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HackrLife

HackrLife, is a podcast about personal growth, mental models, life hacks and technology. In my day job I work for Google. In my spare time I create products, content and designs to learn new things by doing them. HackrLife is a compilation of these learnings. A way of life where we are always learning.

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What is sharding in the realm of blockchain technology? from 2023-10-07T13:31:50

Sharding, a database partitioning technique, has been heralded as a solution to blockchain scalability issues. By dividing a blockchain into smaller, parallel segments or "shards", it ...

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What exactly is the role of transformers in LLM models like ChatGPT? from 2023-10-07T13:25:43

In the fast-evolving realm of artificial intelligence, few innovations have captured the imagination of researchers and entrepreneurs alike like LLMs akin to Chat GPT and what they can do. At it...

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Yield farming in the world of DeFi from 2023-10-05T13:19:29

Yield farming, often likened to staking, is a method where users provide or "lock up" their assets in a DeFi protocol to receive rewards. These rewards can be a result of interest from...

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How can conversational search led by LLMs be monetised ? from 2023-10-03T13:28

Conversational search refers to the ability of search engines to understand and respond to user queries in a natural, dialogue-like manner, rather than relying solely on traditional keyword-base...

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What are neural networks and how do they work? from 2023-10-01T13:58:12

At its core, a neural network is a system of algorithms that attempts to recognise underlying relationships in a set of data through a process that mimics the way the human brain operates.

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How does Midjourney create images in real time? Understanding diffusion models from 2023-10-01T13:54:35

How does Midjourney create images in real time? Understanding diffusion models


While Midjourney’s model is proprietary and not documented as open source, it probably integrate...

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What are vector databases and how do they help AI tools like Chat GPT respond in real time? from 2023-09-30T13:35:50

Vector databases are specialized storage systems designed to handle high-dimensional vectors, enabling efficient similarity searches. Unlike traditional databases that rely on exact matches or k...

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8 key metrics to measure growth from 2021-07-22T13:24:53

If you are working in software and driving product or growth, then your life is pretty much a combination of metrics, measurement and excel sheets in between zoom calls.I have often wond...

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State of Venture Capital - 10 Macro Trends from 2021-07-20T14:04:26

While in Q2 of 2021, there were just 23 companies which got valued as Unicorns, by Q2 of 2022, that number had grown to  136 companies. A YoY increase of 491 %.

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The dystopia in tech - can we turn attention to intention? from 2021-07-18T14:46:38

The internet has connected all of us and while it has created tons of new opportunities and made life easier, it has also created a dystopian present where cancel culture, lack of privac...

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What are the triggers of scale to build a consumer startup from 2021-07-17T02:14:38

One thing that is absolutely critical about consumer apps, is that they require phenomenal scale and growth in a very small amount of time. Scale that cannot be bought by marketing, PR and paid ...

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Hidden metrics for email optimisation from 2019-02-23T12:55:14

While ESPs focus on the specific email delivered to your inbox, MSPs focus on your entire mailbox behaviour to determine where they would filter and place emails within your inbox (spam/ trash/ ...

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How do you use location data to build a better customer journey from 2019-02-22T18:50:05

For a long time marketers and advertisers believed that the real value of location data lay in targeting a specific individual in real time, but now it’s becoming secondary to finding insights i...

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Actiondesk - A cool new tool to automate your workflows using zapier and google sheets from 2019-02-18T15:50:44

If Google Sheets and Zapier had a kid, it’d be Actiondesk! Actiondesk lets you create and schedule automations that:

- Import data from various sources (database and business apps),

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Podsites - an easy web interface for all your podcasting needs from 2019-02-17T17:17:46

Your beautiful podcast website makes a great first impression when a new listener finds and plays their first episode, making sure that what they see and what they hear will blow them away (and ...

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