Daniel Nikpayuk
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December 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Welcome on bluesky! @ossama-othman.bsky.social
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NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 Powers Next-Gen GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA Tile and Performance Gains
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NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 Powers Next-Gen GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA Tile and Performance Gains | NVIDIA Technical Blog
NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 introduces the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago. In this release, you’ll find new features and updates for improving…
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December 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
NVIDIA CUDA 13.1 Powers Next-Gen GPU Programming with NVIDIA CUDA Tile and Performance Gains
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#cpp
#cplusplus
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#cpp
#cplusplus
[spoilers]
I want spoilers. All the spoilers. Give me the spoilers!
I want spoilers. All the spoilers. Give me the spoilers!
December 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
[spoilers]
I want spoilers. All the spoilers. Give me the spoilers!
I want spoilers. All the spoilers. Give me the spoilers!
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Otavalo Indigenous people in Ecuador use anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language.
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Ecuador's Otavalo Indigenous people use anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language
In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language
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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Otavalo Indigenous people in Ecuador use anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language.
abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...
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Even in the face of a heavy snow warning blocking out the fun, over a hundred people gathered outside Nunavut’s Legislative Assembly for annual turning on the lights celebration.
They were rewarded with no heavy snow, but plenty of celebration.
They were rewarded with no heavy snow, but plenty of celebration.
Nunavummiut gathered for annual turn the lights on celebration | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Even in the face of a heavy snow warning blocking out the fun, over a hundred people gathered outside Nunavut’s Legislative Assembly for annual turning on the lights celebration.
They were rewarded with no heavy snow, but plenty of celebration.
They were rewarded with no heavy snow, but plenty of celebration.
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We’re still retired, but went through the bunker and found a bunch of merch - so we’re liquidating everything. Get your Walking Eagle stickers and Empty Cans of Reconciliation before they’re gone forever!
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Walking Eagle Trading Post
Walking Eagle Trading Post
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December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We’re still retired, but went through the bunker and found a bunch of merch - so we’re liquidating everything. Get your Walking Eagle stickers and Empty Cans of Reconciliation before they’re gone forever!
walking-eagle-trading-post.myshopify.com
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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.
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Today in the most depressing thing I've ever heard
You can go on a real live 'date' with an AI girlfriend at this NYC café — we wish we were kidding
It's like "Her" come to life
www.tomsguide.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Today in the most depressing thing I've ever heard
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This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
New CHW Perspective:
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.
Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...
Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”
canadahealthwatch.ca
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.
Worth your time:
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Re-upping this as daily temps are set to plunge in Edmonton. Zero frostbite amputations is an achievable goal we all can work towards. City Council and the Government of Alberta can lead here by overhauling their winter emergency response efforts #yegcc #ableg
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Edmonton doesn't have to be the frostbite capital of the world
Severe frostbite injuries are entirely preventable - together, let’s work towards a city where no one gets left out in the cold.
edmontonjournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Re-upping this as daily temps are set to plunge in Edmonton. Zero frostbite amputations is an achievable goal we all can work towards. City Council and the Government of Alberta can lead here by overhauling their winter emergency response efforts #yegcc #ableg
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Day 5 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! x86 has LEA, but ARM has the barrel shifter—instructions can shift operands cheaply. The compiler uses this to multiply without multiplying!
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#AoCO2025
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ARM's barrel shifter tricks — Matt Godbolt’s blog
The ARM architecture has a cool feature, and compilers know how to use it
xania.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Day 5 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! x86 has LEA, but ARM has the barrel shifter—instructions can shift operands cheaply. The compiler uses this to multiply without multiplying!
xania.org/202512/05-ba...
youtu.be/TZubUyr2UEY
#AoCO2025
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youtu.be/TZubUyr2UEY
#AoCO2025
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Interesting question. Back in the day I had books like CRC reference and steam tables where you could look up numbers. I could publish the results of my calculations even though I couldn't reprint the books I used for them. How is constexpr different?
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Lightning Talk: constexpr Copyright - Ben Deane - C++Now 2025
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Lightning Talk: constexpr Copyright - Ben Deane - C++Now 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Interesting question. Back in the day I had books like CRC reference and steam tables where you could look up numbers. I could publish the results of my calculations even though I couldn't reprint the books I used for them. How is constexpr different?
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Happy World Soil Day to all who celebrate! And in honour of the day, a throwback to my recent Senate speech on the need for Canada to create a national soil strategy. #WorldSoilDay #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #UnitedNations
Don't spoil the soil: the need for a national strategy on soil health
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy World Soil Day to all who celebrate! And in honour of the day, a throwback to my recent Senate speech on the need for Canada to create a national soil strategy. #WorldSoilDay #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #UnitedNations
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No other police service in the world has deployed facial recognition on body-worn cameras. Edmontonians are, in effect, test subjects for a technology Axon may wish to market elsewhere.
