Stories by luu

Laptop Reviews

FediReads: Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub

Who Makes the Meaning?

GPT-3 and Scaling Trends

Twitter front end listener architecture (2015) [pdf]

English Bread Regulations

Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs (2016) [pdf]

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Startup Options (2019)

Simplifying Board Games

Shenandoah JDK15 status: not experimental anymore

Alexey Guzey’s sleep deprivation self-experiment

Good idea bad implementation crosstalk

A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)

Mission and marketing in computer science degrees

How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScript

A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf]

Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking?

COBS: A Compact Bit-Sliced Signature Index [pdf]

Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)