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About I live in NYC and I am the founder and CEO of Modal Labs which is exploring ideas related to data and infrastructure. From Feb 2015 to Jan 2021, I ran the (300-person) tech team at Better.com – a company rethinking how mortgages are done.
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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors
Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers? Why do I love infrastructure? Is open source dead? I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we
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It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans
Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can fol
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Predicting solar eclipses with Python
As I am en route to see my first total solar eclipse, I was curious how hard it would be to compute eclipses in Python. It turns out, ignoring some minor coordinate system head-banging, I was able to get something half-decent working in a couple of hours.
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Simple sabotage for software
CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage . It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about "General interference with Or
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What I have been working on: Modal
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal . Please check it out - it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all k
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