Tag: Zero

I have read this great book System Design Interview — An insider’s guide by Alex Xu in depth. So most of my definitions and images will be referred from this book itself as they are highly interactive and give us a clear picture of what is happening. We will be focussing fir...

On the other side, as a borrower considering using a Zero-Liquidation Loan for the first time, you might wonder about the reasonable APR and LTV at which you should borrow. For instance, if you want to use your ETH to borrow USDC, what would be a fair APR and LTV for you? While previous ar...

Most people I speak to, hate meetings. Most agree a lot of them are meaningless and add little value. What if there was another way? Would you try it? Imagine if there was a way where you could work with a team completely asynchronously, maximizing your time spent without interruptions. I f...

At the dawn of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES for short), two games were released. The first being Super Mario World, a game that needs no introduction. The other was a new kind of high speed futuristic racing game called F-Zero. Many know the F-Zero series as being a high speed and s...

In today’s fast-paced digital world, uninterrupted service is crucial for the success of any application. Downtime not only inconveniences users but can also have a significant impact on your business. That’s where zero downtime deployments come in. In this blog post, we’ll explore...

Introduction As is the nature of software, there will come a point where it’s required to deploy a bug fix or new features. Any Ops team will attest that a release is fraught with worry, that’s because performing a software release has the potential to introduce a new bug or even caus...

Copenhagen aims to be the first carbon neutral capital by 2025. This article explains how they plan to do it and hints at several obstacles along the way. First carbon-neutral capital by 2025 Copenhagen aims to be the first carbon neutral capital by 2025. Their report CPH 2020 Ro...

The zero-bail system has sparked controversy in the criminal justice system, particularly in Los Angeles County. This system allows individuals accused of non-violent or non-serious crimes to be cited and released without cash bail. The primary objective of this system is to reduce the number of peo...

I sat on the floor of my hotel room; The Sum of Us spread out in front of me, while honks and shouts wafted up through the window framing the Cambridge skyline. After several recommendations from both my brother and New York Times Opinion writers, the book’s attraction had finally ov...

This program has been extremely popular, with rider surveys ranking “keeping the fare free” as the most valued investment, eking out “better frequencies” and “more service”. Unfortunately, word on the street is that the city council is considering terminating the ...

When I joined Level 5 eighteen months ago to lead the core software efforts, the team had five software engineers, five hardware engineers, and one challenge: build a self-driving car. Now when I go to work, I enter an office with 300 engineers and a small but growing fleet of test vehicle...

“Our main objective is to give the streets back to the people,” Hanna Marcussen, Oslo’s Vice Mayor for Urban Development told BBC Future in 2019, explaining the radical changes the city was making to local streets. Marcussen’s point was that, until recently, the people of ...

In school, we all learn about the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time. We are also informed assiduously that Greenwich is not to be pronounced as Greenwich but as Grenich. And thus, we Indians struggle with another English word that is spelled in one way and pronounced in another. What man...

This type of equilibrium is called thermal equilibrium, during which reversible heat exchange occurs between systems A and B without changing the states of these systems. Absolute temperature (more commonly known as temperature in the Kelvin scale) is a state function of thermodynamic systems, de...

One of the most inviolable laws in the Universe is the second law of thermodynamics. It tell us that, in any physical system, where nothing (no particles and no energy) is exchanged with the outside environment, entropy always increases. This is true not only of a closed and isolated syste...

The future of pharmaceutical research is taking a giant leap, as scientists are harnessing the unique conditions of Space to develop pharmaceuticals that could be more effective than those produced on Earth. Welcome to the era of zero gravity, where the possibilities are endless. The Magic of Mic...

Imagine having the freedom to be your own boss, setting your own schedule, and working from wherever you want. Sounds pretty dreamy. Well, that’s the life of a freelancer! And perhaps you’re wondering if this way of making money is for you, and if it’s even possible to sta...