Dakshana Foundation - a unique non-profit built by a top value investor and investing in the RoI ... of people! #podcasthon special open.spotify.com/episode/6MD… #nonprofit @DakshanaIndia @MohnishPabrai

A deep dive into @Cloudflare open.spotify.com/episode/39o… Cloudflare’s journey is the story of how a spam-tracking side project among three founders blossomed into the invisible backbone of the internet, accelerating and protecting 20% of all web traffic worldwide. From its unlikely beginnings in law school to its game-changing freemium model, Cloudflare redefined internet infrastructure—fusing speed, security, and radical transparency into a global platform. Today, they’re not just powering websites, but shaping the future of edge computing, zero trust security, and cloud connectivity. Dive in to discover how relentless innovation and a mission to “build a better internet” transformed Cloudflare into a critical force behind our digital world—one whose best work happens so seamlessly, you might never even know it’s there Transcript - empor.top/us/NET

Sorting algorithm underpins all critical softwares. DeepMind's AlphaDev speeds up sorting small sequences (3-5 items) by 70%. Key takeaways: * The main RL algorithm is based on AlphaZero that originally played Go, Chess & Shogi. Same idea applies to searching programs! * Instead of optimizing over C code, they optimize assembly code instead. It's a deliberate choice to go low-level to squeeze out every instruction saving. * The assembly code is then reverse-engineered by hand to C, and open-sourced in LLVM. * Even though the representation network uses transformer, it is NOT a foundation model. The whole pipeline only works on sorting, and has to be re-trained for other tasks like hashing.