Dan Luu
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- Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
- How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
- A discussion of discussions on AI bias
- What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
- How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
- Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
- Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
- Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
- Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
- How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
- Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle
- Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case
- Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
- In defense of simple architectures
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
- Misidentifying talent
- A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
- Cocktail party ideas
- The container throttling problem
- Some thoughts on writing
- Some latency measurement pitfalls
- Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
- Individuals matter
- Culture matters
- Willingness to look stupid
- What to learn
- Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
- The value of in-house expertise
- Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
- Against essential and accidental complexity
- How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
- Finding the Story
- A simple way to get more value from tracing
- A simple way to get more value from metrics
- How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
- The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
- Suspicious discontinuities
- 95%-ile isn't that good
- Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice
- Files are fraught with peril