# flp — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover flp. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Long Summer of Harry Styles and Jeff Azoff: Second Season Weight Loss](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/harry-styles-together-together-tour-msg-resale-crisis) _2026-06-22 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ The ghost of PR stunts past, Wembley under surveillance, and why troubles never come alone. ## [10 Months of FLP: The Recap You’ve All Been Waiting For](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/corporate-pop-recap-fine-line-project-summer-break) _2026-05-31 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ FLP signs off for the summer break, packing the upcoming articles into the cooler. ## [Harry the Bodysnatcher and the Death of the Barricade](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/harry-styles-together-tour-stage-architecture-alienation) _2026-05-25 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ From the classist architecture of the Together Together Tour to the Ivor Novello Awards: a chronicle of a pop star who sold his soul and has no choice but to go on with the show. ## [Stripped: Naked at the Finish Line](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/stripped-naked-at-the-finish-line) _2026-05-20 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ A journey through the American "Customs": where international artists arrive with class consciousness and depart as pornified assets for the global market. ## [Sell No More: Why Harry Styles’ New Video Is the End of the Line](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/harry-styles-dance-no-more-tour-failure-azoff-analysis) _2026-05-11 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ Between cheap queerbaiting, Azoff’s boomer-tier strategies, and a fandom abandoning ship without looking back. ## [No You Girls: Harry Styles, Benson Boone, and All the Others. Why the Music Industry Killed the Rock Star to Save the Bottom Line](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/music-industry-male-pop-artist-styles-boone-antitrust-audit) _2026-05-06 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ From the trauma of the P2P wars to the "Lonely Girl" complex: an audit of how Major Labels replaced artistic risk with pre-packaged, inoffensive assets for a parasocial market. ## [You Make Me My Nosebleed: Stock Crashes, Staged Engagements and the Colonization of Europe](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/live-nation-ticketmaster-monopoly-harry-styles-resale-together-tour-amsterdam-london-scalpers-azoff-rapino-flop) _2026-04-29 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ As the Live Nation-OVG cartel faces federal ruin in Manhattan, a new $12 billion monopoly merges with an aggressive european expansion to ensure the "Machinery" never stops extracting. ## [Jesus Was a Carpenter: How the Hormuz Crisis is Burying "America First" and the Live Industry](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/hormuz-crisis-live-nation-collapse-harry-styles-residency-audit) _2026-04-15 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ On how pop music ceased to entertain and began to insult the intelligence of a continent left stranded. ## [All Rise! Harry Styles’ Debut in the Antitrust Docket](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/live-nation-antitrust-rapino-deposition-harry-styles-kickback-audit) _2026-03-26 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ While fans debate "KISS ALL THE TIME", the Manhattan Federal Court has unsealed the "Black Box" of the industry, revealing the criminal geometry of the Rapino-Azoff alliance. ## [Pop is Dead: The Eternal Phoenix of the Industry](https://finelineproject.substack.com/p/pop-is-dead-drake-stake-rico-live-nation-monopoly-audit) _2026-03-20 · Rossella Singer · FLP | Fine Line Project_ From Harry Styles to Drake: The pop star as a financial derivative of a capitalism that would devour itself if it could. ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/uIu9oPkeQB3q) _2026-03-20 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [Notes from FAST 2026](https://afterhoursacademic.com/fast-2026/) _2026-03-02 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ I attended the File and Storage Technologies (FAST) conference in Santa Clara last week. Some observations and thoughts: "Art is never finished, only abandoned" The keynote talk had a section emphasizing the importance of benchmarking the various components of the system (e.g., disk, network, CPU, memory, context switching, ...) to help understand the result of application performance. The point… ## [A brief introduction to LSM trees](https://afterhoursacademic.com/lsm-trees-intro/) _2026-02-16 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ Log-structured merge (LSM) trees are widely used in key-value stores