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Moses Koledoye

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staff engineer @google , value investing in african startups.

Joined December 2013

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Moses Koledoye

6 years

Society has no mechanism for recycling the experience of founders of failed startups. Sad to see friends who have worked for up to 3 yrs at their now failed startup, getting into a regular job where they never to get share or apply experience gained from failure.

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@MoVonLagos

Moses Koledoye

9 months

I got promoted to Staff Engineer last year (my 3rd promotion at Google in 4 yrs) and I'm thinking of doing a Twitter Space/AMA to share some of the things I learned re navigating a career in tech. Trying to gauge if this is something folk might be interested in. Pls rt for reach.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Thanks to everyone who joined the AMA. As promised here's a @lifeatgoogle recording I did months back on interviewing and working as a Senior Software Engineer at Google:

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Being a Senior Software Engineer at Google

Speakers share more about their roles, career trajectories, and differences in expectations from candidates interviewing for Senior Software Engineering roles.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

I hit the 5 yr mark at Google today, it's been an absolutely amazing ride and I strongly believe there's still a lot of potential to unlock (think googol == 1.0 × 10^100).

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Ok, there's interest. I've asked my friend and colleague @_alternatewolf (an excellent moderator) to help with moderating a Twitter Space for an AMA sometime next week. We'll share details tomorrow. Thanks everyone!

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Ended the talk a few minutes ago. Feedback was generally positive except it was quite intense: syscalls, public key encryption, port forwarding, agent forwarding etc. all within 2 hrs 🥲 Thanks to the organisers and everyone who attended 💪🏽

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System Design Conversations

1 year

Hi everyone, we're excited to announce our next conversation: SSH Internals with Moses Koledoye ( @MoVonLagos ) on Sun, April 16th, 2023, at 6pm GMT. Moses is a Senior SRE at Google that has worked extensively on distributed systems, particularly with SSH.

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

One of the things I enjoy most about working at Google is the unique class of problems one encounters, problems software will never run into if it isn’t serving billions of users.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

If a bunch of Nigerian ML engineers dropped a new LLM with a hypermassive 30 billion parameters, they'd best call themselves 30bg.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

My @sysdsgn SSH internals tech talk from months ago is now available on YouTube.

@sysdsgn

System Design Conversations

1 year

We've published SSH Internals by @MoVonLagos , a lecture-style conversation, on our YouTube channel . Watch, leave a comment and subscribe 😁.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

Unix directories are literally "inside that your file, another file dey inside".

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

I hope to God for some ungodly levels of productivity this year.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

My kid brother asked me how to become good at writing. My reply was to read a lot of good writing and to write a lot. Like most things, it takes practice. For a start, I've asked him to go read all of Paul Graham's essays:

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Baselines are powerful: you move with folk for whom society’s extraordinary is their ordinary and you’re forced to consistently push your own limits.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

A ride or die manager is quite likely the biggest career advantage one can get, much better than what a superb team or project offers.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Now taking questions ahead of this Saturday's AMA to better prepare with thoughtful and relatable answers, and to get quality conversations from the overall session.

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System Design Conversations

9 months

Ahead of the upcoming AMA with @MoVonLagos , we'd like to compile some questions from attendees. Please add your questions here: . You can also upvote existing questions -- questions with more votes will have a higher priority.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

It’s official. @DimejiMudele now holds a PhD. Boom!

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

Art is the climax of human ingenuity and code at its finest form tramsutes into art. Here's Linus Torvalds' linked list argument for good taste. Artsy!

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GitHub - mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste: Linus Torvalds' linked list argument for good taste,...

Linus Torvalds' linked list argument for good taste, explained - mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

I'm realizing how much stuff my future self can get done if I manage to eat the cost of networking with good folk in the interim.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Relatable. Too many years working on a specialized/niche area that you become the (number one) expert but become comically out of tune with everything else. "How to re-integrate with society after a PhD" could be a best-seller.

