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Shortly after I left, Dropbox released their Rust-based client. I don't know how they compare.
The big complication in a product like this is the metadata. Things that might not seem like a big deal, like string comparisons, must be super-optimized.
I left the university and that job exactly one year before COVID-19 hit, and as far as I heard having that system in place saved a lot of butts - lectures seamlessly shifted to fully virtual with teachers recording videos either at home or in empty lecture halls, and pushing it through these video management systems.
We pushed a lot in 2015 to get approval for this whole endeavour, even though the university big-wigs pushed heavily against this, fearing that students would not come to lectures anymore. Turns out: that fear was bullshit, and in the end it helped out a lot of people.
Let's Encrypt (along with the coauthors of https://abetterinternet.net/documents/letsencryptCCS2019.pdf and many other contributors). Now the world's largest public certificate authority!
In all these I was only part of the project, but everyone’s work added up.
Co-created Dall-E Mini (now named Craiyon, and I am not involved anymore). It was among the first text to language models created independently. And it was fully open source. It also got covered by New York Times in the article covering Dall-E 2 by Cade Metz. Links: - GitHub: https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini - Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/dalle-mini - NYT article: https://ww…
It has been used by employees at nearly every airline, including dispatchers, flight attendants, captains, and I've gotten many emails saying it has allowed people to fly again, to take new jobs, and continue relationships because they know what to expect when they fly.
Site: www.turbulenceforecast.com
1: Porting YNAB from a spreadsheet to a C# Windows app back in 2006. (People tell us YNAB has changed their life) 2: Subsequently helping build the YNAB company/team. They are an amazing group of people and I’ll likely never be prouder of anything in my life. To be very clear: I can’t take credit for the original idea or spreadsheet. That would be our original founder, Jesse.
YNAB did change my life, thank you!
Impactful? Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy) Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satellites (precursor to TDRSS days). Still used to this day. Failover of IP in ATM switches (VVRP, PXE, secondary DHCP, secondary DNS, secondary LDAP, secondary NFS). While not invented here, it is still used today as this is a Common setup to this day. Printer drive…
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