and as the storage layer of database systems. There is a rich tradeoff space in LSM tree designs which I have been reading recently. Before discussing any particular design tradeoffs (in the coming posts), I am starting with a brief introduction of the LSM tree design. Structure A LSM tree stores key-value pairs. The storage is… ## [A case for putting myself out there, aka, how to be okay appearing stupid](https://afterhoursacademic.com/stupid-okay-please/) _2026-01-19 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ I recently faced some scenarios where I was afraid to put myself (more specifically, my thoughts/ideas) out there because of the fear of appearing stupid (i.e., my ideas not being good enough). I work with some really smart people, so this fear is not unfounded either. I realized that not putting my thoughts out there would hurt more than putting out "wrong" thoughts and pushed through. First off,… ## [Parallelism strategies for neural network training](https://afterhoursacademic.com/parallelism-strategies/) _2026-01-12 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ Any large-enough neural network training job (e.g., training a LLM or an image or video generation model) employs parallelism strategies. In fact, such large scale training jobs often employ multiple strategies in conjunction. There are two reasons for using parallelism. First, the models are large enough that they don't fit on a single accelerator's memory and hence need to be split up with each… ## [ETTR, aka, how good is the training goodput](https://afterhoursacademic.com/ettr/) _2026-01-05 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ Effective training time ratio (ETTR) defines the ratio of time spent in training to the wall clock time. In intuitive terms, it is the goodput of the training job. Any time spent doing non-productive (i.e., non-training) work takes away from the goodput. Non-productive time includes reading and writing checkpoints. It also includes the time that was spent in training but had to be repeated because… ## [Highs and lows of 2025](https://afterhoursacademic.com/2025-highs-n-lows/) _2025-12-29 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ Highs \[+\] Changed jobs and landed at one I like \[+\] Learning new and interesting things at work (about carbon emissions and LLM training/inference) \[+\] Learnt to swim \[+\] Good amount of travel plus quality time with wife (Big Island, Rocky Mountains National Park, Yosemite National Park, Crater Lake National Park, Mumbai, Goa) \[+\] Read some good books (Careless People, Character Limit, Hatching… ## [How to make LLM checkpoint writes fast](https://afterhoursacademic.com/llm-checkpoint-writes/) _2025-12-21 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of years or so, you already know what a large language models (LLM) is. For the rock-dwellers, here is a quick note: a LLM is a machine learning model (more specifically, a neural network) trained on a large corpus of data (think: all the text on the internet) to predict a sequence of words. The outcome is a seemingly "smart" model that… ## [Friendships](https://afterhoursacademic.com/friendships/) _2025-12-14 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ I did not realize I was being bullied. Largely because I did not understand the concept of online trolling or bullying. This was 2010 after all. I was living in a boys' hostel with common bathrooms and one of my hostel-mates posted a photo on facebook of me coming out of the shower without a shirt on. It wasn't unusual to come out of the shower without a shirt on. Almost everyone did that. But no… ## [Byzantine fault tolerance](https://afterhoursacademic.com/byzantine-fault-tolerance/) _2025-05-13 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ I have been reading the classic consensus papers (Paxos, FLP) recently and the next one in line is about Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT). The goal of this class of algorithms is the same -- have all replicas of a state machine reach consensus (typically about the next input). The difference is in the fault model. BFT algorithms assume the existence of malicious nodes, known as Byzantine failures.… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pnPx1QuIeF63) _2025-05-13 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [Intuitive explanation of the FLP impossibility result](https://afterhoursacademic.com/intuitive-flp-explanation/) _2025-05-08 · afterhoursacademic · After Hours Academic_ FLP impossibility result states that there does not exist a fault-tolerant, safe, and live consensus protocol for an asynchronous distributed system. A fault-tolerant protocol is one that can handle failure of some nodes in the system. A safe protocol is one in which all the nodes reach the same consensus value. A live protocol is one that terminates in a finite number of steps. An asynchronous…