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Applied AI in Autonomous Systems

Lokesh MureIndependent researcher and technologist

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Ideas tested in public.

Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.

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Writing From Strangers to Founders

I am writing a book about the immigrant journey from arriving in America to building a life, and the story is more personal than anything I have published

  • books
  • personal
6 min read

Billionaires in Space

Bezos and Branson went to space within days of each other, and the discourse tells us more about Earth than about orbit

  • personal
6 min read

The Tesla Fleet Is Complete

With the Model X, every current Tesla model is in the driveway, and the journey to get here taught me more about obsession than cars

  • nostalgia
  • personal
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
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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
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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
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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
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