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Imposter syndrome final boss

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

"Okunrin meta" is the Yoruba analog for a male 10x engineer.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

SRE is a via negativa approach to software engineering. We prefer derisking to over-engineering to achieve reliability. Instead of spending countless hours trying to make a service 99.9995% reliable, we spend time removing risks that can burn the miniscule 0.0005% error budget.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Designing Data-intensive Systems - @martinkl Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track - @Lethain

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Gergely Orosz

3 years

What are the best books you've read as an engineering manager or software engineer this year? Books that taught you something new related to your job, provided inspiration, ideas.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Did a second recording on coding interviews at Google as well:

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Coding interviews at Google

Dive deeper into what to expect from Coding interviews at Google and how to best prepare.

www.youtube.com

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Opportunity is the great equaliser.

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Tunde Onakoya

3 years

We had a revolutionary idea to Make suits for the boys and dresses for the girls(Inspired by The queen’s gambit) to tell a new narrative of children in the slums that is not just one of poverty, but an image of what is possible if they’re given equal opportunities to excel.

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Moses Koledoye

6 years

@shinynew_oz I'm starting at Google SRE next Monday :) I wish you the best on your next gig.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Imagine yourself as a 10yr old kid from a remote place in Florida watch SpaceX launch rockets and recollect them for reuse on a steady. Imagine what that does to the boundaries of your realm of possibility.

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Falcon Heavy launches USSF-52 to orbit from Florida

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Yeah no, your reply with "boss" will only have to come with a different pitch just to indicate who's the bigger boss. All Nigerians know this.

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When a guy calls me boss am I supposed to call him boss back? We can't be each other's boss, it's nonsensical

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

One of the peak moments in which I had felt truly proud to be Nigerian was the launch of the NigeriaSat-1 satellite. Atypical Saturday morning in 2003, live launch on NTA, heart heaving with expectation, I had begun to nourish a deep belief we were on a course for great things.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

New arrival. Can’t wait to dive in. Thank you for writing this @Lethain

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

@asemota Hegemony isn’t pronounced “hegemoney” for nothing.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Details here. Thanks @_alternatewolf

@_alternatewolf

ayo (padawan)

@_alternatewolf

9 months

I’ll be hosting an AMA with my friend @MoVonLagos next Saturday by 6 pm WAT (via @sysdsgn ). Moses is a Staff Engineer at Google who has been promoted 3 times in 4 years — an incredible feat, given the commonly accepted rate.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

Your elastic load balancer is as elastic as the size of your pocket.

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

2023 was awesome, let's do more of this.

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

I hope to God for some ungodly levels of productivity this year.

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

That job posting was just objectively wrong on many grounds. The more reason why stronger labor laws are required in Nigeria to protect against such predatory and discriminatory job postings and/or workplaces.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

When everyone is talented or has access to the same opportunities, hardwork becomes a primary differentiator for outcomes.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

@markessien

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

Adulthood is all about perfecting routines, leaning into deeper connections with those you love, and managing tiredness.

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

I have a theory based on empirical evidence that men asymptomatically approach their best form from repeated cycles of breaking and making.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

In God we trust, all others must present their X.509 certificate.

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

And the more you learn to say "no", the easier it is to sustain high quality on engagements for which you say "yes".

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

There's a further math kerfuffle doing the rounds and I feel compelled to say folk should not be made to think math is yet another subject. Like language, there are things in the universe that are currently best understood through math.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

One of the biggest costs economic immigrants pay is living away from parents in their last and probably most crucial years. Technology helps with maintaining contact, but it's only an approximation of shared presence.

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

For landing impact in an org where process and ambiguity are rife (read Big Tech), I find “speculative execution” invaluable. As long as the cost of throwing away work stays marginal, I’d pick this over idling while planning-to-make-a-plan on how to execute.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

It is one thing to be talented, it’s another to keep seeking new and hard challenges that may prove you’re not as talented as you think.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Google, OpenAI, Meta, Mistral all dropping banger AI updates this week. Me: still trying to get through the arxiv papers for the updates from last December.

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

To be vulnerable, to know and be truly known, is to live to the fullest.

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

One of my eventual goals is to be a farmer, owning and running several server farms.

