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Recent Articles Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
Dan Luu · Tech · 14d ago
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
Dan Luu · Tech · 29mo ago
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Dan Luu · Tech · 30mo ago
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
Dan Luu · Tech · 30mo ago
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
Dan Luu · Tech · 31mo ago
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
Dan Luu · Tech · 47mo ago
In defense of simple architectures
Dan Luu · Tech · 52mo ago
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
Dan Luu · Tech · 54mo ago
The container throttling problem
Dan Luu · Tech · 56mo ago