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C++ concurrency · Part 3

condition_variable and synchronisation patterns

How do you put a thread to sleep until a condition holds, and then wake it? The condition_variable that removes busy waiting, why lost and spurious wakeups are prevented, and the producer-consumer work queue.

cpp  concurrency  condition-variable  synchronization

cpp

2022-02-12   ·   10 min read

C++ concurrency · Part 2

Mutexes and RAII-based locking

Why does data break when several threads touch it at once? The mutex that prevents race conditions, exception-safe RAII locking (lock_guard and unique_lock), and shared_mutex, which distinguishes reads from writes.

cpp  concurrency  mutex  raii  lock

cpp

2022-02-01   ·   10 min read

Interfaces

An interface acts as the contract that governs how objects interact.

oop  interface  polymorphism

software-engineering

2022-01-31   ·   2 min read

Softmax and Cross-Entropy

Deriving the softmax Jacobian and the cross-entropy gradient, and why their composition collapses into prediction minus target.

softmax  cross-entropy  backpropagation  deep-learning

deep-learning

2022-01-20   ·   5 min read

C++ concurrency · Part 1

Creating and managing threads

What does it mean to run several flows of execution? Creating threads with std::thread, managing their lifetime with join/detach, and C++20 jthread with its automatic join and cooperative cancellation.

cpp  concurrency  thread  jthread

cpp

2022-01-10   ·   10 min read