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Expected Performance of a Bloom Filter(lemire.me)
1 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 3y ago
I absolutely love LIGO. YC actually did a great interview with one of the lead physicists on the project where he described some of the technical hardware and software challenges - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D2j8nTjOZ4
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Markets.sh(markets.sh)
1 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 3y ago
This is always a startling fact about timelines.
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by epberry 3y ago
Unfortunately for you my favorite recent algorithms result uses AI as part of improving a very traditional algorithm. The paper is "Learned Index Structures" https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/08/the-c
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by epberry 3y ago
I'm glad to know this was actively studied.
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by epberry 3y ago
I know at AWS they drill into folks that spot capacity isn’t guaranteed capacity. I didn’t even think about more demand for spot reducing supply or additionally AWS just simply not investing in as much hardware to accommodate spot because o
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by epberry 3y ago
Usage-based pricing in the cloud is a blessing and a curse. To take best advantage of it you need a third party tool. At least, this is the thesis behind my current employer ( https://vantage.sh ).
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The Trouble with Giving Customers Access to Billing Data(vantage.sh)
2 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 3y ago
My personal next step with LLMs is to use them as completion engines versus just asking them questions. Few shot prompting is another intermediate skill I want to incorporate more.
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by epberry 3y ago
I have essentially given up the idea of discovering something meaningful. During my first company I believed we were on the cusp of unlocking some new methods of video action recognition. Now I know that our approach was way off and that th
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Novel Tasks(pid.vc)
2 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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Why Haven Healthcare Failed(hbr.org)
1 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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Storage.Market(file.app)
1 points by epberry 3y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 3y ago
The original promise of the cloud was that it was cheaper than on prem. For many companies this has turned out not to be the case. Having worked on a cost optimization product for the past year ( https://vantage.sh ) my belief is
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New Tools for Building with Generative AI on AWS(aws.amazon.com)
38 points by epberry 3y ago|5 comments
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Optimizing Large Language Models for Cost Efficiency(vantage.sh)
2 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI(tech.buzzfeed.com)
1 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 4y ago
Surprised to see cloud computing will be affected, but then again some analysts reported that AWS growth slowed to only 20% at the end of Q4. But based on what we are seeing they are still having a lot of success with on-prem to cloud migra
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by epberry 4y ago
Instead of one large prompt there's now 'system', 'user', and 'assistant' prompts which are meant to be given specific instructions each. So you could tell the system prompt that it's a librarian and
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Vantage Announces $21M Series A(vantage.sh)
1 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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Kubernetes Registry moving to AWS to reduce $150K per month egress charges(twitter.com)
2 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 4y ago
I think these were some of the first, smaller stores from Amazon Go and probably very expensive to operate. It makes sense the the larger stores with newer hardware would be better financially.
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by epberry 4y ago
Does anyone know of a decent GUI for managing settings/packages for NixOS?
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A Beginner's Guide to Ractors in Ruby(honeybadger.io)
3 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 4y ago
The archaeology content on HN is some of my favorite. I think what this find is getting at is more evidence that Sumerian civilization was more egalitarian than we may have thought if we projected our understanding of feudal civilizations a
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Migration process of MongoDB from x86 Intel to ARM based VM(mongodb.com)
2 points by epberry 4y ago|0 comments
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by epberry 4y ago
Appreciate these insights. I'm just getting into setting this up for my company.
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by epberry 4y ago
I have one more theory which is that quality has actually improved and therefore is not much of a differentiator. Everyone can get close to (but not really reach) a Stripe level of quality with their apps due to the amazing frontend librari
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by epberry 4y ago
Azure is seemingly the leader here but it might also be PR since they have "Confidential Computing" as a checkbox item on several of their VMs.

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