I'm unsure about the expectations for comments, are we expected to contribute by a certain time after the lectures?
Also, if anyone is interested in an example of ILP, figure out why xxHash(https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash) is so fast. I only appreciated the speedup after learning that in cryptography additions/xor's are used to cause carries/randomness, so the operations used don't cause the speedup. Another interesting fact is that xxHash is limited by the speed of ram not the processor.
tcm
Good question (about timeliness). While we haven't set a strict deadline for this, the idea is to post a comment before we get too far beyond the given lecture, since other people are probably less likely to see comments as we get much further ahead in the material. As a general rule of thumb, I think it would be good to post a comment on a lecture within a week of the given lecture. (Sooner than that would be even better, of course.)
Nesuna
To also piggy back off of this, I was wondering about the comment requirement. I remember you saying about one per lecture, but is that something that gets averaged throughout the week or is the requirement strictly one per lecture?
tcm
It is not strictly one for each and every lecture, although we don't want it to get overly bursty. It is okay to think of it as being averaged over a week's worth of lectures.
I'm unsure about the expectations for comments, are we expected to contribute by a certain time after the lectures?
Also, if anyone is interested in an example of ILP, figure out why xxHash(https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash) is so fast. I only appreciated the speedup after learning that in cryptography additions/xor's are used to cause carries/randomness, so the operations used don't cause the speedup. Another interesting fact is that xxHash is limited by the speed of ram not the processor.
Good question (about timeliness). While we haven't set a strict deadline for this, the idea is to post a comment before we get too far beyond the given lecture, since other people are probably less likely to see comments as we get much further ahead in the material. As a general rule of thumb, I think it would be good to post a comment on a lecture within a week of the given lecture. (Sooner than that would be even better, of course.)
To also piggy back off of this, I was wondering about the comment requirement. I remember you saying about one per lecture, but is that something that gets averaged throughout the week or is the requirement strictly one per lecture?
It is not strictly one for each and every lecture, although we don't want it to get overly bursty. It is okay to think of it as being averaged over a week's worth of lectures.