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Really cool. I'm wondering: what background did you need to be able to think of the question that resulted in this project? I know you said you're involved in some retrogaming and …

One thing that I really appreciate about the blockchain and AI communities is that there is a lot of open source activity in these spaces. It seems feasible to find an interesting …

I think one of the biggest challenges for a team lead is understanding the team's priorities, followed by identifying and acting on the leading indicators of success towards those …

Hm, I’m not sure what you saw in the post before my edits, but I think this answers “did AI motivate / help discover the breakthroughs we saw 20 years ago?” which I definitely agre…

Good suggestion! I’ve seen federated learning come up before but have not explored it much. This seems like a good direction for sure.

In the very late 1990s to the early 2010s, it seemed like the volume of distributed systems research was enormous. If I search for papers during that period, I see everything from …

Most of my co-workers aggressively max out their 401k's and contribute to an after-tax scheme once they hit IRS limits. They stress to me that it is important to keep as much money…

This is the sort of trivialization attitude that I’ve come to associate with people who only care about the “big picture”. It is really irksome if you work on the lower-level stuff…

I would be curious to understand the "How to Prompt" section more. As someone who does not interact with LLMs regularly I have no idea why this looks like a templating language. Wo…

I want to read some technical papers on distributed systems to understand what work has been in focus over the past few years and to learn a bit more about those topics. One thing …

Back when I was doing research in VR about a decade ago, everyone followed the golden rule: do not cause any sudden acceleration! This was because studies had regularly shown that …

What is the impact of this, are images broken?

This was the main reason I moved my money out of a bank account early during the rate hikes. I was waiting around for a better rate, but even when T-bills were being offered at >2%…

This is probably a dumb question, so bear with me. In the past few years I've noticed some folks at my company migrate to some pretty interesting mid-stage startups, all of which w…

Past losses aside, the press release says that there are about $180B in deposits with the bank holding about $210B in assets. Assuming the FDIC liquidates and restructures the bank…

For those who haven’t used Datadog, what do you mean by auto-muting logic? What does it do exactly?

> We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again I don't know if …

I believe this is correct. Anecdotally, at FB, there was quite a push to get coroutine-supporting-features into the standard because we had a C++ coroutine library built through no…

At least in the case of Meta / Facebook, I don't think there is any pressure on the CEO. Zuckerberg owns controlling interest over the company to the point where the board of direc…

I have no idea what will happen, but it sort of sounded like (from the limited reporting that's been done) they'll focus a bit more on managers / non-ICs this time -- if it happens…

I work on an infrastructure team at Meta. I love large distributed systems work and like the sort of work I do, but I’m getting a bit ground down by the machine. I had a thought ab…

I think what I'm looking for is someone who understands the technical side of a team and org enough (perhaps through support of a tech lead) to set expectations and goals for the i…