2024: Year in Review and Looking Forward
2024 was the year in which we saw the capabilities of Large Langauge Models (LLMs) proliferate and mature in ways that no one has expected. We saw some historical security news and events happen as we keep learning how to keep systems secure when more of the world comes online. In here, I cover some of my favorite articles, podcasts, and books, as well as some of my (fun!) predictions for 2025.
News
CrowdStrike outage explained: What caused it and what’s next
Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?
The Release of NotebookLM by Google
Articles
By Default, Capital Will Matter More After AGI
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks
Why Are We So Afraid of Code as a Commodity
From Naptime to Big Sleep: Using Large Language Models To Catch Vulnerabilities In Real-World Code
How the Human Brain Contends with 0
Data engineering at Meta: High-Level Overview of the internal tech stack
Podcasts and Talks
Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks: What a Decade
Jensen Huang: Founder and CEO of Nvidia (Stanford GSB)