Sam Estep

@sgestep

SE PhD student @S3DatCMU | 10x pun engineer | he/him

Pittsburgh, PA

Sam Estep
@sgestep
Jun 23, 2025
how well do you understand how your computer's cache hierarchy affects your programs' performance? samestep.com/blog/random-ac…
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Sam Estep
@sgestep
Apr 3, 2025
My collaborator Troels (creator of the Futhark programming language) published a really nice blog post today about a benchmark suite we've been developing for automatic differentiation; the project makes some cool design decisions, check it out! sigkill.dk/blog/2025-04-0…
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Sam Estep
@sgestep
Oct 20, 2024
your computer uses binary to represent numbers, including random ones! but have you ever wondered how it can simulate a fair die whose number of faces is not a power of two? samestep.com/blog/random-in…
Sam Estep
@sgestep
Sep 14, 2024
generally?
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Sam Estep
@sgestep
Apr 29, 2024
want consistent math formatting across github and vscode? give this issue an upvote!
github.com
Support GitHub-style backtick math syntax in Markdown · Issue #208430 · microsoft/vscode
GitHub and VS Code both render math within dollar signs, but GitHub has some known bugs when rendering math like this, such as omitting curly braces. One workaround is to double up on backslashes, ...