Linux Crisis Tools

When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don’t want to lose precious time just to install the tools needed to diagnose it. Here is a list of “crisis tools” I recommend installing on your Linux servers by default (if they aren’t already), along with the (Ubuntu) package names that they come […]

How to Start Google

The companies at the Google end of the continuum are called startups when they’re young. The reason I know about them is that my wife Jessica and I started something called Y Combinator that is basically a startup factory. Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded over 4000 startups. So we know exactly what you need […]

Suspicious discontinuities (2020) | Hacker News

I went to school at a relatively late age and started in community college. The school/state had a policy where any independent income earners making less than 35,000/year would not pay tuition. A single dollar over that would require paying full tuition of ~$60/unit or about $750 a semester. One year I worked a little […]

Leaving LinkedIn | Hacker News

My career lesson is that being right isn’t the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Being right isn’t enough. It’s building alignment across the entire org towards the right solution. That’s the hard valuable problem that I’m paid to solve. Source: Leaving LinkedIn | Hacker News

The SwiftUI Field Guide

We built this website to visually explain how the SwiftUI layout system works Source: The SwiftUI Field Guide

有没有人解释下Sora原理? – 知乎

从披露的信息来看, OpenAI并未使用新的模型架构,类似GPT一样, 这个Sora模型基于 Diffusion和Transformer 结构, 扩大模型规模,并提供更加丰富的训练数据,像另一个GPT3一样,大力出奇迹的搞出了Sora这个大杀器,下面根据披露的信息尝试解读下 Sora背后的原理 Source: 有没有人解释下Sora原理? – 知乎

WOOD

Old vs. New Growth Trees and the Wood Products they Make Source: WOOD