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Farzon Lotfi

I am a Compiler Developer with a Security and Graphics background.

Location Atlanta, GA Joined Joined on  Personal website https://farzon.org github website

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Georgia Tech

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The Geometry of Dragon Ball: A Deep Dive into SDFs and Raymarching
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The Geometry of Dragon Ball: A Deep Dive into SDFs and Raymarching

#shaders #caustics #refraction #reflection
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The Hardest Problem in Engineering Isn't Code (It’s Communication)
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The Hardest Problem in Engineering Isn't Code (It’s Communication)

#career #communication #growth
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The Architecture of Service: Reclaiming the Soul of Technology
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The Architecture of Service: Reclaiming the Soul of Technology

#enshittification #faith #service
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An Android Fuzzing Retrospective Part II: The "Single-VM" Theory and the Bionic Wall
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An Android Fuzzing Retrospective Part II: The "Single-VM" Theory and the Bionic Wall

#android #androidx86 #bionic #chroot
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The Exhausted Overachiever's Guide to Burnout
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The Exhausted Overachiever's Guide to Burnout

#burnout
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The Quiet Grind: Why Talent is the Least Interesting Thing About You
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The Quiet Grind: Why Talent is the Least Interesting Thing About You

#grind #grit #limitless #recovery
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The Big Tech Pivot: Why a Buyout Isn't an End, It's an Opening
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The Big Tech Pivot: Why a Buyout Isn't an End, It's an Opening

#ai #layoffs #retirement
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A Retrospective on Fuzzing Edge for Android: Looking beyond the Emulator
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A Retrospective on Fuzzing Edge for Android: Looking beyond the Emulator

#androidx86 #azure #edge #fuzzing
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MemGC: A Retrospective on a Bygone Frontline of Browser Security
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MemGC: A Retrospective on a Bygone Frontline of Browser Security

#chakra #memgc #security
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The ROI of Irrationality: What Grad School Actually Taught Me
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The ROI of Irrationality: What Grad School Actually Taught Me

#academia #career #goals #gradschool
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The Benchmarks of a Ghost Ship: On Knowing When to Walk Away
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The Benchmarks of a Ghost Ship: On Knowing When to Walk Away

#chakra #growth #ionicsecurity #memgc
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The "Certainty Tax": Why Big Tech Will Never Use Wine or Darling for CI
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The "Certainty Tax": Why Big Tech Will Never Use Wine or Darling for CI

#bigtech #darling #vms #wine
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The "Warf" Way Part II: Tackling the macOS Frontier with osx-cross and Darling
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The "Warf" Way Part II: Tackling the macOS Frontier with osx-cross and Darling

#apple #darling #docker #linux
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The "Warf" Way: Seamless Windows Testing on Linux using MinGW & Wine
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The "Warf" Way: Seamless Windows Testing on Linux using MinGW & Wine

#crosscompile #docker #linux #mingw
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The Geometry of the Essential: A Look at the Seam Carving Algorithm
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The Geometry of the Essential: A Look at the Seam Carving Algorithm

#cpp #computerphotography #computervision #opencv
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Automating C++ Code Coverage with LLVM and GitHub Actions
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Automating C++ Code Coverage with LLVM and GitHub Actions

#clang #coverage #githubactions #llvm
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Bringing HLSL Support to Clangd: The HLSL teams first GSoC project
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Bringing HLSL Support to Clangd: The HLSL teams first GSoC project

#gsoc2026 #hlsl #llvm
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Intel’s Clean-Slate Bet on the Future of Linux Gaming
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Intel’s Clean-Slate Bet on the Future of Linux Gaming

#gaming #intel #linux
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Beyond Rosetta 2: Why the "Living Binary" Is the Future of Silicon
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Beyond Rosetta 2: Why the "Living Binary" Is the Future of Silicon

#apple #ibot #intel #rosetta2
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Testing HLSL with the LLVM Offload Test Suite in WSL 2
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Testing HLSL with the LLVM Offload Test Suite in WSL 2

#gpu #hlsl #linux #llvmoffloadtests
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From Sidelined to Streamlined: Cracking the Code (Part 2)
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From Sidelined to Streamlined: Cracking the Code (Part 2)

#apple #applehealth #iphone #python
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From Sidelined to Streamlined: Decoding My Apple Watch Metrics (Part 1)
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From Sidelined to Streamlined: Decoding My Apple Watch Metrics (Part 1)

#apple #mlp #neuralnetworks #vo2max
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The Geometry of Light: Understanding the World Through Shaders
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The Geometry of Light: Understanding the World Through Shaders

#art #light #math #pixels
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To the Moon and Back: How a fundamental Algorithm is Navigating the Artemis Missions
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To the Moon and Back: How a fundamental Algorithm is Navigating the Artemis Missions

#artemis #nasa #python #kalmanfilter
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The Eigenvectors of Erid: How the Fourier Transform translated Eridian
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The Eigenvectors of Erid: How the Fourier Transform translated Eridian

#andyweir #fourier #matrix
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Seamless Image Merging: A Guide to Laplacian Pyramid Blending
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Seamless Image Merging: A Guide to Laplacian Pyramid Blending

#colab #computerphotography #computervision #gaussian
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Standardizing HLSL: Bringing the Clang Era to Ecma
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Standardizing HLSL: Bringing the Clang Era to Ecma

#clang #directx #ecma #hlsl
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Using Pin As A Coverage Diagnostic Tool for Fuzzers
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Using Pin As A Coverage Diagnostic Tool for Fuzzers

#coverage #fuzzers #pintool
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