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Smartest people? Their tech stack is a dated cargo-culting of Google, hell, their newest thing is just using kubernetes with a thin wrapper. Their AI platform
by bobdole12345 8y ago
Smartest people? Their tech stack is a dated cargo-culting of Google, hell, their newest thing is just using kubernetes with a thin wrapper.
Their AI platform is a also ran in pretty much every aspect.
Where exactly are the smart people?
- arunv 8y ago1. Judging how smart the people there are by their tech stack is like judging how much horsepower a car has based on how many miles it has. 2. Even humoring that assumption, you’re conveniently forgetting React, Hive (+Hbase, hipal), presto, rocksdb, Cassandra, graphql, oauth 2, open compute, phabricator, hhvm, buck, and that’s just the open source stuff.
- bobdole12345 8y agoSorry, I stopped considering your argument when you claimed the HHVM wasn't anything other than a crime against humanity. PHP could have died, but no, it got a new lease on life. Hive is a bad copy of a google tech. Buck is a bad copy of a google tech. Hbase is a bad copy of a google tech. Rocks is cute, but it's a bit sad that it's at the center of literally everything in the company. Phabricator isn't bad, but it's a pretty close copy to things at google. And I think Google only joined the open compute initiative to try and talk facebook out of it's weird ideas.
- solidasparagus 8y agoFAIR is one of the most advanced AI research labs in the world. PyTorch has massively growing adoption because it is substantially better than the competitors and FAIR work consistently pushes the state of the art forward. Calling their AI work 'also ran' is ridiculous.
- bobdole12345 8y agoFAIR is just an advanced PUBLIC AI research lab. Just because they're the best ones talking about what they're doing, doesn't mean they're anywhere near the best.