Software, Geekery and other miscellany
"Hire a good talent, then get out of the way and give them room to do their job". (ie, don't meddle/micromanage) Is this good advice?
Paul Graham's latest article on Founder mode is making waves. In the article, Paul talks about the common management wisdom that I've quoted above …
For an LLM to work, it needs to somehow assign a meaning to a word. The problem is words can have different meanings in different contexts and be related to different words in multiple ways.
For example, Python and Java are related, so is Python and Cobra, and so is …
Did this so much in the past. The easy - and wrong - way to do product management
👑LinkedIn has a daily game called Queens.
Everyday you get a new map with 8 coloured areas and you have to place 8 queens such that there is one queen per row, one queen per column, one queen per colour and no two queens can be adjacent.
The post below …
There is an interesting parallel between AI and written scripts.
Logographic scripts, like Chinese or Japanese Kanji, there is a separate 'glyph' to represent each word. If you can read the script, you can understand the meaning even if you don't know how to pronounce the word.
Phonetic scripts, like …
I was listening to a podcast today and Brian Holt was asked to pick something that everyone should check out. Normally folks pick the new hot thing that they are excited about. Brian picked Excel.
💯great pick.
Every alternate post on my timeline is about how Excel is obsolete, AI …
I often say that developers should always attend local meetups and conferences. It's not for the knowledge. You can get knowledge anywhere - Internet, YouTube, blogs. Even most conferences themselves will release the talk videos.
The main point of attending a conference is to meet other developers. Developing connections in the …
The most annoying key on the keyboard is the Caps Lock. Does anyone actually use this key? It seems to get activated at the most inopportune moments (eg: when typing a password) without our knowledge.
But there are times when you want to type a small word in caps. Especially …
What is more important in software development? Having better quality team members? Or having the team members work together in a better way?
I was reading a post today explaining about how team performance in software development is more important than individual performance. And one part of the post said …
A recent news report says that Swedish schools are ditching tablets and back to books.
"Sweden’s Minister of Schools, Lotta Edholm, said children’s ability to read has deteriorated and their writing skills have weakened, and there are many reasons, the most important of which is their increased reliance …