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*This is a pseudo-transcript for a talk on branch prediction given at Two Sigma on 8/22/2017 to kick off "localhost", a talk series organized by RC. How many of you use branches in your code? Could you please raise your hand if you use if statements or pattern matching? Most of the audience raises their hands I won’t ask you to raise your hands for this next part, but my guess is that if I asked, how many of you feel like you have a good understanding of what your CPU does when it executes a bra...