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by ericb 3y ago
I can't shake the feeling that this is one is AI generated.
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by ericb 3y ago
A company went to the free weekly picnic and offered to chop-down the tree that provided the shade everyone was eating under "for free" so they could build themselves a picnic table, because they didn't feel like paying for
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by ericb 3y ago
What makes this fascinating to me is, these LLM's were trained on an internet filled with tons of examples of humans asking clarifying questions. Why doesn't the LLM do this? Why is the "next, most-likely token" neve
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by ericb 3y ago
That doesn't sound right. Bananas are generally the cheapest fruit in the US. Was this some sort of fancy energy bar? Were you in Hawaii or Alaska?
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by ericb 3y ago
> comparing it to phoenix on realtime stuff is like comparing a moped to an f16 Have you tested this? I ask because under the hood, Rails is using Faye, and Faye is using EventMachine. About 10 years ago I load tested Faye vs. Node in a
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by ericb 3y ago
> On the other hand Phoenix destroys Rails in any realtime scenario. The Rails realtime story is going to be radically improved in Rails 8! I've been using the Turbo beta, and it is magical. With 3 lines of code each, I made my inde
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by ericb 3y ago
But is there a way to stop that instance, though?
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by ericb 3y ago
When we evolved to SSO and subaccounts with various roles/access, there were resources running/used by different accounts. I would see the instance in the costs. But then, I'd try and find that instance, started by another de
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by ericb 3y ago
Very cool! Feature request: I have really struggled with turning the thing costing me money off in AWS. If, with the right master credentials, I could consistently and easily do that somehow, that'd be a 10x feature. If you made that
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by ericb 3y ago
That's a fair point. If they are autonomous and carrying out a mission on your behalf, perhaps they don't need to communicate back to be useful. Might still leave defense, advance scouting, resource location (a broad search), pans
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by ericb 3y ago
Exponential math is huge too.
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by ericb 3y ago
Curiosity. Scientific exploration. Detection. Defense. Finding a new home. Meeting the neighbors. We're already sending probes to Mars, so I imagine we would send VN probes if we had them, so it doesn't seem like much of a stretch
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by ericb 3y ago
The dinosaurs were dominant 250 million years ago. If humans had come first instead of dinosaurs and built von Neumann probes at that time, our probes could be saturating scores other galaxies--not stars, galaxies by now. That's wit
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by ericb 3y ago
> What if the time it takes to travel between stars is longer than most civilizations exist? The probe doesn't require its parent civilization to continue existing to keep working. It self-replicates. You don't have to "pi
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by ericb 3y ago
You don't aim a von Neuman probe anywhere. You use unbounded exponential math to send them everywhere as they are free . It seems like you might find the idea interesting if you look into the concept a bit closer.
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by ericb 3y ago
> withstand, say, a few million years in orbit > ...scale of industry They don't have to do that. The probe just has to make more "child probes" before it dies. You don't need a huge industry if they are self-repli
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by ericb 3y ago
Which one? They all seem more likely than not.
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by ericb 3y ago
We have observed exactly one sentient species, (ours) and it is sending probes already. There are 200 sextillion stars. For the opposite position (they shouldn't be here) to make sense, there has to be either no other civilizations, or
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by ericb 3y ago
If von Neuman probes are possible, and some percentage of civilizations create them, then at least von Neuman probes should be here. von Neuman probes solve the travel time, cost, and distance objections for ETI even if light speed is the
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by ericb 3y ago
If you'd like to write your load tests in Ruby (plain ruby or browser based), and use your own libraries (internal libraries, specs, ets) browserup does that: Ruby with browser: https://browserup.com/docs/en/l
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by ericb 3y ago
Testing should also be the author's declaration to the world about what they believe should be happen and when. Good tests give you insight into the mind of the author at the time. * When I add-to-cart, it should update the cart tota
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by ericb 3y ago
Can anyone suggest steps to extract notes and get them into a good open source alternative (and what that would be?)
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by ericb 3y ago
> I need you to send 5-10 million API calls per day to 20 different API’s … are you using Rails? Yes.
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by ericb 3y ago
Aren't the full set of these numbers definitionally "high performance"?
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by ericb 3y ago
CPU cost is the obvious driver of who will win in this space, ergo, the correct optimization is to rewrite in assembly.
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by ericb 3y ago
3.5 and 4 are radically different.
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by ericb 3y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to imply they can't--I just meant it could be "suggestion -> movie" which is nuts to consider.
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by ericb 3y ago
I have a compiler that eventually produces 10x faster bytecode than the current JRuby. It takes a bit of warmup time. The first command is "Let there be Light."
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by ericb 3y ago
Convincing AI with a human voice and evil script is used for scamming, at-scale. Conversational AI robocalls. AI finds its way into children's pets--a next-level tamagotchi. A company releases AI-powered talking pets for the elderly&#x
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by ericb 3y ago
The Rails app I scaled posted half a meg of JSON on every save-request every 10-15 seconds. In Rails, we parsed it, converted some parts into HTML nodes in Nokogiri, sanitized it, and saved it to both mysql and cassandra. It wasn't a p

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