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2026 1

  1. Returning to Perfect Randomness

2025 2

  1. Exponentials in 3 Instructions
  2. Perfect Random Floating-Point Numbers

2024 4

  1. A Cryptographically Secret Santa
  2. Time Programming for Lawyers and Jurors
  3. Five Nine Problems
  4. The Computer Architecture of AI (in 2024)

2023 1

  1. The Knight Capital Disaster

2022 17

  1. Abstraction is Expensive
  2. Contemplating Randomness
  3. Introduction to Micro-Optimization
  4. Rest in Peace, Optane
  5. Use One Big Server
  6. The Most Useful Statistical Test You Didn't Learn in School
  7. What Happened with FPGA Acceleration?
  8. Teach Your Kids Bridge
  9. Fixed Point Arithmetic
  10. You (Probably) Shouldn't use a Lookup Table
  11. Who Controls a DAO?
  12. Python is Like Assembly
  13. Racing the Hardware: 8-bit Division
  14. The Meaning of Speed
  15. Performance Numbers Worth Knowing
  16. Constant-time Fibonacci
  17. Less-than-linear Fibonacci

2021 1

  1. First Post