Round to Odd
When writing numerical programs, rounding is a subtle but important aspect that can significantly affect the accuracy and stability of computations. In...
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Composable, Correctly-Rounded Number Libraries
This blog post was split into two parts. This blog post covers rounding in detail and discusses some theory; this blog post focuses on design principles ...
Rearchitecting Herbie’s improvement loop
Herbie’s improvement loop has five basic phases:
A One-Year Retrospective on Minim
September 20th marked the one year anniversary of Minim’s creation. It initially started as an pandemic-fueled side project based on an online guide of mak...
Garbage Collection in Minim
Currently, one of the key issues in Minim is the lack of garbage collection. To handle precise memory management, I implemented a weird owner-and-reference ...
Developing Minim
Recently, I released version 0.2.0 of Minim, my hobby-language that I’ve been developing since last fall. It’s inspired by my time working with Racket (now m...
Publishing the “generic-flonum” package
As a side effect of recent work, I created an alternate MPFR interface in Racket. I posted in the previous blog, that I was planning on extracting that code ...
First Entry
Note: This is my first entry for my blog, a compendium of my thoughts, articles, references, etc. Is blog even the correct word? I’m still trying to figure o...