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Designing Human Feedback Interface for Trust & Safety Research Engineers
Hey everyone! I’m here to share an open-source project I built on GitHub for teams that train AI models with human feedback. The GitHub Pull Request is accessible here. I started building this tool back in July 2024 as I was applying for Anthropic’s “Human Feedback Interface” role. It was a really insightful learning experience…
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How To Build A Highly Responsive Location Service For Restaurant Delivery
Key insight: Designing a driver geo-location tracking service in one month requires critical architectural design trade-offs that balances speed of delivery and performance. Adding an audit trail service to record driver’s locations increases security and offers operations efficiencies, but introduces server load that needs to be effectively managed. Challenge At the height of the pandemic…
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Debug consistently: Easy way to instantly detect and correct rare inconsistencies in distributed systems
Key insight: Designing an integrity tool for transaction failures across a distributed system reduces the time complexity of resolving issues because the tool is designed for consistency. When the base CLI is built, the challenge becomes assessing the cost of designing an integrity tool as a check or as a fix. Challenge As discussed in…
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How to Efficiently Create Products Across Different Tech Startups: Reusable Components and Strategic Design
Key Insight: Effective systems design can generate substantial value by leveraging reusable components, enabling venture studios to accelerate product development across multiple startups. Challenge Venture studios working on multiple joint ventures face the challenge of reducing development time while maintaining high-quality outcomes. A key strategy involves creating modular, reusable components that can be adapted across…
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How to run, monitor, and enable 100 concurrent $2000 Micro-investments in Emerging Countries in the African Region
Key highlight: Effective data management integrated with internal collaboration tools can identify and measure operational and data bottlenecks while precisely identifying where businesses can focus their resources and energy to scale their operations. Introduction Occular.co has two primary business functions. First, its fractional CFO services business is Occular.co which services North America-based small to medium…
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How to secure a WordPress site using WordFence and Cloudflare
Key highlight: Investigative forensic abilities and broad theoretical knowledge on computing and security are critical in securing online resources such as websites. Strategic, methodical progress in the investigation works best with clearly articulated, hypothesized security flaws and small calculated experiments to verify progress. Introduction Recently, my primary blog, https://sapalo.dev had been attacked by malware. This…
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RapidPass: 8 unusual lessons for building in open-source against Covid-19
Key highlight: Participating in open-source projects are a great way to connect with experienced software developers and architects, from whom you can learn a lot from by engaging them as a proactive and enthusiastic apprentice. Introduction The pandemic completely disrupted the Philippines in March 2020, as the lockdowns began and people frightened in their homes…