Stories by luu

A company just appointed an algorithm to its board

The economics of book festivals

Patience is a Virtue: Revisiting Merge and Sort on Modern Processors [pdf]

This guy just stole pi, and Zazzle helped him do it

Open Source GPGPU

Electromechanical punchcard computer

Analyzing and visualizing spreadsheets

Software Foundations

Ruby-like string interpolation in Python

Digital disruption on the farm

Simple, Fast, Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms

Seeing Like SimCity

Tracking and Understanding TCP States

Tail Calls, Optimization, and ES6

How to make a heap profiler

Btrfs Talk at Linuxcon JP 2014

Eight (No, Nine) Problems With Big Data

C-Reduce, a C program reducer

Curry all over the C++11

Task Death In Safety Critical Systems