Stories by medbar

Engineering Management Lessons

Project Silica

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

A tutorial on the FAT filesystem

Kafka 101

Zembed-1: The Best Text-Embedding Model

Linux perf Examples

Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs 2nd edition [pdf]

Insider Amnesia

Defense Dept. and Anthropic Square Off in Dispute over A.I. Safety

Poisoning Scraperbots with Iocane

Python Threads vs. OS Threads (2023)

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

Prompting Best Practices for Instruction-Following Rerankers

How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory (2021)

How the hardware/software interface works (Linux Kernel)

On screwing up

Large tech companies don't need heroes

Improving RAG Accuracy with Chess Elo Scores (ZeroEntropy YC W25) [video]