Trung Nguyen

2024 was a turning point for me (in a positive way), and I'm forever grateful for whatever happened during the past year. Although no talking about 2025 until Lunar New Year's Eve, I hope that I could get things right next year and onwards 🎉 Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

#2024 #2025

7. First breakup

My almost two-year relationship had ended. It was easy and hard at the same time, and it made me realize a lot. It was hard to end something beautiful for the past 2 years, but maybe I was never able to discover who I truly am, if I still clinged on it.

6. Discovered myself

I always wondered to myself "what am I pursuing?". And it struck me recently that I would do everything to get to the point where I could do everything I want. In other words, freedom.

Hence the motto "a very, very free spirit".

5. Lots of reading and learning, but non-tech

I read bunch of great books about business and management this year, and were on my way of learning finance and economics. I loved the mathematical viewpoint of finance and econ. And I hope, maybe, that I could put all those to good use next year 🫡

4. Connecting to people

This year I did lots of reaching out to people (part of my jobs btw). I connected to old buddies at school, and made new friends along my only trekking trip of the year. It was never lonely this year, and that's awesome 😁

3. Learning, and keep learning

I got 2 professional-level AWS certs. First time learned React Native and first bug fix in RN core library as well 😜. I learned a bunch about cloud, DevOps and platform engineering. Started lots of experiments, some yielded great results for my work 🤩

2. Making impact

In 2023 my favorite book was about taking initiatives and making impact, and in 2024 I put it in action. Everything I touched turned into gold. My software outsourcing business grew, like x2. I did things that transformed every tech project I lead. It was phenomenal 🎉

1. Lots of first things:

I had my first time travelling abroad (Taiwan, Singapore x2, Thailand). I discovered my favorite sports: running and mountain trekking. I got my first half-marathon this year 🤩.

Summary of my 2024

I would write past year's summary on New Year's Eve, and will post my new year's resolution on Lunar New Year's Eve. It's my thing though 😅. So here's the summary of my 2024

From the OpenAI community on Reddit: OpenAI o3 is equivalent to the #175 best human competitive coder on the planet. Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community

www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

No shit 😬🙏

#ai #llm #genai #openai #o3

One for the best question asked, one for the winning mini-game 🎉 I always like Cloudfare mantra "Helping build a better Internet.". The internet can be better, and Cloudfare is on the right track I believe.

#cloudfare #developer #meetup #internet #tech

Alignment faking in large language models A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models

www.anthropic.com/research/ali...

This thing is scary 😬

#ai #llm #anthropic #claude #tech

1-800-ChatGPT - Calling and Messaging ChatGPT with your phone | OpenAI Help Center

Hello, GPT is speaking 📞📞📞

help.openai.com/en/articles/...

#ai #llm #gpt #chatgpt #openai

So funny 😂 Well, xAI looks sus 😉

#anthropic #ai #llm #tech #meme

Ilya Sutskever: Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks at NeurIPS 2024 YouTube video by Nadira Povey

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQQd...

I really like the saying "Data are the fossil fuel of AI". It reflects the current boundary of the pre-training scaling law, and somehow recognizing that is the first step towards coming up with a solution to overcome that hurdle!

#ai #llm #tech

Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.

blog.google/technology/r...

I'm not sure what's the implication after this, but it's worth looking forward to!

#quantum #computing #tech #gpu #cpu

AWS announces $1 billion cloud credit for AI startups Amazon.com's cloud unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced a significant new initiative: $1 billion in cloud credits for startups developing...

www.dailysabah.com/business/tec...

Unlimited bill, unlimited credit to go 💸💸💸

#ai #aws #cloud #billing

#react #frontend #tech

React v19 – React The library for web and native user interfaces

react.dev/blog/2024/12...

React 19 ✅
React compiler 🕓

computer-use-ootb.github.io

I'm pretty wow with Claude Computer Use feature!

#ai #llm #genai #claude #anthropic

From the ClaudeAI community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s...

I used Claude too, and it's the best $20 in every month 😁

#ai #productivity #claude #anthropic

GitHub - containerd/stargz-snapshotter: Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling Fast container image distribution plugin with lazy pulling - containerd/stargz-snapshotter

github.com/containerd/s...

Pulling packages accounts for 76% of container start time, but only 6.4% of that data is read [FAST'16](www.usenix.org/conference/f...)

#container #devops #containerd #docker #oci

Primer on Linux container filesystems Building a container filessytem by hand

open.substack.com/pub/michalpi...

I really need to get back to the basics again.

Best Questions and Answers to the “Terrifying Netflix Concurrency Bug” Post Why couldn't we roll back? Weren't we concerned about costs? Why is operating Netflix so complicated? Plus many others.

pushtoprod.substack.com/p/best-quest...

Sometime the best solution at that moment is the one going against the standards. But as long as it is the best one possible, who cares?

#devops #incidence #tech

Hybrid node 😁

Now EKS is on par with ECS

#aws #devops #eks

HashiCorp Terraform 1.10 adds Ephemeral Values to Improve Secret Management HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.10, which introduces ephemeral values - a concept designed to protect sensitive information, such as passwords, which is often required to provision infrastructure w...

Hmm, how about OpenTofu? #terraform #devops #opentofu

www.infoq.com/news/2024/11...