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		convolvatron on Jan 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solu... you can mention Massalin by name. she's pretty brilliant, idk where she is now

WalterBright on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

I don't recall who wrote the paper, thanks for the tip, enabling me to find the paper:

H. Massalin, “Superoptimizer - A Look at the Smallest Program,” ACM SIGARCH Comput. Archit. News, pp. 122–126, 1987.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs343/resources/superoptimize...

The H is for "Henry".

mgliwka on Jan 16, 2023 | [–]

It’s Alexia Massalin now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexia_Massalin

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