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Moses Koledoye

10 months

All valid points. A bit latent are how being on a high-impact, high-visibility project + an excellent manager are career tailwinds that make the cost of reaching staff less prohibitive. Speaking from personal experience. Pick your project(s) and your manager(s), if you can.

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Ryan Peterman

10 months

Why most engineers don't make it to Staff: They have the wrong behaviors and mindsets. I went from Junior to Staff in 3 years largely because of the way I worked. 3 behaviors that helped me (feel free to copy):

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Laziness and ingenuity have driven technical innovation more than passion about coding ever will.

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1 year

If you're coding only for the paycheck, you're in it for the wrong reasons. Passion is what drives innovation. Code because you love it, because it challenges you, because it excites you. Then, success will follow.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

That saying about not confusing a clear vision for a short path is particularly applicable to software engineering roadmaps.

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Moses Koledoye

7 years

@Bitcoin_Mafia @SatoshiLite Been a long week for me, and I'm thinking to take the day off. Will schedule parting for Monday. HODL thou on!

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Picked up gardening recently and I'm increasingly finding it refreshing. Plus it feels like a new license to justifiably play with sand (as an adult).

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Moses Koledoye

9 months

Also analogous to implicit SLOs: when you don't define an explicit SLO for your service, past performance becomes your implicit SLO.

@erikras

Erik Rasmussen 👨‍💻🇺🇸🇪🇸

9 months

When people make demands in Open Source issues...

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Growing up in sub-urban Nigeria, I remember going to cyber cafes in the early 2000s to google stuff for my science projects. Google to me was more than just a search engine, it was a portal to endless knowledge. Happy 25 to my real G.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

I went from academic research in distributed robotic systems to SRE work in distributed systems. There, Steve Jobs, I'm gradually connecting all the dots.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

After months of interviewing, the final stage, onsite in SF, had 6 interviews on one day. Lunch/1:1 with the CEO was the climax and was quite memorable. Eventual offer was conditioned on getting a US work visa which never came through. Deep deep sadness at the time.

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Hiten Shah

4 years

What was the most memorable experience you had while interviewing for a job?

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Sleep is basically nature performing garbage collection.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Intellectual maturity is knowing that hard problems aren’t the only ones worth solving.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

People often measure themselves by what they see from others around them and never truly know what limits they're capable of beyond a made-up yardstick.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

I don’t know which is more prestigious: Winning a perf optimisation award for rewriting a (C++) batch pipeline. Or Being nominated as one of the top meme creators (internal) at Google for yr 2020.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

Black Tax goes in the budget like every other expense. And given the nature of one-off requests and never ending emergencies, it requires discipline and honesty to keep within said budget and to say no before it becomes overbearing. That or financial self-immolation.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

🚀 #GoogleIO2021

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TensorFlow

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🛠 Building the Responsible AI Toolkit. Today at #GoogleIO , we announced a new dataset exploration tool, Know Your Data! Learn how to integrate Responsible AI practices into your ML workflow in this session with @LudovicPeran and @catherina_xu . Watch →

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Moses Koledoye

8 months

There's a Dublin in California and folk in SF just undermine my 12hr travel because they think I'm from around when I say I'm visiting from Dublin, lol.

@NoContextHumans

Out of Context Human Race

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Moses Koledoye

8 years

In the presence of water or moisture, will IronPython reduce to Rust?

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

It's 2049, a new Are-Ona-Kankanfo emerges in Yoruba land and the title's leading word "Are" is inaugurally expanded to AI Reliability Engineer, thereby embracing the zeitgeist of the times.

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Moses Koledoye

6 years

Many in academia dream of having their publications cited by many others, alas, they constantly get scythed by the peer review committee.

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Moses Koledoye

5 years

Patience is a virtue of great software engineers. Patience, with the compiler.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Got a present from @pfbyjy : Fermat's Last Theorem.

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Moses Koledoye

6 years

IDEA: AI-powered IDE that can give hints about what a line or block of code does when highlighted.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Nigeria is saturated with energy and talent, opportunity is what's lacking.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Given these numbers, I take it that profit in payments is more volume and less margin.

