V · Craft & community

Dan Luu

~1980–

Independent · ex-MS · ex-Centaur · prolific essayist

Gave us

A library of widely-cited engineering essays — on processor design, latency, hiring, "computer latency: 1977-2017", "the empirical case against branch prediction performance papers".

The story

A working hardware engineer who blogs at danluu.com and quietly changed how a generation of engineers think about benchmarking, hiring, and "what does the data actually say?".

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Across the field

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