Stories by nkurz

The World of Linux System Calls

How Google Cracked House Number Identification in Street View

A Tiny Metaprogramming Library

The Threat of Treble Damages versus the Benefit of Insight

An Investigation of the Therac-25 Accidents (1993) [pdf]

ARrgh: a newcomer's angry guide to R (2013)

Memory profiling in R using lineprof

Crowdfunding and the Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race to the Bottom?

Rectal rehydration and standing on broken limbs: CIA torture report's grisliest

Comcast sued by customers for turning routers into public hotspots

Tesla vs. Xeon Phi vs. Radeon – A Compiler Writer’s Perspective (2013) [pdf]

When is equality transitive? and other floating point curiosities

A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) [pdf]

X86 Internals for Fun and Profit

Unexplained memory errors in your DDR3 design? Maybe it’s “Row Hammer.”

Will There Be a DDR5?

Inter-thread communications in Java at the speed of light (2013)

C Language Constructors and Destructors with GCC (2011)

Chief justice questions whether rights may be curtailed in Internet speech case

What the Courts Did to Curb Patent Trolling for Now

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