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In early 2002, I searched for [henry massalin lock free synchronization] on Google. With the news of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat leaving Google, I was reflecting on how that search became a pivotal moment for my life and career. Continue reading
As much as I admire blogging, I just don t do it very often. When this site got hacked (again) four years ago, I upgraded it and, in trying to make it a little more secure, did something which broke it. Continue reading
[As with the previous post, this thread was originally posted on Twitter, but since I’ve stopped using that platform, I’m retroactively publishing it here.] A short thread on *ordle games and parallel computation. /1 Going from Wordle /2 … to Continue reading
[I wrote this originally as a thread on Twitter, but since I ve stopped using that platform, I m retroactively publishing it here, slightly reformatted.] A thread about Wordle, letter frequencies, and how the choice of corpus matters for textual analysis. I’ve Continue reading
My father, Jorn Haahr, died this month. He was a kind, gentle, smart man, who I learned so much from. If you ask people about him, after hearing adjectives like kind or generous, I think they d tell you about how Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I developed a fascination with Moby Dick, thanks to three creative versions of the book that couldn’t have existed without the Internet. What I knew about the novel before then was just what you learn Continue reading
No other President – no other politician – in my lifetime has meant as much to me as Barack Obama. While I think policy is important and I agreed wholeheartedly with his agenda, it is more than that. And while, Continue reading
I m still reeling from the election of Donald Trump. I m saddened, disillusioned, angry, and, most of all, scared. I don t think it will lead to direct harm for me or my family, at least immediately, but I fear for America Continue reading
My family and I recently returned from a three week trip to Peru, where a highlight of the trip had been an Amazon cruise on a ship called the Aqua Amazon. It was an amazing experience, filled with wildlife and Continue reading
Today is the California Primary. Usually, a presidential nominating contest is long over by the time California votes. And, in most ways, it is already over this year, too. But both candidates are campaigning as if California matters, so I Continue reading