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danluu.com is a tech site on danluu.com, in English, funded by its readers: 129 people pay through Patreon, as the platform publishes it.

Dan Luu's personal blog of essays on software engineering, hiring, AI evaluation, and programming practice.

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122 pages indexed; the pages that lead the site by its internal links:

https://danluu.com/
https://danluu.com/
Tile game AI (similar to Azul)
https://danluu.com/game/tile/
Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires
https://danluu.com/exercise-7/
Suspicious discontinuities
https://danluu.com/discontinuities/
How does programming language affect token efficiency and correctness?
https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/
The benchmarkpocalypse
https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
https://danluu.com/why-benchmark/
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
https://danluu.com/car-safety/
Given that we spend little effort on testing, how should we test software?
https://danluu.com/testing/
A simple way to get more value from metrics
https://danluu.com/metrics-analytics/
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality review by su3su2u1
https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/

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