Stories by pncnmnp

Discover the possibilities of the /proc directory (2008)

Algorithms for the 21st Century (2006)

In the land of LLMs, can we do better mock data generation?

The Census of 1900 (1900) [pdf]

IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics

Two traps in iostat: %util and svctm (2014)

Hrtimers and Beyond: Transforming the Linux Time Subsystems (2006) [pdf]

Linux Kernel Scheduler (2015)

Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game

The Candidates in 13 Graphs

A walk through the SA-IS Suffix Array Construction Algorithm

How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)

One Billion Row Challenge in Rust

Elo ratings vs. Machine learning: Predicting chess game results (2022)

Application of Locality Sensitive Hashing to audio fingerprinting

Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color (2001)

History of Uniform Random Number Generation (2017) [pdf]

A Parabel (1973)

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

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