Ep. 772: Wake Up and Think with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The Importance of Parallelism in Computer Time Management
CNN's John Sutter talks about how computers can multitask at a much faster time scale than humans. The biggest pitfall for a system that's managing a multitude of threads is what's called thrashing, he says. And so you can have a situation in which the computer is spending literally 100% of its time doing these sort of bookkeeping meta tasks - and it's not doing any real work.
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