Went down the finance rabbit hole for few hours today, some resources that might be interesting:
https://github.com/mr-karan/awesome-investing
https://github.com/7kfpun/awesome-fintech
https://github.com/wilsonfreitas/awesome-quant

GCP Cloud Netwok Virtualization White Paper
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18-dalton.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/@CS153InfraTeam

#infra #scale

example of planning and detailed analysis before getting into a tool with new usecase

https://rtfm.co.ua/en/aws-introduction-to-the-opensearch-service-as-a-vector-store

TIL that even Korean and Japanese pilots officially speak English in the cockpit because their native languages make it hard to speak directly or challenge their superior (such as the senior pilot) even when an accident is imminent.

Korean Airlines used to have a higher than the international average in fatal accidents until this issue was identified and addressed by requiring pilots to speak English.

In Japanese or Korean, one is expected to be ultimately respectful of their seniors and not question them even in the most dire situations, so they might say, "I fear we might be low" rather than "we're going to hit a fucking mountain", causing the senior pilot to underestimate the danger they're in (real story).

These dynamics do sometimes play out in other countries as well, especially when the seniority and experience difference between the pilots is large.

Moral of the story: if you can't question your seniors when they're wrong, you're fucked, and the plane is going down eventually.