In this episode we looked at the tragic story of tech company CEOs doing drugs and the various knock-on effects.

We also played a lightning round of "Aspiring to be a nation state or on drugs?" with various headlines.

This is the final episode of Picture Me Coding for 2024 and we’ll be taking a break for a few weeks after this. But we’ll be back next year!

Mike made a playlist of all the music we talked about this year too! Find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jbM32yzvi8MK3zv2cXPSr?si=f40f8df000404a11

REFERENCES ROUNDUP

• NYT: “The C.E.O.s Are Tripping. Can Psychedelics Help the C-Suite?”
• The Verge: “Google reveals quantum computing chip with ‘breakthrough’ achievements”
• Google blog announcement of quantum computing breakthrough
• Scott Aaronson: Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » The Google Willow thing
• TechCrunch: “Court orders Automattic to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org”
• Wordpress’s Mullenweg interview with The Verge.
• Goodbye, unreliable weather forecasts? Google DeepMind's AI model sets new benchmark for 15-day predictions | TechRadar
• Google Blog: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
• the Spectator “Are you ready for agentic AI?”
• Google Genai: new Python repo with “Part” data type
• Azure’s AI Agent Service announcement
• Toms Hardware: “AI GPU Clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027”
• Big Tech Embraces Nuclear Power to Fuel AI and Data Centers - IEEE Spectrum
• https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2024/10/breaking-story-facebook-building-subsea.html

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We carried over from last week and kept doing algos! This week we talked about:
- Diffie Hellman
- Radix Trees: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/321479.321481
- Kadane's Algorithm
- Raft's Leader Election: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

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Mike wanted to talk about our favorite algorithms this week, so we covered a few:
- Fast Fourier Transforms
- Hyperloglog

Some references are below:

- Article in Communications of the ACM: What Is an Algorithm?
- Al-Khwarizmi (mathematician, wikipedia page)
- HyperLogLog Paper: https://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf

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