. While hardware predictors and profile-guided techniques exist, data-dependent branches with irregular patterns remain challenging. Traditional if-conversion eliminates branches via software predication but faces limitations on architectures like x86. It often fails on paths containing memory instructions or incurs excessive instruction overhead by fully speculating large branch bodi…

STC/Asst. HC Darren Rizzi on S Devon Key: 'He's playing at a Pro Bowl, All-Pro type of level' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/stc-asst-hc-darren-rizzi-on-s-devon-key-he-s-playing-at-a-pro-bowl-all-pro-type…

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance?
Slow websites continue to be a problem and a lot of work is being done so developers can measure performance more effectively and fix performance issues.
🧑‍💻 https://www.debugbear.com/blog/2025-in-web-performance

2025 In Review: What’s New In Web Performance? | DebugBear
Find out how web performance changed in 2025, and what changes are coming up in the future.

George Pickens on Cowboys' loss: 'Things just didn't go our way, to be honest' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/george-pickens-on-cowboys-loss-things-just-didn-t-go-our-way-to-be-honest

Thinking about a potential performance improvement for overlapping compute and transfer operations in ngscopeclient.
Right now, if you use a ThunderScope (ignoring unified memory platforms where the issue is moot) when a new waveform shows up we write it into CPU side pinned memory.
Then we vkCopyBuffer it into local memory, barrier on that transfer, and run the ConvertNBitSamples shader to convert the raw adc codes to float32.
The problem is, this burns scratch buffer spac…

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341437/

DeepSeek taps Alibaba open-source AI technology to boost OCR performance
The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model.

Cowboys’ George Pickens Claps Back At Ex All-Pro After Criticism https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-responds-richard-sherman-criticism/?adt_ei=[email]

Who is Bad Bunny? Super Bowl halftime show performer info and famous songs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7006026/2026/02/04/who-is-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show/

Deflating Fantasy Stats from Raiders Performance in Championship vs. Giants https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-deflating-fantasy-stats-performance-championship-giants-

from my link log —
A fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml.
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz
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My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Building httpz, a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser with zero heap allocation using OxCaml's unboxed types, local allocations, and mutable local variables.

Dak Prescott’s Week 17 performance earns high marks in Cowboys’ win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-week-17-performance-earns-high-marks-dallas-cowboys-win

Starting to look at some performance improvements for various scopehal filters as I begin the push for v0.2.
The benchmark dataset is P/N legs of 100baseTX Ethernet sampled at 500 Msps with a ThunderScope.
At 50M point memory depth, each waveform is 100 MB in size (2 channels * 8 bits * 500 Msps) and covers 100ms of real time.
The filter graph currently takes just shy of a second to run, meaning we're at 10% of real time. I want to improve on this.

2026 Senior Bowl takeaways: Garrett Nussmeier delivers MVP performance in NFL draft showcase https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-senior-bowl-game-takeaways-2026-nfl-draft

Cowboys Coaching Legend Praises Brian Schottenheimer's First Year Performance https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-coaching-legend-praises-brian-schottenheimer-first-year-performance

Cowboys Coaching Legend Praises Brian Schottenheimer's First Year Performance https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-coaching-legend-praises-brian-schottenheimer-first-year-performance

Cowboys' Dak Prescott after George Pickens' performance in win over Eagles: 'He's not from this planet' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-after-george-pickens-performance-in-win-over-eagles-…

Myles Garrett Mic'd Up: Dominant Defensive Line Performance! 10 Sacks vs Raiders! https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/video/myles-garrett-mic-d-up-dominant-defensive-line-performance-10-sacks-vs-raiders

Internal memo: Meta plans to assess employees on their "AI-driven impact", which will be a "core expectation" of their performance from 2026 (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-employee-performance-rev…

Meta is about to start grading workers on their AI skills
Meta employee performance will be assessed by AI-driven impact starting in 2026, as the company prioritizes AI adoption across its workforce.

Cowboys marvel at George Pickens after stunning performance vs. Chiefs https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-marvel-george-pickens-after-stunning-performance-vs-chiefs/d117…

Darnold 'shut a lot of people up,' Macdonald says https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47731790/seahawks-laud-sam-darnold-3-td-performance-nfc-title-win

Raiders fire offensive coordinator Chip Kelly after their latest rough performance https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-fire-offensive-coordinator-chip-kelly-after-their-latest-rough-performance

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/hon…

Colts QB Philip Rivers on performance vs. 49ers: 'There’s no prize for losing' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-philip-rivers-on-performance-vs-49ers-there-s-no-prize-for-losing

Breaking down Caleb Rogers' performance for the Raiders in Week 16 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/12/23/breaking-down-caleb-rogers-performance-for-the-raiders-in-…

Cowboys survey: The DC hire, Schotty's first season and expectations https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7018328/2026/02/03/cowboys-survey-schottenheimer-dc-playoffs/

Jamaree Salyer On His Performance: "Like Riding A Bike" https://www.chargers.com/video/jamaree-salyer-media-availabiliy-raiders-week-13-2025