@mitchell_sorkin

The ATM Guy - Mitchell

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7 months

The fact that Stripe processed 1 TRILLION dollars in payments and posted a profit of $100M is one of the most disturbing business facts I've heard in a while.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Twitter/X can help with metacognition but too much of it, and it does start to feel like intellectual scavenging. And naturally, a lot of the hardwork actually happens offline.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

Microservices just fell off.

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Moses Koledoye

1 year

@OlacodedM Good thread. My general advice is to be decidedly clear about what and whatnot is negotiable. I took an entry level role at Google after my PhD partly because the recruiter did not realize I had a PhD and I felt too exhausted to take more interviews to be leveled up at the time.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Curse of knowledge/expertise. I usually try to find real world scenarios that map to the concept I’m trying to explain. It gets harder if I can’t find one.

@rakyll

Jaana Dogan ヤナドガン

3 years

The deeper you know an area, the harder you need to work on a daily basis to communicate your ideas.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

"Started from subpar initial conditions, now we're here." – Drake or something

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Be it Yaba or Yerba Buena, good tech thrives. Congrats to @theflutterwave

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

The engineering strategy doc is the principal engineer's manifesto. That strategy doc is how they get their hundreds to thousands of engineers marching in the same direction.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

"my desert, my Arrakis, my dune" – semiconductor CEO on their GPU silicon.

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Moses Koledoye

5 years

If you haven't understood the value of your own time, you could hardly value others'.

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Moses Koledoye

6 months

When it comes to certain human capabilities, these ML models are learners both in a literal and rhetorical sense.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Having another engineer who listens (regarding project woes, small wins, team/org dynamics etc.) is generally good for your sanity as a software engineer. I like to call it core-dump buddy.

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Moses Koledoye

10 months

Disruptive companies are hard to build because having super smart folk by itself is not sufficient, the same folk also need to believe (to a much higher degree) in the mission of the co. enough to take full ownership of whatever is in their sphere of influence and then some.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Once you know how, it only becomes a question of when.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

If academic paper reviews can be like code reviews where some reviews are just a rubber stamp; no-op for author(s). As against reviewers almost always needing to suggest something for "improving" a paper.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

To be honest, I miss the thrill of writing and publishing academic papers: the whoosh of passing deadlines, LaTeX, reviewers pontificating over something you’d considered irrelevant etc. I miss it all.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

@sethrosen Waiting for the sql to the pilot.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

@Samuel_NET Agreed. “Make each program do one thing well” is one Unix philosophy that’s worked out pretty well.

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Activation energy is a property that applies reasonably well to cities. Some cities leave you feeling lethargic or underwhelmed too often i.e. high activation energy, requiring mental footwork to get basic stuff done (because bureaucracy, weather or just local culture).

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

We've got to rediscover customer obsession (as against product competitiveness) all over again.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Should anyone even be allowed to deploy AI at scale and publicly if they can't explain it?

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

Towards elections, Nigerian politicians always apply the peak-end rule — hand out meager incentives to undermine the gruesome experience voters have endured in the last 4 years.

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Moses Koledoye

3 years

Switched teams last week, and had absolutely no meetings for an entire day for the first time in a long time today. What a feeling!

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Moses Koledoye

5 years

2009 - Started toying with programmable computers during my third year of elect/elect engineering, FUTA, Nigeria. 2019 - Finished a CS PhD. Started work @Google ~2 weeks after final submission. Living in fourth country.

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The year is 2009. 10 years ago. What were you up to? Looking back, did you know you will be where you are right now? A lot can happen in 10 years, heck, even in 3 years!

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3 years

The lazier the engineer, the better.

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Moses Koledoye

6 years

"The most functional systems are usually written by those who use them." – SRE, How Google runs production systems

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Moses Koledoye

7 months

Those years harboured ambition. The talk of the day was not merely putting food on tables, Nigeria entertained and pursued grander plans. Quite disheartening to see how it's all gone downhill.

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Moses Koledoye

4 years

@asemota The people who changed Job’s mind were equally as visionary. I think that clarification is important.

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Moses Koledoye

2 years

@tega_igh Pls, save “Kote” for whichever project is written in Kotlin.

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