Papers

• [07/10/23] Efficient and robust approximate nearest neighbor search using Hierarchical Navigable Small World graphs
• [07/01/23] Bitcoin Whitepaper
• [06/23/23] MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

Engineering

• [08/16/24] Dealing with rejection (in distributed systems)
• [08/03/24] How We've Scaled Dropbox
• [08/01/24] The tragedy of systemd
• [03/05/24] Doing Microservices Completely Wrong: Distributed Monoliths
• [09/22/23] How Cloudflare built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domains
• [09/22/23] Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
• [09/21/23] Scaling the GitHub API with a sharded, replicated rate limiter in Redis
• [09/13/23] Why Nvidia’s AI Supremacy is Only Temporary
• [09/08/23] How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
• [09/01/23] Scalable Machine Learning at Cloudflare
• [08/29/23] Reducing Cold Start time for LLM Inference at Scale.ai

Domestic

• [06/10/24] New York’s Governor Is Inept
• [03/05/24] Global Liquidity Is Ready To Push Assets Higher
• [01/26/24] Cooler Inflation Keeps Door Open for Rate Cuts This Year
• [01/22/24] Companies rush to bond market in record $150bn debt splurge
• [01/21/24] This Isn’t Your Father’s S&P 500. Don’t Worry About Valuations.
• [10/09/23] Americans Are Still Spending Like There's No Tomorrow
• [10/09/23] The Free-Money Experiment Is Over
• [10/09/23] Corporate America Is Ignoring Jay Powell and Bingeing on Debt
• [10/09/23] The 5% Bond Market Means Pain Is Heading Everyone's Way
• [09/26/23] The Hedge Fund That Made a Killing Betting Against Lina Khan
• [08/27/23] Quiet Cutting

Global

• [06/10/24] How the Talmud Became a Best-Seller in South Korea
• [10/19/23] A Financial Crisis in China Is No Longer Unthinkable
• [10/19/23] China's loans pushing world's poorest countries to brink of collapse
• [10/12/23] Lessons from the 1970s Energy Crisis Can Help Prevent the Next One
• [10/12/23] What the West Loses by Trading With Dictatorships
• [10/12/23] The Bank of Japan should stop defending its cap on bond yields
• [10/12/23] Rising bond yields are exposing fiscal fantasy in Europe
• [08/29/23] Xi's Age of Stagnation
• [08/29/23] Germany is Losing its Mojo

Lectures

• [10/11/23] Noam Chomsky on Modern-Day American Imperalism: Middle East and Beyond
• [10/11/23] Noam Chomsky on Power and Ideology
• [10/09/23] Yale ENGL 291: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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