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danielfalbo · 2026-01-09T10:33:07 1767954787

Context:

Thomson Leighton is the founder of Akamai

Lectures here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB7540DEDD482705B

One of the set of lectures on the internet I loved the most.

teshaq · 2026-01-09T22:09:02 1767996542

a couple of other resources:

- More recent lectures on MIT OCW https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-1200j-mathematics-for-computer...

- A well-paced course that follows the textbook and uses online videos done by another one of the authors (Albert Meyer) of the textbook: https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/courses/course-v1:OCW+6....

sylware · 2026-01-09T11:06:57 1767956817

akamai? Could they be more concerned with the various script kiddies and scanners using akamai (often linode) IPv4 ranges?

Please?

danielfalbo · 2026-01-08T09:20:30 1767864030

(OP)

Exactly. I care about profiles as well.

danielfalbo · 2026-01-07T14:03:52 1767794632

In the background of my head while playing: Daft Punk - Around the world

danielfalbo · 2026-01-07T11:53:27 1767786807

I also like to redirect ^https?://instagram.com/(.*) to https://imginn.com/$1

But I never trust extensions, I do it manually.

ides_dev · 2026-01-07T12:20:57 1767788457

I didn't know about Imginn, so thanks!

aceazzameen · 2026-01-08T02:48:39 1767840519

How do you do it manually?

danielfalbo · 2026-01-06T09:21:16 1767691276

https://cdn.danielfalbo.com/picturephone.mp4

Thank you for pointing out that a video may be more interesting

danielfalbo · 2026-01-05T08:43:55 1767602635

Maybe off-topic but,

If you're not familiar with the CMU DB Group you might want to check out their eccentric teaching style [1].

I absolutely love their gangsta intros like [2] and pre-lecture dj sets like [3].

I also remember a video where he was lecturing with someone sleeping on the floor in the background for some reason. I can't find that video right now.

Not too sure about the context or Andy's biography, I'll research that later, I'm even more curious now.

[1] https://youtube.com/results?search_query=cmu+database

[2] https://youtu.be/dSxV5Sob5V8

[3] https://youtu.be/7NPIENPr-zk?t=85

sirfz · 2026-01-05T11:44:24 1767613464

Indeed, I was delighted when I read the part about wutang's time capsule and obviously OP is a wu-tang and general hip hop fan. The intro you shared is dope!

znpy · 2026-01-05T16:24:02 1767630242

I can't understand if their "intro to database systems" is an introductory (undergrad) level course or some advanced course (as in, introduction to database (internals)).

Anyone willing to clarify this? I'm quite weak at database stuff, i'd love to find some undergrad-level proper course to learn and catch up.

lmwnshn · 2026-01-05T19:37:08 1767641828

It is an undergrad course, though it is cross-listed for masters students as well. At CMU, the prerequisites chain looks like this: 15-122 (intro imperative programming, zero background assumed, taken by first semester CS undergrads) -> 15-213 (intro systems programming, typically taken by the end of the second year) -> 15-445 (intro to database systems, typically taken in the third or fourth year). So in theory, it's about one year of material away from zero experience.

Tostino · 2026-01-05T17:55:54 1767635754

It's the internals.

He is training up people to work on new features for existing databases, or build new ones.

Not application developers on how to use a database.

Knowing some of the internals can help application developers make better decisions when it comes to using databases though.

Tostino · 2026-01-05T23:14:36 1767654876

Here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjYMAgsGH-Gt...

You can tell from the topics, it's related to building databases, not using them.

sargun · 2026-01-06T16:40:15 1767717615

Andy Pavlo absolutely seems like the kind of guy that I would want to get a drink with.

dang · 2026-01-05T20:15:15 1767644115

(I consed "https://" onto your links so they'd become clickable. Hope that's ok!)

danielfalbo · 2026-01-05T08:27:44 1767601664

Prepend 'pure.md/' in front of any url.

I'm sure there are more proxies around.

aembleton · 2026-01-05T09:51:31 1767606691

Thats brilliant. For example: https://pure.md/sparkbox.com/foundry/helene_and_mobile_web_p...

Now the favicon (5.92KB) is larger than the article (5.16KB). Much better than the original (4.11MB)

danielfalbo · 2026-01-04T17:14:09 1767546849

I feel you.

> I decided to leave my phone at home

I used to do this too but soon I realized I wanted my phone for payments (say, coffee) and/or unlocking public bikes (like Lime).

Now I have 2 phones: - Phone A with my SIM, internet, payment cards, but unlogged from any internet account - Phone B, no SIM, usually connected to Phone A via hotspot, with email, messaging apps, logged into hacker news and everything.

When I want to take an offline walk/ebike-ride I only bring Phone A with me.

danielfalbo · 2026-01-04T10:30:45 1767522645

In lire, che bello.

danielfalbo · 2025-12-27T16:27:02 1766852822

How do we measure this is any better than just using 1 good model?

bandrami · 2025-12-27T16:57:24 1766854644

One day someone will actually build something with an LLM and do a write-up of it, but until then we'll just keep reading about tooling.

Closi · 2025-12-27T17:05:54 1766855154

Anecdotal experience, but when bugfixing I personally find if a model introduces a bug, it has a hard time spotting and fixing it, but when you give the code to another model it can instantly spot it (even if it's a weaker model overall).

So I can well imagine that this sort of approach could work very well, although agree with your sentiment that measurement would be good.