2 new tools for this month's reading:
- Telegram summarize bot: podcast sharing link => download link => whisper.cpp / faster-whipser => summarize + highlights
- Browser summarize extension: summarize the page, with the help from mozilla/readability lib
Podcasts are quite long, so I usually send next a few episodes and wait for a few minutes, then preview the summarization before consuming them.
Reading
Technical
Maybe people do care about performance and reliability " But they are victims of complex societal factors that are beyond their control "
Comparison of NVIDIA Tesla/Quadro and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs found this when experimenting GPU inference, 16 EPYC cores + whisper.cpp + small.en ~= Tesla T4 + faster-whisper + large-v2, where GPU instances are cheaper.
Float Compression 1: Generic "There’s basically no reason to use zlib, except for the reason that it likely exists everywhere due to its age."
Setting engineering org values. "for me personally, the value I remember most is Let Builders Build."
Meetings for an effective eng organization.
What we look for in a resume "Occasionally, a candidate would tell me that they didn’t expect their resume to still be screened by humans – had they known, they would have written their resume differently."
A history of the FFmpeg project "Hopefully you got an idea on how many talented unsung heroes had been working on FFmpeg and libav over the years."
You should take more screenshots
Safe defaults. "... to better understand the problem. In some cases, you may never need to understand the problem beyond that point, the copied approach is good enough."
Measuring an engineering organization.
What Happens When A CPU Starts
Shopify Tells Employees to Just Say No to Meetings
Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit I still managed to "leak" brainstorm template among other drafting functions, the summary prompt performs generally well but it won't group by topics, nor associate topic with facts and arguments.
Reverse engineering yet another ebook format
The 2022 Stratechery Year in Review
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes
2022 Linux Desktop Environments System Usage (Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXQT, Cinnamon, Mate) under Fedora 37 I should try IceWM sometime!
Why Business Data Science Irritates Me
评 Rewind “此外，锚定苹果生态也未必就是安全的：不能忘记苹果一直有暗中观察热门产品，等时机成熟时直接做成内置功能的「癖好」。”
Non technical
Everything I believed about nuclear waste was wrong nuclear waste and common misconceptions
Reading the Bible start to finish
Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022
The 5% Rule "(yes, I have the numbers to back this). I'm not talking about people who were having a bad day or people who were trying to work the system. There was a legit 3% to 5% of people that just wanted to be mean, nasty, selfish brutes. "
What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? "by focusing on its core business of selling printed books."
Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America
Tesla Self Driving vs Everyday Roads!
How are you doing? "A journey of emotional awareness, where we uncover the power of naming and visualizing your feelings."
2022：浏览器从 A 到 Z “将 A-Z 逐一输入到 Google Chrome 的地址栏里，Google Chrome 都会自动补全出哪些域名呢？”
当一个89岁的女人决定去办身份证 一个女人和使鹿鄂温克部族的驯鹿文化
Youtube
~10 minutes
Longer
The Best Way to Boost Your Immune System (With Science!)
Inside A Sustainable Power Plant With A Ski Slope On Its Roof | Unique Spaces | Architectural Digest
真机实测！从 2000 到 3 万块的显示器，谁更值得买？ | 13 款 Mini LED 显示器消费者报告
新疆阿勒泰禾木村，农家土火锅，大盘馕包肉，阿星住冰雪森林木屋
Podcast
80. Get Your Share of the Pie "the surplus value that can be created by reaching a deal..negotiation is really about in order to achieve a fair and efficient agreement"
‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy "a persistent misjudgment has been made, based on the fallacy that authoritarian countries can be transformed through trade"
43. The Comedian-Ophthalmologist Will See You Now anxiety->less working memory->less cognitive ability available
#141 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
From the archive: The mystery of India’s deadly exam scam
‘You can’t be the player’s friend’: inside the secret world of tennis umpires "Protocol"
From the archive: Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth "maintaining an active lifestyle, stay mentally engaged, can help mitigate this risk"
Episode 6: The Overconfidence Game mansplaining!
#142 Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership It's hard to lead, your frontal lobe needs to work so hard so that you don’t speak without thinking about the longer term, you must have the ability to deliver but you should delegate tasks to others — detox from the happiness of your own success, you’ll also get rid of ego and admit that you need help too.