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Applied AI in Autonomous Systems

Lokesh MureIndependent researcher and technologist

Writing archive

Writing from 2020.

10 essays published in 2020.

Chronological archive
8 min read

2020: The Year Everything Changed

A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade

  • personal
  • career
7 min read

Apple M1: ARM Beats x86

Apple is about to ship ARM-based Macs, and if the rumors are right, this will be the most significant architectural shift in personal computing since the move from PowerPC

  • personal
7 min read

Terraform 0.13: Provider Requirements Done Right

Terraform 0.13 introduces proper provider source addresses and module-level provider requirements, fixing one of the most persistent pain points in infrastructure as code

  • terraform
  • cloud
6 min read

Kubernetes 1.19: The Platform Is Mature

Kubernetes 1.19 extends the support window to one year and moves Ingress to GA, signaling that the platform has crossed from innovation to infrastructure

  • kubernetes
  • cloud
6 min read

Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla

Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry

  • nostalgia
  • personal
7 min read

GPT-3: AI Can Write

OpenAI's GPT-3 paper demonstrates that scaling a language model to 175 billion parameters produces something qualitatively different from what came before

  • ai
6 min read

The World Went Remote Overnight

COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all

  • cloud
  • personal
6 min read

A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds

Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020

  • personal