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I'm Andrew, and I write spaghetti code sometimes. I usually work on projects or problems that I find interesting or challenging.
I like learning about niche low-level details and wonky optimizations.
I'm also an avid chess programmer—my chess engine Tuna plays at ~2950 elo. I play at like 900 elo.
I try thinking about concurrency a lot, both on distributed-scale and processor-scale. On the processor side, it'll be a while until I can reliably write lock-free data structures. On the distributed side, I'm currently working on a project similar to Google's distributed SQL database, Spanner.
tl;dr — I poke at low-level weirdness, concurrency shenanigans, and computer chess
Random things corner (click to expand)
- I like thinking about memory models, cache coherence, and when a "minor" branch mispredict is actually your whole problem.
- On the distributed side: time, sharding, and whatever it means to be web scale
- On the CPU side: pipelining, atomics, and misinterpreting what memory_order_acquire really entails
- I love cursed software and cursed things about programming languages
If anything sounds fun to talk about, reach out at andrew.xia@princeton.edu!