Writing
Essays
Substantial notes. A result that cannot name its machine, its baseline, and what it failed to survive does not belong here.
- —Correctness, Compilers and code generation
The oracle is the method
Three unrelated systems, one shared discipline: nothing counts until something else can disagree with it.
12 min
- —Measurement methodology, Correctness
The instrument does not announce its own failure
Seven instances across five projects where a measurement reported success while measuring nothing.
14 min
- —Measurement methodology, Compilers and code generation
"Not recorded" is not zero
Two projects, at opposite ends of the same pipeline, both decided to withhold a number rather than caption it.
11 min
- —Measurement methodology, Audio
What the listening caught
Six measurement errors in one project, four of which no amount of reading would have found.
10 min