This is a cake I wanted to try after I visited Greece with my friends. I never had the name of the cake, but after that holidays I did dome research and I think I found the name, portokalopita. I’ve got a receipe, but then I did nothing.
So finally, I tried. The taste is similar but the execution is not great. Mine is too runny.
Ingredients
Syrup
1 1/2 cup orange juice (just squeeze it from oranges…. I didnt do it)
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cinnamon stick
Cake
180g phyllo sheets (I think I need double)
4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup olive oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
200g yogurt
2 tsp baking powder
orange zest from 2 medium oragnes.
Instructions
Preheat oven at 120C.
Place the phillo sheets on a tray. Cut them in slices so it easy to fit. Get them in the oven, until hard and crunchy. Turn them over when needed. Remove from oven and let is cool down
Make the syrup. In a small sauce pan mix the orange juice, water, sugar and cinnamon. Bring to boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 7 minutes. Set aside to cool
Set oven at 180C
In a large bowl add the eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla. Beat until frothy.
In a smaller bowl, mix the yogurt and baking powderand set aside for 2-3 minutes. Add the yogurt to the egg mix
Add the orange zest and crumbled phyllo into the egg mix gradually.
Grease an oven dish, and pour the cake mix. Even it out
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top is dark golden.
Remove from oven and make a few slashes with a knife and immediately drizzle the syrup slowly.
Let the cake sit for 2-3 hours.
Keep in the fridge for 1h before serving.
The result:
I think the syrup is too much and I my cake mix needed more phyllo
This is a tiny book I found in a toilet during holidays a couple of years ago. I bought a while ago and can’t find it anymore, this is one from the same author.
Fall in love (only when you can’t help it)
Dont forget that there are always consequences
When you get bucked off, get back on
Skin you own deer
If it breaks, fix it.
Never cut, what you can untie
If you make a mess, clean it up
Talk less and say more
Never betray a Trust
Make apologies, not excuses
Don’t get even, get over it
Dont waste good money on cheap boots
Help what you can; endure what you can’t
Do it Today, tomorrow is promised to no one.
Never miss a chance to Dance
Act right, behave yourself, do your job, and things will turn out all right
Take care of your knees; you are going to need them all your life
NVIDIA releases MRC: Multipath Reliable Connection – I assume they need to do something to compete with UltraEthernet
OSPF shutdown router: I would have test this. In my opinion, the key thing is although the router LSA1 is in the neighbors LSDB, SPF is ignoring it. Still quite interesting, you always learn/re-learn something.
Mark Manson – 10y therapy: I like the very beginning and then when Chris says you have to through shit to understand those rules and appreciate them.
JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture): LeCun against LLM. Proof.
Interesting book about the “start” of quant trading by Jim Simons. Funny he was a strong smoker and quick sharp and active till the end, great Mathematician and was code breaker! I didnt know anything about Renaissance. In part, it reminds me the book from Edward O. Thorp. It was weird that with so much tech and algorithms developed, in key moments, he didnt trust them. Reminds me to Nassim Taleb and the dark swans. Still he was never crashed and always made money. I always feel uneasy with this subject. Is it moral? The thing that surprise the most was the connections with Donald Trump by members of his company and Brexit election. But he supports and finance Democrats.
Eat the peel: After reading this, I started eating the kiwi’s peel. Not going back. I would like to do something with banana peels and oranges. But dont want to use a tone of sugar neither. I will try my spicy banana bread next time with peel. The orange peels you can keep it as aromatic when dried.
Virginia Air Space Museum: I was there 3 years ago I think. Amazing. You have a blackbird SR71, Concorde, Space Shuttle, etc. Totally worth visiting.
Fairwater: This is already old news in the AI datacenter world. But still interesting at high level.
Microfluidics: “Tiny channels are etched directly on the back of the silicon chip, creating grooves that allow cooling liquid to flow directly onto the chip and more efficiently remove heat”.
The process works in three stages. First, air is taken in from the surroundings and cleaned. Second, the air is repeatedly compressed until it is at very high pressure. Third, the air is cooled until it becomes liquid, using a multi-stream heat exchanger: a device that includes multiple channels and tubes carrying substances at different temperatures, allowing heat to be transferred between them in a controlled way.
“The energy that we’re pulling from the grid is powering this charging process,” says Cetegen.
When the grid needs extra energy, the liquid air is put to work. It is pumped out of storage and evaporated, becoming a gas again. It is then used to drive turbines, generating electricity for the grid. Afterwards, the air is released back into the atmosphere.
Infinibad HPC: This is a good intro for infiniband, it helped me to refresh the training I did two years ago
Designing HPC Cluster Infinibad: It seems more practicas as you have the different type of deployments based on required nodes. Avoid credit loops.
