Andrew Healey

@healeycodes

software engineer @vercel • I write about performance, compilers, puzzles, &more on my website • @recursecenter alum

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Andrew Healey
@healeycodes
Oct 31
revisiting some of my pre-AI blog posts first up is my sokoban solver currently trying to hillclimb my way to a SOTA solver with the latest models 🧗
Andrew Healey
@healeycodes
Oct 28
really glad y'all like this one I'll go decompile some more of my fav games!
Andrew Healey
@healeycodes
Oct 24
I spent a few days decompiling my favorite childhood game, Fast Food Tycoon 2, and figuring out: ‣ world rendering ‣ sprite animations/character movement ‣ light mechanics so much to dig through and discover the dev team were on fire here: healeycodes.com/decompiling-fa…
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Andrew Healey
@healeycodes
Sep 3
the stronger the searcher, the more dangerous metadata about the existence of an answer becomes in security: "just a rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days" in chess: Carlsen would be MUCH stronger with just one bit per game: "this position is critical"
Andrew Healey
@healeycodes
Sep 2
I wrote about the performance of LLM tokenizers like most things you want to go fast, it's better to use compact contiguous state instead of complex data structures! healeycodes.com/what-makes-llm…