🍔🧠 How Robinhood Wins at Trading (Graph Algorithms 101)

🍔 THIS WEEK’S MENU 🥗

📚 Software Engineering Articles

• How Robinhood uses graph algorithms to reduce fraud effectively.

• Explore why Cloudflare avoids containers in their Workers platform.

• Breaking down modular monolithic architecture blending tradition with innovation.

• Design a WhatsApp-like chat application for your next system design interview.

• Learn how Google Ads managed 4.77 billion users with SQL database innovation.

• 200+ hours of research on AI tools & hacks packed in 3 hours

🗞️ Tech and AI Trends

• OpenAI plans to use AMD chips for custom AI hardware by 2026.

• Palantir partnered with Anthropic to enhance government intelligence operations.

• OpenAI's o1 model leak reveals striking capabilities that surprise experts.

👨🏻‍💻 Coding Tip

• Use TypeScript's Discriminated Unions for better type safety and data modeling.

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Food for Thought
A mindset, an example, and an action item to start the week

Mindset: Limitless potential when you believe in your vision.

Example: Apple Inc. started as a simple idea in a garage and became a global tech giant.

Action: Write down one big goal you believe in and take one small step towards it today.

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The Rabbit Hole
Deep dives, trends, and resources curated to stay ahead

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The Weekly Digest
Software, AI, and startup news worth your time

🔧 OpenAI to Utilize AMD Chips, Eyes Custom Hardware by 2026 (2 min)

Brief: OpenAI's new hardware strategy includes adopting AMD chips via Microsoft Azure and plans to develop its own custom AI hardware by 2026, responding to growing competition in the AI chip landscape.

🚀 Palantir and Anthropic Join Forces to Enhance AI for U.S. Government (3 min)

Brief: Palantir teams up with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI models on AWS, improving intelligence and defense operations for the U.S. government.

🤖 OpenAI's O1 Model Leak Reveals Groundbreaking AI Capabilities (4 min)

Brief: A leak of OpenAI's O1 model showcases its superior reasoning skills and image analysis capabilities, stirring excitement prior to its official debut.

💰 Anthropic's Haiku 3.5 Sees Price Spike Amid Claims of Increased Intelligence (2 min)

Brief: Anthropic's Haiku 3.5 model experiences a 400% price increase, raising eyebrows as it claims to deliver superior intelligence compared to its predecessor, prompting concerns from users about competition and value.

The Quick Byte
One coding tip because you’re technical after all

This week’s coding challenge:

This week’s tip:

The use of TypeScript's Discriminated Unions (also known as Algebraic Data Types) can provide a powerful way to model complex data and improve the type safety of your application.

Wen?

• Modeling Complex Data Structures: Discriminated Unions are particularly useful when you need to represent a set of related, but distinct, data structures within a single type.

• Exhaustive Handling of Variants: The switch statement in the example ensures that all possible variants of the Shape type are explicitly handled, preventing unintended behavior or errors.

• Compiler-Enforced Type Safety: The TypeScript compiler can leverage Discriminated Unions to provide strong type checking, catching errors at compile-time rather than runtime.

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