Archive - Yak Shaving

Why do we need a bias parameter in neural networks?

Changing the weight of the function changes the steepness of the sigmoid, but sometimes we need to be able to shift the function, right wards or…

Dec 26, 2023 •

Siddharth Sarda

May 2021

Service Health and Health Checks

We were talking about health check endpoints(/health) for a service in our team standup yesterday. These checks are usually used by some kind of work…

May 13, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

April 2021

Time in Distributed Systems

Confusion that never stops, Closing walls and ticking clocks

Apr 11, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

March 2021

Learning Distributed Systems

A self directed learning path and foundational material

Mar 24, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

Something important for someone important

What to work on?

Mar 13, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

February 2021

Ashby's Law and Managing Software Entropy

Why one size fits all doesn't work

Feb 7, 2021 •

Siddharth Sarda

December 2020

November 2020

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