Do you want to be helped? – What’s this really about? Decision Making mindset. Lean into data and reasoning
What does everyone want? How will we make choices together?
How to figure out what this is really about? First, recognize that this is a negotiation. Next determine what does everyone want? Then how will we make choices together?
Do you want to be hugged? – How do we feel? Emotional mindset. Lean into stories and compassion
In a conflict, we learn why are fighting by discussing emotions.
In a conflict, we draw out emotions by proving we are listening.
In a conflict, we prove we are listening by looping for understanding: ask questions, summarize what you heard, ask if you got it right.
In a conflict, focus in controlling:
Yourself
Your environment
The conflict boundaries
Check mood and energy!
Do you want to be heard? – Who are we? Social mindset
We all posses social identities that shape how we speak and hear.
how to talk about who we are:
Draw out multiple identities
Put everyone on equal footing
Create a new group by building on existing identities
Be aware of this loop:
Telling someone they belong to a group they abhor -> triggers identity threat -> causes defensiveness -> prompts counter-attacks -> leads to telling someone they belong to a group they abhor -> loop
Before discussion:
What do you hope to accomplish?
How will this conversation start?
What obstacles might emerge?
When those obstacles appear, what’s the plan?
What are the benefits of this dialogue?
Rules:
Pay attention to what kind of conversation is occurring (above)
Share your goals, and ask what others are seeking: prepare for the conversation. Ask many questions!
Ask about others’ feelings, and share your own
Explore if identities are important to this discussion.
The examples of “The Big Bang Theory” (how do you hear emotions no one says aloud?,) the court case, guns ownership, anti-vax, COVID, football team, netflix (no-rules), etc are really good.
I read this ebook as I have watched this video some time ago.
This is his definition of Wealth
Wealth = Focus + (Stoicism * Time * Diversification)
Stoicism
This is the personality/philosophical part. You need to define and build your character. Take into account that luck is important (The world only pays attention to the outliers..) Exercise is important, make more decisions, create interdependency (the people that are around you and will make you better). Difficulties will be always there, go through them with enthusiasm (W. Churchill)
Focus
Focus in your passion ->Talent! Leave the passion for the weekend (baking, climbing, etc) And then the question, what is your talent? Myers-Briggs test, Galupo Chifton.
(I am INTJ it seems)
Be loyal to people not companies.
The importance: Real State, Professional Jobs (plumber, electrician, etc), prune + invest your hobbies
Time
It is limited, you can’t buy more. Make it count. Focus in compound vs inflation. You need to be ruthless in your time management. Income, spend, invest. If measured -> managed. Roll with the punches..
Diversification
Focus your time to maximize your current income. Diversify your investments to maximize your long-term wealth.
Long-term active investment doesnt beat the market.
Use a square baking pan, cover it with baking paper
Melt butter in a pan over medium heat. Butter will foam, bubble, and crackle. Keep stirring. Light sediment will appear. Keep stirring an reduce heat to low. Wait until sediment turns rich brown and butter smells nutty. Remove from heat.
Add salt and sugar, stirring to incorporate.
Add flour until well combined
Add water and form a dough.
Transfer dough to the baking pan. Try to press into an even layer. Prick all over with a fork.
Bake for 20-25 minutes, until evenly golden with slightly browned edges.
In the same pan as you did the crust. Add all filling ingredients except lemon juice and butter. Stir to combine.
Add lemon juice and mix.
Now cook over medium-low heat, stirring and scraping constantly.
When filling begins to thicken, reduce heat to low. Cook until is slightly thickened, and coats spoon.
Remove from heat. Add butter, mix until combine.
Strain filling onto baked crust. Tilt pan to spread evenly.
Bake for 20 minutes, until the filling is set. The filling should barely jiggle when the pan is shaken.
Allow the bars to cool down at room temperature before moving to the fridge.
You can serve later or next day. Cut with a clean knife.
I made several mistakes. I added the egg whites to the mix and I burned the egg mix so for that reason you see brown spots.
as-override: Compare the AS path of an incoming route with the AS number of the BGP peer in the group, and replace all occurrences of the peer AS number in the AS path with its own AS number before re-advertising the route to the peer.
remove-private: When advertising AS paths to remote systems, have the local system strip private AS numbers from the AS path. The numbers are stripped from the AS path starting at the left end of the AS path (the end where AS paths have been most recently added). The routing device stops searching for private ASs when it finds the first nonprivate AS or a peer’s private AS.
Matches the name of one or more communities. If you list more than one name, only one name needs to match for a match to occur. (The matching is effectively a logical OR operation.)
Prepending
+ term prefix-nonpreferred {
+ from {
+ prefix-list-filter prefix-migration orlonger;
+ }
+ then {
+ as-path-prepend 123;
+ as-path-expand last-as count 1;
+ next policy;
