Articles by luu
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The mathematical past is a foreign country (plover.com)

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65537-gon (wikipedia.org)

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Skepticism about the science establishment, then and now (columbia.edu)

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The value of a dedicated data science approach in HR (gorelik.net)

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Ray tracing deformable scenes using dynamic bounding volume hierarchies [pdf] (rose-hulman.edu)

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GitHub opt-out for LLM training opts me back in after a few tenths of a second (ruby.social)

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More DevOps than I bargained for (fasterthanli.me)

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openEMS – free and open source equivalent-circuit (EC) FDTD simulation platform [pdf] (academia.edu)

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First Lessons for Circuit Designers (fasterems.github.io)

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Feed Readers Beat Doomscrolling (danq.me)

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A Beginner's Guide to Postgres Performance Monitoring (freshpaint.io)

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Color Spaces (ciechanow.ski)

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Bank Suspensions, 1892 – 1935 (1936) [pdf] (stlouisfed.org)

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The Research Behavior of Individual Investors [pdf] (nber.org)

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A Review of George Selgin's False Dawn (econjwatch.org)

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Competition and Survival in Modern Academia (columbia.edu)

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Is Space-Time Doomed? (arxiv.org)

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Delivery Songs (danq.me)

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Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers (kernel.org)

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The U.S. Trade Deficit: Myths and Realities [pdf] (brookings.edu)

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Measuring Acceleration Structures (zeux.io)

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Canada's gross domestic product per capita: Perspectives on the return to trend (statcan.gc.ca)

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Chomsky: A "Study in Total Depravity" (bactra.org)

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The Epicenter of Conspiracy Belief (wiley.com)

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How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals [pdf] (nber.org)

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A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (microsoft.com)

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Review of Never Pay the First Bill (mtlynch.io)

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The Evolution of Global Trade in 2024 (cfr.org)

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The way we're thinking about breaking changes (welltypedwitch.bearblog.dev)

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How to Write Useful Commit Messages (refactoringenglish.com)

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Road Illumination and Nighttime Pedestrian Deaths: Evidence from Moonlight [pdf] (justintyndall.com)

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Cognition and Memory After Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample (nejm.org)

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The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code (microsoft.com)

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Automattic Operating System (ma.tt)

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Is conceptual purity the defining aesthetic in academic computer science? (columbia.edu)

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Comparing the Performance of Baseball Bats (baseballanalysts.com)

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American pharmaceutical companies aren't paying tax in the U.S. (cfr.org)

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Mosfet-based Gouriet-Clapp capacitive three-point oscillator (2014) (whitequark.org)

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Secrets of Genius [pdf] (davidhestenes.net)

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On Recruiting (sidhion.com)

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The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available (discuss.systems)

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Compound File Binary Format (wikipedia.org)

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Revisiting the Inmos Transputer (rs-online.com)

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The iPhone, the IMF, and China's Balance of Payments (cfr.org)

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An election forecast that’s 50-50 is not “giving up” (columbia.edu)

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A Post Mortem on the Gino Case (theorgplumber.com)

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Other Kinds of Talks (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 3: Partial Evaluation (cfallin.org)

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Investigating an argument-dependent lookup issue and working around it (microsoft.com)

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Spark Texture Compression 1.2 (ludicon.com)

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Partial Evaluation, Whole-Program Compilation (arxiv.org)

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Wallbleed: A Memory Disclosure Vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China [pdf] (gfw.report)

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The Relationship Between Static Analysis and Type Theory (semantic-domain.blogspot.com)

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HYTRADBOI 2025 Conference Postmortem (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Not Lonely at All (2009) (ma.tt)

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Misusing police database now over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)

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I'm starting to suspect my work is incompatible with a full-time academic job (humprog.org)

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API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value (microsoft.com)

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Python as a second language empathy (2018) (ballingt.com)

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The Magically Changing Errno (dbittman.github.io)

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Inter Font (briangardner.com)

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Small is beautiful – and other thoughts about university governance (crookedtimber.org)

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$16.75M from DoorDash for Cheating Delivery Workers Out of Tips (ny.gov)

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Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)

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Bees in My Computer (transmom.love)

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Unreinforced Masonry Buildings and Earthquakes [pdf] (eeri.org)

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7 steps to junk science that can achieve worldly success (columbia.edu)

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The glibc 2.41 update has been causing problems for Linux gaming (gamingonlinux.com)

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1.0 Is the Loneliest Number (ma.tt)

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Funtrace: A C/C++ function call tracer for x86/Linux (github.com/yosefk)

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The Long-Term Impact of Steel Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing [pdf] (coxlydia.com)

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We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality (kernel.org)

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Efficient program analysis using DJ graphs (mcgill.ca)

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[flagged] Long Covid impacting more than 1M children: CDC study suggests (go.com)

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Dangerous Ideas in Water Management (onthepublicrecord.org)

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Building an "Easy" Web Application (rudyfaile.com)

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Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation (ctvnews.ca)

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Profiling in production with function call traces (yosefk.com)

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CANZUK (wikipedia.org)

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School board fired by B.C. education minister over ban on police in schools (nationalpost.com)

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Effects of Tissue Flossing and Dynamic Stretching on Hamstring Muscles Function (nih.gov)

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[flagged] Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages (sciencedirect.com)

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Blogging on Paper (2017) (conroy.org)

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Web Analytics Accidentally Collecting Passwords (freshpaint.io)

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FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security (ftc.gov)

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Why Can't These Light Bulbs Ship to California? (waveformlighting.com)

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Hands-on Assignment – Therac-25 (2007) (web.mit.edu)

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P0593R6: Implicit creation of objects for low-level object manipulation (open-std.org)

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Generation Gapped (angrylittletree.com)

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File systems with a billion files, archiving and compression (pronoiac.org)

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What's in My Bag, 2025 (ma.tt)

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Reduced thoracolumbar fascia shear strain in human chronic low back pain (nih.gov)

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Effects of Exercise on Resting Heart Rate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (nih.gov)

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Algorithmic Amplification of Politics on Twitter (pnas.org)

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Detrimental Decibels: A Study of Noise Levels in Vancouver's SkyTrain System (2022) (ubc.ca)

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When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth from 1250 to 1870 [pdf] (nber.org)

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Laid off for the first time in my career, and twice in one year (dillonshook.com)

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Lung function and dust in climbing halls: two pilot studies [pdf] (asac.nl)

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Using an intersectional approach to uncover grading bias in secondary schools (nih.gov)

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Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of Tariffs [pdf] (uzh.ch)