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Dan Luu12d ago
This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient.
Dan Luu29d ago
We're going to look at three questions, which are presented before the answers to give you time to think about the questions before seeing the answers. 29.
Dan Luu28 Oct 2024
There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella.
Dan Luu11 Aug 2024
About eight years ago, I was playing a game of Codenames where the game state was such that our team would almost certainly lose if we didn't correctly guess all of our remaining words on our turn.
Dan Luu26 May 2024
From 2011-2012, the FTC investigated the possibility of pursuing antitrust action against Google.
Dan Luu16 Mar 2024
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use.
Dan Luu18 Feb 2024
If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local...
Dan Luu7 Feb 2024
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on.
Dan Luu29 Jan 2024
This is a set of notes on the Quinn Emanuel report on Cruise's handling of the 2023-10-02 accident where a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) hit a pedestrian, stopped, and then started moving again...
Dan Luu11 Dec 2022
This is a transcription of videos Elon Musk's appearance on stage with Dave Chapelle using OpenAI's Whisper model with some manual error corrections and annotations for crowd noise.
Dan Luu12 Sept 2022
I've been reading a lot of predictions from people who are looking to understand what problems humanity will face 10-50 years out (and sometimes longer) in order to work in areas that will be...
Dan Luu6 Apr 2022
Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers.
Dan Luu14 Mar 2022
There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major...
Dan Luu21 Feb 2022
[Click to collapse / expand section on sports] Here are some notes from talent scouts: - Recruit A: - ... will be a real specimen with chance to have a Dave Parker body.
Dan Luu2 Feb 2022
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without...
Dan Luu2 Feb 2022
This was co-authored with Yao Yue This is a collection of information on severe (SEV-0 or SEV-1, the most severe incident classifications) incidents at Twitter that were at least partially...
Dan Luu6 Dec 2021
This is a pseudo-transcript (actual words modified to be more readable than a 100% faithful transcription) of a short lightning talk I did at Twitter a year or two ago, on pitfalls of how we use...
Dan Luu22 Nov 2021
Here's a list of errors on this blog that I think were fairly serious. While what I think of as serious is, of course, subjective, I don't think there's any reasonable way to avoid that because...
Dan Luu15 Nov 2021
One of the most common mistakes I see people make when looking at data is incorrectly using an overly simplified model.
Dan Luu8 Nov 2021
Three major tools that companies have to influence behavior are incentives, process, and culture.
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