Weekly Digest #164

Articles

Those five spare hours each week

• Build deep context — Write code, or otherwise engage in the detailed work within the Engineering organization you lead
• Build broad context — Expand your context outside of Engineering, better understanding your peer function’s work, goals and obstacles. This might be talking with customers, discussing product tradeoffs, understanding how marketing is driving interesting, etc
• Improve current systems and process — Work on your engineering strategy, planning process, or pretty much any existing element of how your Engineering organization operates
• Build relationships — Expand your internal or industry networks

Attacks on machine learning models

Useful tradeoffs are multi-dimensional.

1. Two-dimensional tradeoffs always disappoint someone
2. You can usually make a tradeoff that doesn’t disappoint anyone by introducing a new dimension

Tutorials

Beyond Self-Attention: How a Small Language Model Predicts the Next Token

Tools

TaskWeaver, A code-first agent framework for seamlessly planning and executing data analytics tasks

dive, A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

Off-topic

TOMTOM Traffic Index Ranking 2023

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