Weekly Digest #165

Articles

Complex versus Complicated

• complicated = not simple, but ultimately knowable.
• complex = not simple and never fully knowable. Just too many variables interact.

How much uptime can I afford?

• Each layer of your system needs to have a higher reliability, in isolation, than the final uptime you’re aiming for, because error rates are cumulative.

Slashing Data Transfer Costs in AWS by 99%

Tutorials

Efficient Linear Model Merging for LLMs

Tools

Database-like ops benchmark

mergekit, Tools for merging pretrained large language models.

Off-topic

Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries — smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearly limitless batteries