Issue 4: Dragon Spirit 🐉
Wong Kar-Wai, why you will marry the wrong person, and AI for emotions
Happy CNY 🧨!
Here are some links from us for the week.
Got Beef?
We’ve all been in Kiki’s shoes, haven’t we
I love Wong Kar-Wai films
Earth.fm
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Tim Ferriss - Tribe Of Mentors
What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life?
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)? My readers love specifics like brand and model, where you found it, etc.
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a “favorite failure” of yours?
If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it—metaphorically speaking, getting a message out to millions or billions—what would it say and why? It could be a few words or a paragraph. (If helpful, it can be someone else’s quote: Are there any quotes you think of often or live your life by?)
What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you’ve ever made? (Could be an investment of money, time, energy, etc.)
What is an unusual habit or an absurd thing that you love?
In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?
What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the “real world”? What advice should they ignore?
What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to (distractions, invitations, etc.)? What new realizations and/or approaches helped? Any other tips?
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, or have lost your focus temporarily, what do you do? (If helpful: What questions do you ask yourself?)
Building Fonts based on Crystals
Proton
Proton is a modern day stream processing engine, serving as an alternative to Flink. I tried this out and holy moly, this blew my mind in terms of performance packed in such a small container. People should see this!
Apache Flink or ksqlDB alternative: Proton provides powerful streaming SQL functionalities, such as streaming ETL, tumble/hop/session windows, watermarks, materialized views, CDC and data revision processing, and more.
Fast: Proton is written in C++, with optimized performance through SIMD. For example, on an Apple MacBookPro with M2 Max, Proton can deliver 90 million EPS, 4-millisecond end-to-end latency, and high cardinality aggregation with 1 million unique keys.
Lightweight: Proton is a single binary (<500MB). No JVM or any other dependencies. You can also run it with Docker, or on an AWS t2.nano instance (1 vCPU and 0.5 GiB memory).
Powered by the fast, resource efficient and mature ClickHouse. Proton extends the historical data, storage, and computing functionality of ClickHouse with stream processing. Thousands of SQL functions are available in Proton. Billions of rows are queried in milliseconds.
Best streaming SQL engine for Kafka or Redpanda: Query the live data in Kafka or other compatible streaming data platforms, with external streams.
Hume.ai
AI that measures extended emotional well-being via many aspects. This is cool because the number of expression it measures is a lot more than others.