Stories by luu

Iteration Is Hard (1998)

Tabu search

Problems with randomized controlled trials (or any bounded statistical analysis)

Unsound and Incomplete

Why Are There So Many People in Jail in Scranton, PA?

Open-source FPGA toolchain project

Island, bricolage and the re-making of finance [pdf]

TINY: VNC for DOS

Foldl vs. foldl'

Atomist

Foxtrot merges in Git

Estimating the Birthday Paradox Cutoff

Why does the JVM have a maximum inline depth?

A Post-Mortem on the Recent Developer Story Information Leak

Bitpacking and Compression of Sparse Datasets

MuGo: A minimalist Go engine modeled after AlphaGo

2016 Was Not a Particularly Volatile Year

Linux kernel design patterns

What's the first reference to bloom filters where the number of hash fns vary?

Fogus: the best things and stuff of 2016