"title"=>"Daily Reading List – March 21, 2024 (#281)",
"summary"=>"Today's links look at why big context windows are a big deal, how to design storage for AI workloads, and what it looks like to be in a \"flow state.\"",
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Are you good about taking a proper lunch hour? I’m hit or miss. Today was a ten minute lunch and I struggle to remember what I ate. Take care of yourself and eat food. At least I still was able to squeeze in some excellent blogs and articles today!
\n\n\n\n[blog] Big Context Windows Are a Big Deal. Best post of the day, no doubt. Dale writes an inspiring and engaging post about why Gemini’s context window is such a game changer.
\n\n\n\n[article] Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb to go beyond its core in-memory database. Not surprising, but it’s definitely clear that the OSS landscape has changed! Here’s more from Redis on their future.
\n\n\n\n[article] How to capture qualitative metrics. This is a continuation of a previously-shared article and it explores details on actually acquiring data for qualitative studies.
\n\n\n\n[blog] How G-Research Used TuringBots To Transform Software Development. Quick post from Diego at Forrester, but he’s been on this AI-assisted dev tool topic for a while now and has good insights.
\n\n\n\n[article] AI used extensively for security but not for coding, JFrog survey finds. Interesting results, likely skewed based on who is asking the questions. But, it’s good to get insights into the security toolchain story.
\n\n\n\n[blog] How Commerzbank safeguards its data with VPC Service Controls. Surprisingly deep post. However you create isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks, hopefully you have something like VPC-SC available to you.
\n\n\n\n[guide] Design storage for AI and ML workloads in Google Cloud. This is an excellent guide for choosing the right type of storage for each stage of an AI/ML workload. Its concepts apply regardless of where you train and run.
\n\n\n\n[blog] Leading tech people or staying a software engineer: What to choose? Panel Discussion. Most techies have this mental argument with themselves at SOME point in their career: stay as an individual contributor, or get into management?
\n\n\n\n[article] Use the Eight Elements of the ‘Flow State’ to Be More Productive. I think we all know (and crave) that feeling of being in a flow state. In the zone. Here’s more about that.
\n\n\n\n[blog] Introducing new BigQuery features to simplify time-series data analysis. BigQuery is great at structured data, unstructured data, and everything in between.
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