Searching for Aliens
summary
Uses the Drake Equation as a template and gives concrete claims: 10^22 stars is a dominant scale factor, a 110 MB download times US grid efficiency yields per‑install carbon, Spotify reports 20 billion updates in 2022 so a 1 MB change scales huge, order files and colocation of instructions yield 18% improvement to app launch for some large apps, protocol conformance checks can be quadratic when >100,000 conformances, industry bug rates run about 1–25 bugs per 1000 LOC, and Reaper and size analysis are built to find dead code and measure coverage.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Search for aliens
- 1:48Drake equation framework
- 3:33Software analogy to Drake
- 5:18App install carbon footprint
- 8:05App launch time scale
- 10:54Optimizing CPU instruction fetches
- 11:57Protocol checks quadratic scaling
- 15:28Bugs scale with code lines
- 16:54Write less code reduce bugs
- 19:40Finding scale factors in dev
- 21:24Summary
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