Sharing learnings from the transparent career stories of technical people, written by an ex-software engineer @ Instagram
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It was interesting talking to Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of TypeScript and C#, about all the technical details behind rewriting the TypeScript compiler in Go.
In 2024, AlphaProof from Google Deepmind broke through in competition math achieving a silver-medal in Interational Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
When I worked at Instagram, most of the codebase was in Python but occasionally I’d see these bindings into C++.
When I went to UCLA, I had heard professor Pearl’s name here and there from the other professors.
Professor Leroy (Creator of OCaml) is incredibly knowledgeable.
In college I briefly studied RISC vs CISC for my major but I forgot almost everything now.
Interviewed Martin Hellman recently who was one of the inventors of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm.
Ryan Williams is a professor at MIT and the winner of the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science.
Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the Python devtool startup that was acquired by OpenAI.
Skills frontier labs need, differences between software engineering and research, concrete steps engineers can take
