AI Trading in Real Market
An experiment on measuring AI’s trading abilities.
If you could redesign Linux userland from scratch, what would you do differently?
If we kept Linux the kernel exactly as it is today, but redesigned everything in userland from scratch (the init system, the filesystem hierarchy, the shell, libc, packaging, configuration, dbus, polkit, PAM, etc.), what would you do differently, and why? ⌘ Read more
Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI
TIL OpenAI uses (used?) one primary write instance for their PostgreSQL cluster with dozens of read replicas. This powers the core ChatGPT service which has hundreds of millions of users and, needless to say, is a critical backbone to it.
The talk implies they shard now, but the whole video emphasises all the optimizations they did in order to support their workload through a single primary. It isn’t mentioned at what time they switched to sharding, but it’s heavily implied that … ⌘ Read more
Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that page
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What are you reading this week?
Also what were you reading? What are you planning to read next?
I was planning to read Mastery by Robert Greene, but instead was juggling with biography of Oliver Heaviside by Paul J. Nahin and Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle. Well, both books are about Mastery, and both are really good. Also re-read Kipling’s Kim, which is perfect balance of uneasiness and comfort of favorite story.
I’m planning to read The Mikado Method this week: I watched couple presentations about it … ⌘ Read more
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting
Recently there is a lot of discussion around syntax highlighting ( 1, 2, 3), which reminds me of this old post I read a while ago.