#yegcc #ableg
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#yegcc #ableg
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Opinion: Edmontonians shouldn't be test subjects for face-tracking bodycams — Edmonton Journal
The Edmonton Police Service’s (EPS) plan to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition on officers’ body-worn cameras should alarm Edmontonians. EPS calls this a world-first pilot with Axo...
apple.news
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
No other police service in the world has deployed facial recognition on body-worn cameras. Edmontonians are, in effect, test subjects for a technology Axon may wish to market elsewhere.
#yegcc #ableg
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#yegcc #ableg
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Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
[cctmp]
Things are going well, but they're taking longer than expected. Mostly I've been cleaning up my recent library overhaul.
I'm not fully caught up to where I was (utf8 string), but I'm getting there. Anywho, I got this functionality test working as a proof of concept [see image].
1/3
Things are going well, but they're taking longer than expected. Mostly I've been cleaning up my recent library overhaul.
I'm not fully caught up to where I was (utf8 string), but I'm getting there. Anywho, I got this functionality test working as a proof of concept [see image].
1/3
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
[cctmp]
Things are going well, but they're taking longer than expected. Mostly I've been cleaning up my recent library overhaul.
I'm not fully caught up to where I was (utf8 string), but I'm getting there. Anywho, I got this functionality test working as a proof of concept [see image].
1/3
Things are going well, but they're taking longer than expected. Mostly I've been cleaning up my recent library overhaul.
I'm not fully caught up to where I was (utf8 string), but I'm getting there. Anywho, I got this functionality test working as a proof of concept [see image].
1/3
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Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
Dear senior profs who have written tenure letters.
Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
1/
Can you help demystify the process for some junior profs up for tenure soon?
What do you look for? How do you make your evaluation?
We are told that the letters are the most important part of the file, but not what letter writers look for.
1/
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Great question!
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
1) First and foremost, we evaluate a candidate based on the departmental guidelines and expectations provided. We don't hold the candidate to arbitrary standards, or even to those of our own institution unless asked to do so. We assess the materials against the guidelines provided.
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we still don't have non-transient allocation ... so any allocation you do in compile time, you must release it during the enclosing constant evaluation, but from there you can `std::define_static_array/object/string` and get array representing `[.begin(), .end())` range representing the container
December 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
we still don't have non-transient allocation ... so any allocation you do in compile time, you must release it during the enclosing constant evaluation, but from there you can `std::define_static_array/object/string` and get array representing `[.begin(), .end())` range representing the container
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Also atomics in 26 are constexpr 🙈☺️🥰
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Also atomics in 26 are constexpr 🙈☺️🥰
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Day 4 of #AdventOfCode was short and sweet. But I wonder if there's a neater way of doing this than using a while loop?
Github: github.com/tcbrindle/ad...
Github: github.com/tcbrindle/ad...
 {
return grid.coordinates()
.filter([&](coord pos) { return grid[pos] == '@'; })
.count_if([&](coord pos) { return can_access(grid, pos); });
};
auto part2 = [](grid2d grid) {
int total_removed = 0;
while (true) {
int removed = 0;
grid.coordinates()
.filter([&](coord pos) {
return grid[pos] == '@' && can_access(grid, pos);
})
.for_each([&](coord pos) {
grid[pos] = '.';
++removed;
});
total_removed += removed;
if (removed == 0) { return total_removed; }
}
};](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqt2ib3qygcc3bakxhbcr5cq/bafkreibfvi5lnjnnwdejzboihtryqln77ss6cb5maqsfol3m5rurusdnju@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Day 4 of #AdventOfCode was short and sweet. But I wonder if there's a neater way of doing this than using a while loop?
Github: github.com/tcbrindle/ad...
Github: github.com/tcbrindle/ad...
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At the recommendation of the premier, CPE was moved from the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance to Executive Council in April, making Danielle Smith the minister responsible for overseeing the department. CPE has approximately 288 full-time staff and a budget of $38 million.
Alberta government awarded PR firm sole-source $200K contract to run education campaign to sway public opinion during teachers' battle
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www.townandcountrytoday.com/beyond-local...
Alberta government hires PR firm during teacher strike! 🤯
Read the full story and comment on TownAndCountryToday.com
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December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
At the recommendation of the premier, CPE was moved from the Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance to Executive Council in April, making Danielle Smith the minister responsible for overseeing the department. CPE has approximately 288 full-time staff and a budget of $38 million.
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Day 4 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! Multiply by constants—which ones use actual multiply? The compiler has tricks to avoid it, then saves you from your own clever hacks.
xania.org/202512/04-mu...
youtu.be/1X88od0miHs
#AoCO2025
xania.org/202512/04-mu...
youtu.be/1X88od0miHs
#AoCO2025
xania.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Day 4 of Advent of Compiler Optimisations! Multiply by constants—which ones use actual multiply? The compiler has tricks to avoid it, then saves you from your own clever hacks.
xania.org/202512/04-mu...
youtu.be/1X88od0miHs
#AoCO2025
xania.org/202512/04-mu...
youtu.be/1X88od0miHs
#AoCO2025