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Can your static type system handle linear algebra?

No one really knows if HFT is good or bad

Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names

Why the immune system is so damn complicated

Testing randomness

Low-level is easy

Hire an Ex-Slacker Today

How profilers lie: the cases of gprof and KCachegrind

A sprightly history of the glum designs behind the world of modern work

Michael Lewis’s HFT Book: More of a Dark Market Than a Lit One

The Beauty of Roots

Interactive Product Manuals

What Michael Lewis Gets Wrong About High-Frequency Trading

It's the Latency, Stupid

Are volatile reads really free?

AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture

Stopping a Shortcut to In-State Tuition

The next revolution after Git

How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

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