EP177: The Modern Software Stack
While there’s nothing groundbreaking about the titular infographic, the ones for concurrency vs. parallelism and JWT vs PASETO are intriguing!
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Takeaway mantra: be impatient with inputs (what you control) and patient with outputs (what you don’t control).
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Ep. 368: I Want Work-Life Balance. Am I Doomed to Mediocrity?
I agree with Cal here that whether one must make big work-life balance sacrifices depends on their definition of success (money, startup exit, impact, remarkability, American dream lifestyle, etc.). Certain goals do require one to substantially cut down on personal time.
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How Reddit Delivers Notifications to Tens of Millions of Users
It’s amazing how much work, refinements, and algos go into balancing something as simple as push notifications to keep them relevant and not pushy for users.
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How LLMs See Images, Audio, and More
A video is tokenised by first splitting it into individual image frames and audio sequences and then tokenising images and audios. Not surprising but interesting.
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Learning to learn | K/L
aka avoiding the expert beginner trap.
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WorkLife: How you can do more for others with Rutger Bregman
Conventional wisdom holds that if you are a good person, you will do good for others. The school of moral ambition says, you become a good person by doing good. A powerful reminder about how much we are in control of doing good deeds.
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What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?
Now that is a role I’d love to be in, maybe a senior/principal FDE or something.
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Learning from others’ failures is the optimal way to learn - the 3D ringside seat method.
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EP175: What is the SOLID Principle?
Lovely illustration of SOLID principles.