Stories by luu

Relationship Between Hierarchy and Wealth

Streetcars that are too wide, long, and heavy, 136 $3.5M per (1998)

What Statistics Can't Tell Us in the Fight Over Affirmative Action at Harvard

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made [pdf]

San Francisco must end its self-inflicted housing woes

Type Erasure in Scala

Thunderbird “loses” emails when downloading from mail server to a local folder

What Price the Bay

Online Tracking: A 1M-site Measurement and Analysis (2016) [pdf]

Scientific computing best practices

Reflecting on time at the Recurse Center

The unknown hackers (2000)

Stance and distance in popular writing about math

Winthrop playing non-D1 opponents is symptom of bigger problem in college hoops

More glaciers in East Antarctica are waking up

Bauhaus

Acceptance rates (2014)

Building a Ruby profiler [video]

$10K Fellowships for women working on open source projects, research, and art

Recurse Center: The return statement (2015)