AAshokinashoksubbiah.in·Sep 12, 2025 · 4 min readBigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Datahttps://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf Bigtable is a massive, distributed database system created by Google to manage huge amounts of structured data. It's designed to be spread across thousands...00
AAshokinashoksubbiah.in·Sep 1, 2025 · 4 min readSpace/time trade-offs in hash coding with allowable errorshttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362686.362692 This paper, written by Burton H. Bloom, introduces a clever way to save a lot of computer memory by allowing for a small, controlled number of mistakes. The main idea is a trade-off: less space for less-th...00
AAshokinashoksubbiah.in·Dec 3, 2024 · 3 min readWTF: The Who to Follow Service at Twitternotes based on the paper https://stanford.edu/~rezab/papers/wtf_overview.pdf 1. Personalized PageRank This algorithm starts from a specific user and spreads out like water flowing through a network. It assigns higher importance to nearby users (close...00
AAshokinashoksubbiah.in·Jan 4, 2024 · 1 min readCalculators Vs AI Vs AGIRef : https://reasonisfun.podbean.com/e/agi/ Calculators are automated lookup tables. A calculator can produce results that have not been produced before, but this is not knowledge. This is because the person who wrote the algorithm knows exactly the...00
AAshokinashoksubbiah.in·Dec 3, 2023 · 1 min readNull reference exception with a twist.One Robert Barbour from Los Angeles was fond of sailing. He tried to get a custom license plate for his car. His choices were 'Boating' and 'Sailing.' The official form contained three choices and all were mandatory. So, as his third choice, he wrote...00
