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by akhayam 3y ago
Sounds interesting, but what's the backend for Code Preview? and how is it different from other companies in this space like Retool, Zeet, etc.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Wow! I had no idea that the idea of an Atom goes back 2000+ years. Thanks for sharing this terrific post. Goes to show how these tiny, simple things come together with some structure to create everything in our universe.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Andy Pavlo is incredible. I studied EE and have learned about databases through his lectures.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Here is the Tech Crunch article: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/twitter-inc-is-now-x-corp/ . SSDD as far as I can tell.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Newbie error. Didn't realize that was the norm of the community. Tagging all older posts with the year now.
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“Selective Attention” Demonstrated Through the Color Changing Card Trick (2013)(youtube.com)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Let's admit it. We have lost empathy for the old because we don't think they have enough "value" to add to society. I am inspired by the story of Patricia Moore who, at 26, dressed up to live the life of an 80 yr old to
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Revitalizing the Public Internet By Making it Extensible (2021) [pdf](cs.princeton.edu)
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by akhayam 3y ago
Erasure codes are a work of art for storage use cases, but not as broadly relevant as, say Turbo codes or space-time codes (like Alamouti codes).
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by akhayam 3y ago
+1. I am really upset about the pricing for the value. Great that we have alternatives now
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by akhayam 3y ago
Yes, wanted to share an interesting story of how great ideas can come from folks who are not the most popular names in a field. I feel the same will happen with AI now.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Just adding some extra color: Turbo codes did get instant traction in the industry once the academics actually "believed" them to be true. So the friction came from the academics and not the industry. Today, every communication sy
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Closing in on the “perfect code” (2004)(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by akhayam 3y ago
In 1993, two unknown French engineers claimed to have found a coding scheme to provide virtually error-free communications at data rates and transmitting-power efficiencies well beyond what most experts thought possible. Nobody believed the
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by akhayam 3y ago
Effective typescript is a good start which is framework agnostic and focuses on the fundamentals: https://effectivetypescript.com/
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by akhayam 3y ago
Start here :) After that, LinkedIn is always a good starting point. But it’s important to make sure you are writing an interesting role descriptions… no GPT plz.
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by akhayam 3y ago
This has been a long time coming… eBPF is the de facto tracing, networking and security stack on basically every platform that mankind cares about right now. Great to see the standardization kicking off now. eBPF Foundation is the right bod
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by akhayam 3y ago
Few technologies in the past decade have had an impact as resounding as Envoy. I was initially skeptical of a proxy written in C++, as it was so counter culture for the time. Kudos to Matt Klein for proving us wrong!
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by akhayam 3y ago
+1. Reputations are deceptive. One must dig below the surface
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by akhayam 3y ago
Well, that's something that I want to understand better. I know ChatGPT--inspired by InstructGPT--used RLHF to improve their models. Since OpenAI's model is not available, how does LangChain make sure it gets similar performance a
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by akhayam 3y ago
Beyond the obvious 3 (toxic people, false promises, value system misalignment), here are 3 signals that made me leave quickly (stack ranked): #1 Your boss doesn't inspire you _every day_: I don't mean this metaphorically. In the f
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by akhayam 3y ago
“You are not a tree. if you don’t like where you are, move.” Happened multiple times to me and I recommend pulling the plug early. My resume has 3 jobs that lasted less than a year and 4 that have 5+ years each. People sometimes ask why tha
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by akhayam 3y ago
eBPF was just launched on Windows: https://microsoft.github.io/ebpf-for-windows/ . Why not use that as the tracing stack as that’s the de facto in the Linux world already?
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by akhayam 3y ago
+inf. Now I can’t stop thinking of Zakir Tikka.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Research on Agent architectures is evolving real fast. I read Park et al.'s paper on Generative Agents a couple of weeks back which seems to have the potential to put LangChain's Memory on steroids: https://arxiv.org&#x
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by akhayam 3y ago
What's fascinating for me is how directly LangChain's Input > Thought > Action > Observation maps to the Observe > Orient > Decide > Act (OODA) Loop that is used in many other industries: https://en.wi
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by akhayam 3y ago
+inf to that. Hate flying too, but if you gotta do it and you gotta do economy then no better machine on the planet.
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by akhayam 3y ago
Anyone that’s been to Lahore will attest to how crazy the Lahori nation is about food. You simply can’t wrong with food in that city. Glad Philly Cheesesteak launched a joint there!
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by akhayam 3y ago
You are so lucky! I just searched an aviation site and seems like the SFO<>DXB is back on A380 as well…. Yaaay! From that page: “ In 2023, the Emirates A380 is at this point scheduled to operate flights to 44 destinations in almost 30
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by akhayam 3y ago
This language reminds me of all the run-to-completion frameworks in the embedded RTOS world. Not sure how practical it is to find devices that have no concept of a file/filesystem in today’s day and age.

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