Stories by luu

Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984)

Engineering Management

Single Address Space Operating System

Synthesis: An Efficient Implementation of Fundamental Operating System Services

"Reply-To" Considered Harmful

Correlation: neither everything nor nothing

Building a Turing Machine Simulator

Approximate Heavy Hitters – The SpaceSaving Algorithm

Why Farmers Are Connecting Their Cows to the Internet

Big data needs a helping hand in Washington

Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)

Randomization tests in Julia

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