A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly...
Read moreIt’s common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android...
Read moreAbout once a month, an app that I regularly use will change its UI in a way that breaks muscle memory, basically tricking the user into...
Read moreI’ve never worked in the field of computer vision and has no idea how the magic could work when an autonomous car is configured to tell...
Read moreWe’re going to reproduce some results from papers on filesystem robustness that were written up roughly a decade ago: Prabhakaran et al. SOSP 05 paper, which...
Read moreIf you look at “gaming” keyboards, a lot of them sell for $100 or more on the promise that they’re fast. Ad copy that you’ll see...
Read moreHuman vocabulary comes in free text. In order to make a machine learning model understand and process the natural language, we need to transform the free-text...
Read moreProfessor Naftali Tishby passed away in 2021. Hope the post can introduce his cool idea of information bottleneck to more people. Recently I watched the talk...
Read moreThis is a pseudo-transcript for a talk on branch prediction given at Two Sigma on 8/22/2017 to kick off “localhost”, a talk series organized by RC....
Read more[Updated on 2018-09-30: thanks to Yoonju, we have this post translated in Korean!] [Updated on 2019-04-18: this post is also available on arXiv.] Generative adversarial network...
Read moreI recently had a problem where part of the solution was to do a series of pointer accesses that would walk around a chunk of memory...
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