Introduction A few months ago, searching for ideas on how to make some code faster, I found myself reading a bunch of computer science papers. I don't pretend to be good at this - but I don't mind some confusion or being overwhelmed, and I'm okay to admit my ignorance. 1. I ran into this 15 year old paper 2 that introduced several concepts entirely new to me. I struggled to understand them. So what do you do then? You look for more papers to help explain things. This is a risky endeavor, because...