Nicolay Gerold

• Solution : Apply the Single Responsibility Principle - each microservice should focus on one single capability that it masters.


• Benefits : This specialization makes microservices easier to comprehend, test, scale, and upgrade. It's like having a coordinated team where each member excels at their role.


• Pitfalls : Violating this principle leads to c

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Advances in data processing techniques. You can increase context length in two ways. First, you can train the model with longer context lengths. That’s difficult because it’s much more computationally expensive, and it’s hard to find datasets with long context lengths (most documents in CommonCrawl have fewer than 2,000 tokens).

The second, more com... See more

The number one determinant of dopamine release is novelty.

Jack Dorsey: great ability to sit back and listen, not inflicting opinions and judgments, questions to lead towards the key mission and values of the company.

A meditation practice achieving delta waves can increase the release of growth hormone.

Denormalization

Another way Reddit minimizes joins is by using denormalization.

They took all the metadata fields required for displaying an image post and put them together into a single JSONB field. Instead of fetching different fields and combining them, they can just fetch that single JSONB field.

This made it much more efficient to fetch all the ... See more

0.1% Ideas: Turning Life Into A Video Game

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​What idea do you think is true AND underpriced?

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Here’s mine: The most productive people design life like a video game.

I had this red pill moment when I saw the following:

The laziest person I’ve ever met play a video game for 16 hours straight, 7 days per week.

My brain began to hurt: The laziest person I k... See more

Startup Idea: Stonx for real estate (livestream of investors call with life chat) → you can capitalize on other‘s people expertise and questions and on the pre-curation of the service. This can be made for every category that capitalizes on visual information.

Startup creation: take a human desire and remove steps to fulfill it.

Startup Idea: : boo... See more

limbic friction: when our autonomic nervous system isn’t where we want it to be (too tired or too alert). Too alert - double inhale, one exhale & dismaying gaze. Too tired - coffee. You want to match the arousal what you want to learn. Before any learning bout: how much limbic friction am I experiencing? How much do I need?