Guru's Tech Bytes — April 13, 2026
Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 010, for Monday, April 13th, 2026. First up, a rather elegant bit of mathematics has caught Hacker News's eye. Researchers have shown that all elementary functions — your sines, cosines, exponentials, the lot — can be derived from a single binary operator. It's the kind of paper that makes you wonder whether maths has been overthinking things for centuries. Nearly five hundred upvotes and still climbing. Second, AMD's ROCm continues its quiet march against NVIDIA's CUDA dominance. EE Times reports on the one step after another strategy to break…
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