I find this type of science is infuriating. Monotropism as a theory of autism or adhd is equivalent to saying that “tendency to focus on a few things” is a theory of autism or adhd. You’re describing the symptoms, which explains almost nothing. A theory of autism would explain the underlying physical causes of the behavior.
Readit NewsAs usual, GPT-1 has the more beautiful and compelling answer.
nynx commented on Complex Iterators Are Slow caolan.uk/notes/2025-07-3... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
> In this specific situation i constructed that precludes inlining of iterators and allows inlining of for-each, then iterators aren’t inlined.
nynx commented on The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor blog.nelhage.com/post/itt... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
"very well may be" but oftentimes isn't. Branch history does in practice do a very good job of predicting what target you're going to take for an indirect branch.
Sure. I can easily see that often being the case for arbitrary code but not interpreter dispatch loops.
nynx commented on The ITTAGE indirect branch predictor blog.nelhage.com/post/itt... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I must be missing something here. How would this help predict interpreter dispatch? Those won’t be a function of previous branch history or pc, which may very well be independent of the next opcode. They’d be a function of state in memory or registers.
No one uses the <random> header as it's cursed and the usual cult of backwards compatibility ensures it'll stay that way.
There are several high quality alternatives that people use.
How did it get into the standard then?
Is it possible to initialize a prng in C++’s std correctly?
It would be insane to put a system as complex as hazard pointers in the C++ standard.
nynx commented on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python runpyxl.com/gpio... · Posted by u/hwpythonner
This is cool for sure. I think you’ll ultimately find that this can’t really be faster than modern OoO cores because python instructions are so complex. To execute them OoO or even at a reasonable frequency (e.g. to reduce combinatorial latency), you’ll need to emit type-specialized microcode on the fly, but you can’t do that until the types are known — which is only the case once all the inputs are known for python.
That folks with Autism and ADHD may have large portions of their symptoms occur because they focus too much on some specific things, to the detriment of others - like emotional well being/regulation - can still be falsifiable (better than most psychiatric theories for sure!) and useful clinically.
Personally, it lines up with what I’ve seen and experienced.
That there is another (perhaps chemical, or brain structure) theory too doesn’t necessarily change that!