While I won’t like to read too much into the effects of recent protests in India here are some observations, thoughts, quotes, etc. While the trigger for this post was the recent protests, this has nothing to do with politics. I will try to be more generic than writing just about recent protests. The goal is to understand and make sense of things rather than sensational political statements,…
After writing a short take about system dynamics I recently picked up the book Thinking In Systems again. And this time I finished it.
In the short-takes posts I write about some concepts, phrases, models, ideas, whatever related to my work and life. As these are likely to be known to many, the idea is to just document these together, rather than go into details of these. Will keep updating.
In the Thoughts-In-Progress posts, I write about ideas which I may not be fully convinced of yet. Or about which I have not made up my mind yet- this way or that. Like Work In Progress, these thoughts are not done yet.
Finished reading Introduction to Functional Programming by Richard Bird and Philip Wadler. The first edition. Published in 1988. This book is so old it’s not listed even on the authors’ university homepages and wikipedia entries. There is a 1998 version using Haskell that is listed. But I hadn’t read a programming book in a while, someone on twitter had mentioned this book, PDF was available, so I…
Recently Lex Fridman posted a podcast episode of his discussion with DHH (Duration 6hr+). I have previously written about another such Fridman interview- that with John Carmack. DHH is a legendary programmer. Known for his work on Ruby On Rails (RoR). You have read about him here more than once. In fact, the oldest post on this blog was about his sensible but controversial opinion. (Well, I had…
In the short-takes posts I write about some concepts, phrases, models, ideas, whatever related to my work and life. As these are likely to be known to many, the idea is to just document these together, rather than go into details of these. Will keep updating.
Here is my understanding about Google File System from reading the GFS paper. Some other references: MIT’s lecture video. I will use mostly text here- some of it is directly copied from the paper. So if you need a video walkthrough of the paper with diagrams, etc, here is a good youtube video.
I recently read the book Lights Out subtitled Pride, Delusion, And The Fall Of General Electric. It talks about troubles at GE. It was published in 2021 and GE stock has improved a lot since then. BillG recommended the book in past.
I recently read the paper Scaling Memcache At Facebook. Some of my notes below: