This book was recommended by an ex-college and really enjoyed it. I didnt have any background of the book and it was interesting that there is actually a three body problem. I struggled a bit about the science at the end of the book but I was hooked from nearly the beginning.
In general, I am surprised that this book wasn’t censured in China but still I am quite happy to read something coming from China. Taking into account that I meanly read books from Western countries (mainly USA and UK/EU) that is a small portion of the world.
Ingredients: 150g extra firm tofu (more is ok) 5-6 pieces garlic small piece ginger 3 sticks green onion olive oil for frying 3 tsp dark soy sauce 150g noodles (of your choice) 1 tbsp paprika (didnt have gochugaru) 1 tbsp plant-based oyster sauce (didnt use)
Process:
Mash the tofu into a crumble with a fork
Finely chop the garlic, ginger, and green onions
Heat up a nonstick pan to medium heat with olive oil. Add the crumbled tofu. Sauté for 3-4min
Add 2 tsp dark soy sauce and sauté for another couple of minutes. Set the tofu aside
Bring a pot of water to boil for the noodles
Place the nonstick pan back on medium low heat. Add 2 tbsp olive oil and the garlic and ginger. Cook for about 2-3min
When the water comes to a boil, cook the noodles for 1 min less to package instructions. Stir occasionally to keep them from sticking
Add the paprika to the garlic and ginger. Cook for about 1min. Then, add the oyster sauce.
Strain out the noodles and add to the pan. Add 1 tsp dark soy sauce and the crumbled tofu. Turn the heat up to medium and sauté for 2-3min. Add the green onions and sauté for another minute
This is my result:
As usual, doesn’t look like the video, but it is tasty!
Meta GenAI infra: link. Interesting they have built two cluster one Ethernet and the other Infiniband, both without bottlenecks. I don’t understand if Gran Teton is where they install the NVIDIA GPUs? And for storage, I would expect something based on ZFS or similar. For performance, “We also optimized our network routing strategy”. And it is critical the “debuggability” for a system of this size. How quick you can detect a faulty cable, port, gpu, etc?
Oracle RDMA: This is an ethernet deployment with RDMA. The interesting part is the development DC-QCN (some ECN enhancement)
Cerebras WSE-3: Looks like outside NVIDIA and AMD, this is the only other option. I wonder how much you need to change your code to work in this setup? They say it is easier… I like the pictures about the cooling and racks.
Co-packaged optics: Interesting to see if this becomes a new “normal”. No more flapping links anybody? It is the fiber or replace the whole switch….
I have been watching several videos lately and I would like to be able to get a tool to give a quick summary of the video so I can have notes (and check if the tool is good). Some tools: summarize.tech, sumtubeai
Link. I struggled with this. I had to make a minimal config and then put my backup. After that, I had my blog fully recover
NGINX config
Link. I struggled here because I had to serve my blog and phpadmin from nginx. I knew how to do it via Apache but was failing with nginx. I asked ChatGPT and at the end it gave me the solution
This is the final config:
server {
server_name thomarite.uk blog.thomarite.uk;
root /var/www/html/wordpress;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/thomarite.uk.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/thomarite.uk.error.log;
client_max_body_size 100M;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}
location /phpmyadmin/ {
alias /usr/share/phpmyadmin/;
index index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
}
}
location ~* \.(?:svgz?|ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff2?)$ {
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
expires 90d;
access_log off;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
deny all;
}
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/thomarite.uk-0001/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/thomarite.uk-0001/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = blog.thomarite.uk) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
if ($host = thomarite.uk) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name thomarite.uk blog.thomarite.uk;
location / {
return 404;
}
}
Then
sudo nginx -t
sudo service nginx restart
IRCD
I need to check how this is installed properly. Check this.
Sales Psychology: I have noticed with myself lately, since I subscribed to a youtube channel, everything is a “negativity bias”. I can’t see any video with a positive message. I subscribed because I want to learn and improve but the publicity is wrong.
BERTTesting: I wonder if there is anything opensource.
Git sync fork. This something I have never tried before
1- Add remote
0) check your remote
git remote -v
1) Add new remote
git remote add upstream URL
2) git fetch/pull from the upstream
git pull upstream
Asymmetric IRB – Ingress VTEP does both L2 and L3 lookup – Egress VTEP does L2 lookup only – Bridge – Route – Bridge – Pros: “easy” to configure – just copy/paste. Identical config with the only difference in SVI IP addresses. – Cons: on the way back, traffic will be reversed => all VXLANs need to be configured on all VTEPs => increased ARP cache and CAM table sizes and control plane scaling issue => not very efficient.
Symmetric IRB – Ingress VTEP does both L2 and L3 lookup – Egress VTEp does both L3 and L2 lookup – Bridge – Route – Route – Bridge – L3 VNI should be configured on all VTEPS, L2 VNIs only where local ports exist
This was my standard bread for several years in London. I learnt it in BreadAhead.
Day 0: Feed starter
75g water room temperature 75g rye flour Mix all well, and let it at room temperature covered with a lid but not airtight. 24h in winter, 12h in summer
Day 1: add flour
Starter should be active. Kind of double in size. Best test, it is take a tea spoon of starter and check if it floats in a glass of water 500g strong white flour 320g water room temperature 10g salt 150g starter
Mix starter and water well.
Add liquid to the flour, mix roughly with the hand or a fork. Not over do it!
Wait 1h and then add salt. Push it with wet fingers
cover and let it rest in the fridge for 24h
Day 2: Folds
Take the dough out of the bridge. Wet your hand and give it a full fold (4 corners)
Let it rest 30 minutes
Another fold
rest 30 minutes
Last fold.
Tap the dough into a work surface and shape it. Try to get a tight dough.
Transfer the dough to a basket that has been cover with semolina to avoid the dough to stick to the basket.
Put it in the bridge for 24h
Day 3: Bake
Preheat oven at 250C with a tray inside.
Take dough out of the oven 5-10m before the oven is ready
Once the oven is ready, take the tray out of the oven. Use a bit of semolina.
Flip the dough from the basket on the tray. Score it!
Put the tray back in the oven.
Water spray the oven. Very important for creating the crust!
Bake at 250C for 35m aprox.
It was a good bread. I liked it and people who tried it always said good things. But never had the open spring I saw in other breads in bakeries, books and videos.
I finished this ebook yesterday. With ebooks can’t hardly take notes so in this case was a pitty but as well a bit of a relief.
Really good and better than I expected. As the title says, it is about having range, being generalist and not ultra specialized.
It gives examples where specialized (at early age) is good because it is inside a domain of well-known rules and immediate feedback like golf (Tiger Woods) and chess. It was int
But provide example of exceptional sports figures (Federer) who didnt commit to one sport to late age.
And that affects not only to sport but to your career and the research. Teams with members from different backgrounds and knowledge produce more than specialized team. It provides examples from investing to solving science problems. So it is quite shocking.
Although an early specialization will give you a head start, the general view will win in the long run. It is not bad to be very good at something, but trying different things can bring extra benefits. That’s the summary of the book.
Personally, I buy it. I like networks, but I have interests in linux, automation, hardware, baking, etc. I will never win a Nobel prize (and I dont need it) but I think it gives me from options at the end of the day. You just need to see the job descriptions where they ask for everything.
I hit rock bottom this week. I hope I finally closed one door in my life so I give myself the chance to open others. Made the wrong decision? It is easy when you look back. Do I regret it? The most annoying thing is these are failures so you can’t go back and recover. But I was so bloody newbie!!!…. At least after 5 years…
“For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.” Jack Canfield
Head down, crying, cursing, whatever, but forwards. As it has always been.
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Somehow managed to list to long videos, something I normally can’t manage (because lack of time, etc)
Negative Beliefs, avoid bitterness, aim for greatness (remarkable things), scape the darkness: Jordan B Peterson with Modern Wisdom: video, podcast.
Find and keep Love: video. 1st Get your shit together. Communication is critical. Be careful with your shopping list….
Using gNOI capabilities to simplify software upgrade use case: video – I had to idea about gNOI so looks interesting. It is crazy that still in XXI, automating a network device is so painful. Thanks to all vendors to make your life miserable.
Go lang for network engineers: videoslides– I always thought that Golang had a massive potential for network automation but there was always lack of support and python is the king. So nice to see that Arista has things to offer.
There are more things, but havent had the chance to review them.
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It looks there is new chatbot that is not using the standard NVIDIA GPU. Groq uses LPU (Language Processing Unit). And they say it is better than a GPU. They have this paper but I can’t really see feature of that LPU.
Slurp’it: Show this blog, and the product looks interesting but although is free, it is not opensource and at the end of they you dont want a new vendor-lockin
Container lab in kubernetes: Clabernetes. I would like to play with this one day.
NetDev0x17: videos and sessions. link This is quite low details and most of the time beyond my knowledge. Again, something to take a look at some point.
LLM from scratch: repo. Looks very interesting. But the book it is going to take a long time to hit the market.
