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One Year, 2025, in Books
Notes on Books I Read in 2025
The Impact of Mental Fatigue, Task Monotony, and Data Skewness on Data Annotator Performance
Humans are not machines and we need to take into account their biology when it comes to performing tedious work.
Bright Cocaine: colors and dopamine
A meta research about colors and their connection to dopamine
Pipes in Python
The pipe operator is one of the best features of linux shells that allows to combine different operations with easy. Here we will try to implement the same syntax in Python.
Data Sharding(Partitioning) Algorithms
A few experiments with data partitioning algorithms.
Interview Question: logs parsing library
Another interview question people often get wrong.
An Interview Question: Optimization of Disk Reads
One of the question I often ask in my interviews is more like an invitation for discussion rather than a question by itself.
Writing User Stories and Requirements
Recently I was reading though a bunch of technical designs and I’ve noticed a common mistake when it comes to writing user-stories and requirements -...
High Tech Energy (Attention) Vampires
Everything craves for attention and tries to optimize for user retention, dwell time or whatever. For me it means, less time for me, more time for the vampires. Fighting it back the ways I can.
Cache eviction policies: LRU vs random vs p2c
Overly simplified view of mine on cache eviction policies and their performance.
Ultra-locality in Decision Making and Free Will
This time we explore the wonderful world of ultra-locality in decision-making and its connection to free will, good, evil, and God.
AI, people, trees, and mushrooms: the same software different hardware
Exploring the idea that all living things have spirit or the ability to run neurological signals.
The matrix: a simulation, a game, a reincarnation or hallucination.
For quite some time, a few thoughts have been haunting me. What if all we see doesn't exist, and we are all hostages or participants of a game.
Lean development, customers and how it is connected to Amazon writing culture
Amazon is famous for its writing culture which I discovered later in my career. The more I wrote the easier it was to apply the similar approach to other aspects of software development.
Want to be connected? Think twice.
In the last few years companies try to connect everything to the internet and make everything be software defined from door bells, and photo cameras to cars. There are a few bad things about it.
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い (i/e) and な(na) - adjectives in Japanese
There are two types of adjectives i and na and .... some peculiarities.
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