Parallel Experiments
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Google出了个纪录片系列Hacking Google讲网络安全,题材有趣,制作精良。

第一集上来就介绍了Operation Aurora,aka极光行动:09年由中国解放军发起的针对美国互联网企业的大规模网络攻击,目的是获取中国人权活动人士的Gmail信息。

该事件直接导致了Google决定退出中国。

https://youtu.be/przDcQe6n5o
https://coke.do/issues/115-1468280
推荐可乐周报,质量很棒,比如最新这期就有两个非常好的 insight:

- 免费贡献99%的部分,对剩下的1%收费。https://dailywritinghabits.substack.com/p/give-away-99-for-free-monetize-the
- 四种作者,你想成为哪一种?https://qr.ae/pvux48
https://evantravers.com/articles/2022/06/30/dating-other-task-managers/

Great insights. The main takeaway for me is to have "the List" and "the Brain", where "the List" is things you committed to do soon (say today).

I have been using a similar system where there is a list of "immediate todos" and a backlog. The difference is my "immediate todos" are not actually what I committed to do soon. And that sometimes leads to procrastination. I will be trying out this new "the List vs. the Brain" approach to see if it helps.

> Still more intriguing: Brain and List could be separate systems.
E.g. copy items from the List to a piece of paper first thing in the morning.
感谢 limboy 主持录制和剪辑!
https://bytetalk.fm/posts/episode-10/
https://lloydtabb.substack.com/p/data-is-rectangular-and-other-limiting
A primer on where SQL falls short especially with hierarchical / nested repeated data and an attempt to solve it.

Two things that are particularly interesting:
- Malloy introduces the concept of aggregate locality [1] to make it much easier and less error-prone to express query intent with nested repeated data. See also symmetric aggregates [2].
- Malloy not only understands nested data, but also writes nested data.

There are also the VS Code Extension [3], native DuckDB support, ... that makes it easy to work with Malloy.

[1] https://malloydata.github.io/documentation/language/aggregates.html#aggregate-locality
[2] https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/best-practices/understanding-symmetric-aggregates
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=malloydata.malloy-vscode

Disclaimer: Malloy is an experimental project created by lloyd tabb, the co-founder of Looker which was acquired by Google. I currently work in the Looker organization but don't directly work on or with Malloy. Opinions are my own.