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by akhayam 3y ago
The e2e argument was key to internet design. But we regularly (and actively) violated it in design of largescale systems at AWS infrastructure--most of the times with great results. The key difference here is that the cloud owns many (but n
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by akhayam 3y ago
Can we commit other people's blogs to this? E.g. I am surprised to not see Julie Zhou's blog in this list--which, I believe, is one of the most influential blogs in the tech product space: https://www.juliezhuo.com&#x2F
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by akhayam 3y ago
From someone who has dabbled in information theory (the real one), I am just as confused as you. What I have observed in the past decade is that calling things “information theory of something” makes it somehow more palatable for a broader
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by akhayam 3y ago
I wonder how this synchrony can be used for efficient coding. I love and hate pair programming for its efficacy and inefficiency respectively. Is there a way to make it more efficient, as it’s already infinitely more enjoyable? Would love t
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Lessons from “On the Self-Similar Nature of Ethernet Traffic” (2019) [pdf](ccronline.sigcomm.org)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Retrospective from the OG authors of the seminal 1993 old internet traffic modeling paper.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Every picture in this article is worth a million words. Well done! I also used a lot of pictures when teaching Discrete Cosine Transform in a grad course back in the day: http://rmarsh.cs.und.edu/CLASS/CS446/Discre
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Sajid Sadpara Sets Record by Scaling Everest Without Oxygen [video](youtube.com)
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by akhayam 3y ago
I feel it's all rooted in bad leadership. Leaders who don't understand who's actually doing the work hire more folks like them and then there is a chain reaction. Unfortunate, but true, part of most big companies.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Let me provide an adjacent perspective: I started my career as an academic and excellent writing was survival in that jungle. While that's a profession where research and writing can actually "pay your bills" (metaphorically)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Nicely written. Before taxonomies and remediation, I would watch Tim Urban's absolutely legendary TedX talk that humanizes procrastination--despite all its ills--and how to empathize with procrastinators (inside and around you): https
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by akhayam 3y ago
Indeed, Hamming and Golay codes are an absolute thing of beauty. For folks that wanna read more about Hamming Bound, Kevin Boone does a good job in starting from the basics and explaining the intuition behind the proof: https://k
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by akhayam 3y ago
What is often overlooked is the philanthropic and entrepreneurial impact that Andrew Viterbi had in this world. In 2004, he donated $52 million to University of Southern California (USC) School of Engineering: https://en.wikipedi
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by akhayam 3y ago
Seems like a lot of folks have tried starting from the theory and getting stuck in their tracks. Would anyone be interested in building a low-code implementation of Viterbi algorithm? I am happy to collaborate on it as long as we commit to
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by akhayam 3y ago
Which I must sadly agree with :(
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by akhayam 3y ago
With internet censorship being used blatantly in Pakistan (yet again), I was reminded of a research paper that I wrote on this topic with some peers and students in 2014--a time when bad technology was impacting day-to-day lives of 191M+ in
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A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Great to see someone writing this as a structured thought. Thank you! I would add one thing that someone recently said to me and I felt it was the core reason of why I write blog-style docs (for my team or the general internet populace): &q
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by akhayam 3y ago
For folks that are interested in learning more about bitwise operations, here is another article (slightly more nuanced) about XORs that you may enjoy reading: All About XOR: https://accu.org/journals/overload/20&#
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by akhayam 3y ago
I have also been using BBEdit for a decade now, but didn't know that it had such a history behind it. Long live BBEdit + Vim...
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The Viterbi Algorithm at 50 (2017)(viterbischool.usc.edu)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Just going through this goldmine and honored to be reading implementations of IP in Mesa using Proc[]'s.
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by akhayam 3y ago
My favorite book on this topic is The Dream Machine which tells how Licklider believed in the "Intergalactic Network" and then worked through all the bureaucracy to make it a reality. * https://www.amazon.com/Dream
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by akhayam 3y ago
Org will be orgs… and I find it hard to disagree with you :( The only counterexample to Conway that I have seen working is “away teams”: https://pedrodelgallego.github.io/blog/amazon/operating-mode...
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by akhayam 3y ago
My world started with LaTeX so I'll support an editor with the audacious goal of making editing "fun". Wasn't aware of mmm, but it looks and "feels" great. PS: I am still in love with LaTeX--one of the only str
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by akhayam 3y ago
Werner's advice in my own words: 1. Don't pick an architecture because it's all the rage right now. 2. Don't pick an architecture that mimics your org's structure. Aka don't fall prey to Conway's law: htt
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by akhayam 3y ago
100% agree. Jack Kilby's Masters thesis that realized an actual integrated circuit was another one that makes my list of GOAT.
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by akhayam 3y ago
I would read "Lifespan" by David Sinclair, who used Shannon's information theory to model epigenetic changes that cause us to age. Fascinating read and goes to show how far reaching impacts a foundational mathematical theory
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by akhayam 3y ago
The real moats in this field will come from the hardware industry. It's way too expensive to train these models on general purpose compute. Vertically designed silicon that brings down the unit economics of training and inference workl
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by akhayam 3y ago
Since we are on the topic, does anyone know what Shannon was up to after disrupting 3 fields? ... He got into ball juggling and built the mathematical theory that led to creation of an automated juggling machine: https://cs.stanf

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