Stories by nkurz

Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures

Tests Reveal Mislabeling of Fish

A Fast Mutual Exclusion Algorithm (Lamport 1987)

Why not mmap?

Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer

Ensembling: the 'Committee of Experts' mega model

Fabrice Bellard [pdf]

A visual approach to calculus problems (2000)

Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine

Why did they ruin this processor?

Singletons are Pathological Liars (2008)

Difference between CUDA and OpenCL 2010

Abstraction versus Mock Objects

It never made sense to learn Java

Emacs and ReSharper keybindings in Visual Studio

The Bitcoin Cryptocurrency and the herculean computational power of GPUs

Want a Flat Tax? I Got a Flat Tax for You

The Language Squint Test

Concurrency, Parallelism and D

Persistence of Memory

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