Happy Pi Day! 🥧
It feels like the perfect day to share a short status update on our open-source project, Merka.cloud.
Lately, it has been exciting to watch how popular OpenClaw has become. In many ways, its rise validates the direction we’re heading, as it shares several similarities with Merka.cloud. However, the vision for Merka extends far beyond just building a personalized agent.
Overview # As AI continues to evolve at absolutely astonishing rate, I wanted to take it back to basics. If we make an assumption that programmers augmented by AI should be almost “Immediate Polyglots”, it makes more sense to revive age old battle of which Programming Language is the best. It is also something I keep reflecting on for myself in an effort to Never Stop Learning!
Overview # Part 3 of Next Programming Revolution series, reinventing distributing computing! Jump to Part 1 and then come back here. What does it take to Rethink distributed computing - notice I didn’t say Cloud computing, Merka aims to include your own (or company owned) devices as a First-Class citizens. The goal is to utilize your available compute/storage efficiently, and also avoiding the all too familiar “where did I leave that?…” syndrome.
Overview # As a continuation of my Programming Revolution series, today we explore one major area where Human Developers can still outperform the AI (IMHO)! Though, I believe this should be very much a collaborative effort due to AI’s ability to analyze vast amount of data (including sources) and find common concepts and ideas.
Overview (TLDR) # Composability is one of those longest and toughest challenges in software, and it doesn’t look to me as we have solved it just yet. Industry move to Virtualization and Containerization brought with it many benefits, but also additional overheads that we must keep in mind and analyze. In this part 1 of the series, I recount where we are and how we got here.
Overview # It has been a breakthrough year in Artificial Intelligence, and many industries are already transforming. Interestingly, Seems like Google missed the importance of their own AI research! Still - I would like to argue that No Other Company Today is better positioned to replace Search with AI agents. The closest competitor, in my opinion, is Apple - although currently their AI is really struggling.
TLDR # I discovered the amazing world of algorithmic trading probably about 10 years ago. I was already enjoying the exploration of market dynamics, their correlation with human psyche, economic cycles, and companies hype/performance. This post is my musings about AI impact on Black Box algo-trading, and even if one perfects their AI to make endless profits - is it ethical? No prior Quant expertise required to participate, but basic stock market understanding is a plus!
TLDR # Netflix again cancelled several of our favorite shows, me and the family are Fuming! In this post I explore what might be Netflix decision process, and try to identify potential flaws in it. At the end I offer some solution ideas, because I like to improve things, not just complain about things.
This is an early report on the new Zune software, since it just came out this Tuesday (two days ago). It is a major overhaul of Zune Firmware as promised, but the Desktop software redesign seems less dramatic.
