Daily Reading List – August 20, 2024 (#380)

I’ve got a short trip up to Kansas City tomorrow to chat with some customers and do some live demos. I like working at a place that requires me to constantly update my demos to show off new functionality!

[blog] Gemma explained: An overview of Gemma model family architectures. This is an informative deep dive into the architecture of these open models and helped me better understand how we put them together.

[paper] An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning: Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications. I didn’t understand all of it, but I got the gist. Skim this paper to learn about this branch of AI that’s different from supervised or unsupervised learning based on datasets.

[docs] Best practices for securing SSH access to VM instances. This topic is the opposite of flashy AI stuff, but there are probably 10,000 people SSH-ing into a server for every one person building an AI app today!

[blog] Developer Content That Ranks in 2024. What type of content attracts the most developers? Adam takes a look.

[blog] Use intelligent suggestions for table conversion in Google Sheets. Little feature, big value. Anything that saves me time formatting data is a winner in my book.

[article] How close is AI to replacing product managers? Generative AI is pretty darn good at some of the core tasks of a PM.

[blog] C4 VMs now GA: Unmatched performance and control for your enterprise workloads. If you don’t care about price performance, keep scrolling. Otherwise, check out this great new VM type.

[blog] Does Open Source Work as a Long-Term Business Model? It doesn’t look like Yugabyte is going to copy CockroachDB’s license change. This post looks at the rise of PostgreSQL and the risk of positioning against it.

[article] Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations. Long read, but a good one about some of the fundamentals of platform engineering.

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