Stories by luu

Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]

Scala's “optimization” for small maps is a good example of harmful benchmarking

Why libinput doesn't have a lot of config options

Hemispherical Combustion Chamber

The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days

A Proposed Method to Assess the Mechanical Properties of Treadmill Surfaces

So much of academia is about connections and reputation laundering

What Do Atomic:LazySet/AtomicFieldUpdater:LazySet/Unsafe:PutOrdered* Mean?

Uncertainty and Variation as Distinct Concepts

Almost 30% of YouTube’s popular coronavirus videos are misleading, study finds

Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs

Volatiles Are Miscompiled, and What to Do about It (2008) [pdf]

The Little C Function from Hell

Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories

A non-moral dilemma about cheating, but it brings up some points (2019)

A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity [pdf]

Text is Dead They Say (2005)

Power Delivery in a Modern Processor

Insignificant Choice Polynomial Time

How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?