Ryan Dahl

The majority of server programs are Linux programs. They consist of a file system, some executable files, maybe some shared libraries, they probably interface with system software like systemd or nsswitch.

This post is in response to the Optimistic Nihilism video by Kurzgesagt. Optimistic Nihilism perfectly describes my perspective on life and the universe. I want to add my interpretation of the philosophy and spice it up with some science fiction ideas.

Last year, after nerding out a bit on TensorFlow, I applied and was accepted into the inaugural class of the Google Brain Residency Program. The program invites two dozen people, with varying backgrounds in ML, to spend a year at Google's deep learning research lab in Mountain View to work with the scientists and engineers pushing on the forefront of this technology.

Have you seen Reddit's /r/colorization sub? People use photoshop to add color to old black and white photos. This is a good problem to automate because perfect training data is easy to get: any color image can be desaturated and used as an example.

It's unnecessary and complicated at almost every layer. At best I can congratulate someone for quickly and simply solving a problem on top of the shit that they are given. The only software that I like is one that I can easily understand and solves my problems. The amount of complexity I'm willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved.

This document was an attempt at understanding how best to port Node.js to Windows. The result of the port was the library libuv, which (among other things) provides a unified interface for asynchronous networking on the three big operating systems: Linux, OSX, and Windows.