Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

February 29, 2024

How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum - The Pragmatic Engineer
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To take with a pinch of salt since it has a couple of biases (most notably it focuses a lot on satisfaction) and the sample size is a bit small. A few interesting insights nonetheless. In particular it hints at autonomy, transparency, technical skills and vision as being the most important factors for satisfaction and success within teams. The applied project management method? Not so important it seems if the other factors are satisfied.

Why I use Firefox

All good reasons to use Firefox! I'm always about the market share of engines where we need diversity, but more good points are brought up here. It's the only going the extra mile to respect your privacy while bringing innovative features too (tested the in browser translation recently and it's great).

Look, Ma, No Matrices!

Interesting exploration of what could be done in a 3D engine using plane-based geometric algebra (PGA). This brings in nice properties that matrices don't have. And the performance impact is apparently not as bad as one could have suspected. I definitely look more into it.

MDN Curriculum
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Looks like a nice way to properly learn the web frontend basics.

The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits

Might be an interesting trick to reduce the computation and energy costs of large language models. Let's see if it gets replicated and generalized, this is a single short paper not peer reviewed anywhere as far as I can tell.