Stories by luu

Toying with memoization in OCaml

Is it nuts to give money to the poor?

Contrasting native Erlang performance vs raw C vs C NIF functions

Building a web crawler

Traceroute is a hack

Startup Ideas Every Nerd Has (That Never Work)

Keeping track of your competency as a programmer

A tale of two parsers

The Reduceron: High-Level Symbolic Computing on FPGA

A dearth of investment in young workers

How Yacc was invented: handwritten parse tables

Why hardware development is hard: Verilog is weird

ForSyDe: Embedded Systems and FPGAs in Haskell

The Lava Hardware Description Language

Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1

Fortran aliasing

The obvious Python parser

The Costly Paradox of Health-Care Technology

Factorization Machines in Python

Type-checked dictionary templating library for python