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Echo the same, My personal conspiracy is these category of articles are election propaganda.

The paradiagm is very much alive. Look at Query_then_fetch in elasticsearch

Not everything that has hype is blockchain.

I have some legit usecases for Generative AI, it advanced my productivity across multiple learning areas by at least 2x.

Blockchain on the other hand, a pile of wannabe numbers in the air.

Hence, using OpenAI/perplexity everyday, as I am afraid they might start increasing subscriptions after the VC funds dry out.

this is just not true.

Similar story, but went back to FAANG

I dont completely agree with you. Honestly, appears like an excuse to never change the USCIS, I have come peace with it, that it never will.

I was at Cisco bought company, what a disaster it became 5 years later. Politics after politics, made me wonder why they even bought it.

Care to elaborate a bit more on the goals contrast?

Thats correct, in my previous company, we had a full internal infrastructure that provides daily or hourly perforamnce of advertisements that hits all major social media APIs.

a random aside, I truly thank you for your course. You're the teacher I wish I had in my bachelor's 8 years back. Singlehandedly revived my interest in learning databases. :).

Through your course, I reached a stage where I can help OSS projects and its features.

Thank god you havent been following the shootings of the US. Or else, the 10 year future prediction would be for the US as well?

Doing arm chair analysis on macro economics is quite hilariously ignorant. If you're so sure, why dont you short the indian markets with your life savings.

Thoughts on Appdynamics? aernt they DD's competitor.

I always overlooked the importance of stress management, as I thought working 12 hours a day in startups is fun!

As I grew older, and realized that enthusiasm is unsustainable. Something that halped me is prioritizing excercise and mindfulness for a short period of time in the day. It was such a great addition!

Its been an expensive hobby. I spent two years algo trading. My all-time peak profit was 400k. Which, I successfully and meticulously lost down to break even.

Its been an educational ride, as I learned alot of finance, stress management, algorithms in search of eldorado.

Now, I just invest in etfs and DRIPs and study other areas.

Andy Pavlov, mentioned something similar. Where, he advocated Relational database to solve most of the graph database utilities. He also made a bet, if graph databases spawn a legit usecase by 2030, that he would change his CMU profile picture.

Can confirm for Cisco India.

The surprising part of it is, it took so long to dogfood their products.

An observation, Microsoft subsidiaries are being told to use teams.

Cisco subsidiaries are being told to use webex in place of slack.

We might be in a new world of chaos

I always wondered if we could somehow get a James webb telescope revolving around all planets of our solar system in the next 1000 years. That should give us pretty awesome visuals.

Out of curiosity, How do you benchmark your algorithms.

> e.g, This is another parallel multithreaded actor model. Run Actor2.java to run it. I get around 1.1 billion requests per second with this model.

I second this about chatGPT fabrications. When I was going through Tim Roughdarden's YT courses. I almost always have to double check its answers.

This year, my resolution was dedicate myself to study distributed systems.

After spending 6 months with every day 4 hours after work. I can seriously, its been a ride and I feel like I realized am not even close to mastering (e.g, studied atleast 100 papers) it.

I woke up with a lack of exhaustion and disappointment.

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Some of my achievements include:

- Reading ~20 technical books.

- Going through ~20 technical courses.

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Observations at age of 31 studying tech material:

- My memory is good, but isnt as stellar as it used to be when I was 21 :(

- Accepting that, dedicating some take good notes.

- Being pragmatic and doing introspection at your current skills.

- Re-reading notes immediately after the course or chapter ends, and materials has helped me retain my understanding.

I am surprised no one mentioned chatGPT or GPT-3

Some of my fav. works include

Bittorrent and Bitcoin

Yup. on-call, and working through the holidays. Thanks to the frustrating miscalculations of corporate upper-management. And, since I am on h1b as well, cant really quit my job either without changing my personal life drastically.

Need to spend another 3 months of leetcoding, and system design to "prep" for another set of interviews. Not looking forward for the 12 hr coding days.

You would be extremely surprised. There are alot of musk supporters. e.g, George Hotz twitch stream.

I want innovation, and I hope this twitter drama distraction doesnt deviate from the free speech focus

On contrast, I did it for projecteuler and told it needs to be extremely efficient or math. Didnt give me an appropriate result.

I would argue that poorly specified requirements will be solved by an Auto-coder that can produce the end-result in a very short time. Allowing the PM, to see how bad their requirements were and make it more elaborate.

I spent extensive time on chatGPT. It does give an answer, but it isnt the most optimal, sometimes non-compiled version of them. Its suggestions havent reached the level of creativity. Example, if I give it a system design problem of a real-world problem. It suggests to use Apache Kafka, but what if Kafka isnt sufficient for whatever reason?

E.g, Lai–Yang algorithm will give you no hits,

Fascination observation, I asked for Project Euler #193 (a problem I solved using mobius function). chatGPT solved it using bruteforce, even after I asked for the most efficient way it could solve it with. It just used memorization, which wasnt enough to find an answer for that problem quick enough. I asked whether it could use the mobius function, it couldnt translate it to code, and I had to give it python code to make it work.

- If you ask in-depth technical questions on how task queueing works within Elasticsearch, it wont be able to give you answer.

- George Hotz in Lex friedmen interview mentions that GPT-3 has 100 most recent messages as a limit. He isnt convinced that is enough to completely build a complex tool like Solve FSD or implement me a kafka.