💖 ➞ λ: CS PhD, into compiler design, programming languages, music, simulation, ML/AI, robotics. Follow me code code reviews, stock picks and dating advice.
Montreal, Canada
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I'm looking for my next role, in Montreal or remote! My background spans compilers, systems, and AI research.
I'd welcome introductions, leads, or a repost to help spread the word ❤️
More details about my experience and what I'm looking for: pointersgonewild.com/2026-09…
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Platform-dependent int types was one of C's design mistakes in terms of portability. Today we're also at a point where CPU vendors have largely converged on 64-bit machines that can do 16, 32 and 64-bit arithmetic fast. You can still use ifdefs to swap int types when you need.
In C programming, do not use:
int, char, unsigned int, unsigned char...
Please use:
uint8_t, int8_t, int32_t, int64_t...
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Planar bipedal walker + genetic algorithm controller in Plush take one 🎬.
Takes about 20-30 minutes to train on my laptop CPU. This is harder than I thought 😆 Getting the walker to balance and move forward is trivial, but it optimizes for funny walks.
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I'm going to try to build a bipedal walking robot simulator and a neural network controller for it, all in Plush for fun. It's all going to simulate and train on my local CPU, interpreted... It's not how much compute you have, it's how you use it 😉
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Maxime Chevalier retweeted
This is NOT Jev.
Open source. Runs on your laptop. Decides in ~27 ms, about 200× faster than waiting on a hosted LLM.
Here it is playing Tetris by itself 👇
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A torture test for my interpreted software renderer: testing how well it copes with a 26-floor building that you can climb into with alpha blended surfaces all around. Featuring BSP trees and the awesomeness of S-buffers.
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Maxime Chevalier retweeted
100% the best writing on IK I've seen. 👀
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Show and tell: fast rasterization with alpha blending at 720p in Plush, an interpreted language! :)
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Over the last week I've been doing some of the "boring" work to bring Plush closer to a "real" programming language. Stack traces now report accurate source positions. I've also fixed multiple parser bugs, corner cases and general error reporting :)
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I've been gradually working my way to giving plush a proper stdlib and fixing obvious gaps in the language, with the hope of moving towards stabilization of the language at 1.0.
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Is anybody using the Grok Bot $30/month plan? I'm wondering how much usage you can get out of that plan compared to something like Opus 5. Also wondering what are your general impressions and whether Grok Bot can generate images?
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Demo day: Tremor, a mini Quake-like 3D game engine, and neural network word detection in Plush! :)
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The GitHub repo is here: github.com/maximecb/plush
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Reading my own blog. I sort of predicted the rise of LLMs, AI agents and SaaS in 2015. Cool cool cool.
pointersgonewild.com/2015/05…
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I transformed the Plush interpreter from a stack-based design to a register-based architecture, and the performance boost was more than I expected!
pointersgonewild.com/2026-09…
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At the request of a friend I put together Windows release binaries and a one-line Windows install script for Plush. If anybody has a Windows VM with a UI or feels trusting enough, can you report if this works, or if not, how it fails?
irm maximecb.github.io/plush/ins… | iex
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Update: it looks like the Windows install script works 🥳
github.com/maximecb/plush/is…
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