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Book: The Nvidia Way Author: Tae Kim Summary An old style valley hagiography.

MORE AND LESS Each day of studying the world leads you to more.

Tracking all that I read in 2026 January The Switch, Elmore Leonard Not too nasty, which was unexpected.

One of things that make me happy are deep conversations.

The little menace woke us up a couple of nights ago with a scream.

You should be in NOR mode about 90% of the time.

Book: The Delhi Sultanate: A Political and Military History Author: Peter Jackson 1.

Design a Generic Batch Processing System Designing a batch processing system involves handling large volumes of work items with a focus on reliability, fault tolerance, and efficient resource utilization.

Design Stripe Requirements Functional Requirements: Merchant can request payment Users should be able to make payment.

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Book: Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy Author: Frank McLynn I plod through most books.

When I got the message that Appa did not have much time to live, I flew down to India immediately.

Book: Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey Author: James Hollis The Swiss psychoanalyst Jung has had a remarkable afterlife.

Appa was the fittest person I knew.

Find pdf files in the current directory where the content has the search text. rg --files-with-matches --binary --iglob '*.pdf' llama By default, ripgrep will not search binary files like pdf.

Key Considerations for ML System Design Data Volume & Velocity: How much data needs to be processed and at what rate Model Training Requirements: Frequency, computational needs, and distribution strategy Inference Latency: Real-time vs. batch prediction r…

Notes from two papers on building UI Navigation Agents: Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Computers Like a Human Agent S2: A Compositional Generalist-Specialist Framework for Computer Use Agents Agent S: An Open Agentic Framework that Uses Comp…

REST API Design: Technical Interview Cheatsheet HTTP Methods: Trade-offs Table Method Purpose Pros Cons When to Use GET Retrieve data • Cacheable • Idempotent • Bookmarkable • Simple • URL length limits • Visible parameters • Limited data complexity • Res…

A few days ago I discovered an unopened packet of Red Label on the shelf.

What is a KV Cache?

You don’t need Harvard to teach you that it’s more important to listen than to talk.

Book: Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age Author: Eric Berger Only the paranoid survive.

Book: The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion Author: Nathan McGovern Na jaṭāhi na gottena, na jaccā hoti brāhmaṇo, Not because of matted hair, family or birth is one a true brahmin, yamhi saccañ-ca Dhammo ca, so sucī

Book: The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography Author: Richard H.

I finished 33 books this year, 4 of them rereads.

When you are diagnosed with Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the standard operating procedure is R-CHOP.

Book: Be Useful Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger Summary Schwarzenegger, along with Rajini and Kamal, was part of the movie star triumvirate that defined my childhood.

Book: Amp It Up Author: Frank Slootman Data Domain had a product, but no revenue.

Book: Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories Author: Amitav Ghosh Here are some things I have always wondered about (although never long enough to actually go find an answer): How did the East India Company (EIC) make its money?

Book: Avid Reader: A Life Author: Robert Gottlieb Robert Caro has published six books thus far, including his semi-memoir Working.

Book: Fire In The Hole Author: Elmore Leonard Goddamn, EL has become my favorite story teller.

You are trying to put your baby to sleep.

Book: Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 Author: John McPhee This collection is the first of a series on McPhee’s ideas for articles that never ended being published or many times, even written.

I once visited a friend, K, in Kansas City.

Book: Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine Author: Brock Yates As a boy, Enzo Ferrari dreamed of three careers: sportswriting, opera singing, and race driving.

Book: The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well Author: Michael Lopp Summary Michael Lopp's book is about leadership, but it's really about management.

Book: The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers Author: Maxwell King Find something that you like and spend a life time developing expertise in it.

There's a lot of drama around TM Krishna (TMK hereon) this past week.

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Review: The Price of Time I wanted to understand the changes that led to acceptance of interest in the West and in searching, came across this review of Edward Chancellor's The Price of Time.

Sometime ago the question of my child eating meat came up with a few friends.

What are 529 accounts?

Creating virtual environment To create a virtual enviroment with conda: conda create -n venv pip This will create a virtual env called venv and install pip in that env.

Conv2D Convolution is a process in which two signals are intertwined.

Michael Bloomberg was the mayor of New York when I first heard of him.

Book: Driven: An Autobiography Author: Larry H Miller Larry Miller is the sort of guy who is the very embodiment of Americana: little formal education, ability to work himself to death chasing the dollar, never takes no for an answer, and almost always su…

Book: Revolt of the Public Author: Martin Gurri No book predicted the present moment like this one did, when it was published in 2014.

Graphs Djikstra's algorithm Time complexity: O(E+VlogV) when a Fibonacci heap is used, or O(E + ElogV) with binary heap.

Book: Never Split The Difference Author: Chris Voss This is really a book about listening and getting along with others despite disagreeing with them masquerading as a book about high powered negotiation.