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jbrockwork
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About jbrockwork
CS PhD. Software engineer. Research in locality theory and caching. Work in compilers, storage systems, and ML execution/tooling.
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Show HN: A simple tool for modeling long-term financial decisions
When making big financial decisions, I found myself making a brand new, hyper-specific, spreadsheets and redoing a lot of math every time, since I’d forgotten how my old spreadshee…
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - Really cool account of human evolutionary history Stolen Focus (Johann Hari) - About how we've lost…
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I've been thinking a bit about vibe coding with trust-critical apps. My solution has been hand-code and test the parts where bugs would mislead users, and vibe code the rest. In my…